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442 16. state, lordship and community in the west<br />

SCALE<br />

0<br />

0<br />

100 200<br />

100<br />

Nantes<br />

Saintes<br />

Bordeaux<br />

Bayeux<br />

Le Mans<br />

Angers<br />

Poitiers<br />

300 km<br />

200 miles<br />

Tours<br />

Angoulême<br />

Périgueux<br />

Agen<br />

Chartres<br />

Châteaudun<br />

Orléans<br />

Blois<br />

Bourges<br />

Toulouse<br />

Civitas<br />

Vellavorum<br />

Clermont<br />

Fig. 17 City territories <strong>of</strong> Gaul known (from Gregory <strong>of</strong> Tours’ <strong>Hi</strong>stories) to have raised troops in<br />

the sixth century<br />

were already enforcing this before their loss <strong>of</strong> southern Gaul, since ‘senators’<br />

(i.e. Roman landowners) fought for them at Vouillé (or Voulon) in<br />

507. 18 Italy, <strong>of</strong> course, was eventually divided between Lombards and<br />

Byzantines. 19 For the Lombard kingdom we lack early sources. All one can<br />

say is that, if any Roman landowners did survive the invasion period, they<br />

quickly came to be treated as an integral part <strong>of</strong> the kingdom and were<br />

expected, as in Gaul and Spain, to provide the same services for their kings<br />

as descendants <strong>of</strong> original Lombards. For Byzantine Italy, the situation is<br />

harder to read. Justinian’s wars had adverse effects upon the senatorial land-<br />

18 Visigothic Code 9.2: detailed laws on levying, esp. 9.2.8–9 which specify the liability falling on<br />

Romans as well as Goths. Vouillé/Voulon: Greg. Tur. <strong>Hi</strong>st. ii.37.<br />

19 During the interlude <strong>of</strong> Ostrogothic rule, many Romans served in garrison forces, but (with<br />

certain exceptions) field army service seems to have been reserved for Theoderic’s Gothic followers:<br />

Heather (1996) ch. 8.<br />

<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Hi</strong>stories Online © <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press, 2008<br />

Territories known to<br />

have raised troops

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