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It is said that the Frankish Kingdom was dividied to the Treaty of Verdun in 843 and to the Treaty of Mersen in 870 by sons of Ludovicus Pious. Consequentially, it became three nations which are France, Germany and Italy. Above all, the picture of this division of Frankish Kingdom was already proposed by Lotharius I, the eldest son of Ludovicus Pious, because he lost the battle of Fontenoy-en-Puisaye against Ludovicus II and Carolus II, on the June 25 in 841. But two brothers, Ludovicus II and Carolus II, refused to accept the proposal of their eldest brother, Lotharius I. Finally, on the February 14 in 842, they made their decision to form the political and military alliance against their eldest brother, Lotharius I in Strasbourg. What we called, it was the Strasbourg Oaths in 842. According to Nithardus, the abbot of Saint Riquier and the grandson of Carolus Magnus, Carolus II and Ludovicus II made the declarations in the lingua Teudisca and the lingua Romana respectively to each other’s followers. In other words, Carolus II addressed Ludovicus’s men in Frankish and Ludovicus addressed Carolus’s men in Romance. Up to now, the Strasbourg Oaths in 842 was considered as the historic event for informing the beginning or birth of two modern nations, France and Germany. But, in reality, we see that the principle of the divided succession and the confraternity was obviously succeeded to Divisio Regnorum in 806 and Ordinatio Imperii in 817. In this article, we examine the Strasbourg Oaths in 842 not as the beginning of two modern nations, France and Germany but as the performance showing dynamically the political operation with the divided succession and the confraternity in the 9th century.

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