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

divided between members <strong>of</strong> the intruding freemen classes. As we have<br />

seen, however, the importance <strong>of</strong> the freemen class was eventually eclipsed<br />

everywhere by the rise <strong>of</strong> a stable class <strong>of</strong> larger landowners, perhaps by as<br />

early as c. 600 in the Frankish kingdom, although actual manorialization<br />

may have followed rather later. It remains an open but interesting question<br />

whether surviving manorially organized late Roman estates presented the<br />

more powerful freemen among immigrant groups with exciting new ideas<br />

about how to extend their social pre-eminence.<br />

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

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