... men" (geoguth) and "youths" (duguth). Warriors who as yet had no land resided with their lord. When the duguth had proved himself to the geoguth he would receive a suitable land endowment on which he could marry and raise a family. The duguth received their landed estates from the king and so bound themselves even more closely to their royal lord. Law codes were another institution designed ... present himself as conducting God's will. This did not necessarily stop problems of raiding church lands but it gave an ideological dimension to statecraft. The constitution and size of Frankish ...

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