Editing Neustria (section)

==Carolingian march==
{{main|Marches of Neustria}}
In 861, the [[Carolingian dynasty|Carolingian]] king [[Charles the Bald]] created the [[Marches of Neustria]] that were ruled by officials appointed by the crown, known as [[wiktionary:Warden|warden]]s, [[prefect]]s or [[margrave]]s. Originally, there were two marches, one against the [[Bretons]] and one against the [[Norsemen]], often called the Breton March and Norman March respectively.

In 911, [[Robert I of France]] became [[margrave]] of both Marches and took the title ''demarchus''. His family, the later [[House of Capet|Capetians]], ruled the whole of Neustria until 987, when [[Hugh Capet]] was elected to the kingship. The subsidiary counts of Neustria had exceeded the [[margrave]] in power by that time and the peak of Viking and Breton raiding had passed. After the [[Capetian Miracle]], no further margraves were appointed and "Neustria" was eclipsed as a European political term (present, however, in some Anglo-Norman chronicles and revived as synonymous with English possession of Normandy under Henry V by the St. Albans chronicler Thomas Walsingham in his Ypodigma Neustriae).