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Ils furent "les seigneurs du sang de France", "princes des fleurs de lys", seuls à pouvoir succéder au trône et à garantir la continuité dynastique de la royauté. Un sang doué d'une excellence particulière qui leur conférait un prestige propre. Mais il arrive que cette qualité suréminente entre en concurrence avec l'autorité du souverain, seul auteur de la loi et juge des hiérarchies temporelles. L'histoire de la monarchie est rythmée par des conflits nés de cette tension originelle entre deux systèmes de légitimité que le pouvoir royal n'a jamais vraiment réussi à apprivoiser. La proximité des princes avec le roi en fait des rivaux potentiels, enhardit des "malcontents" qui œuvrent pour un changement politique jusqu'à assumer leur devoir de révolte. D'où le dilemme que rencontrent tous les monarques : comment désarmer la dangerosité des princes sans diminuer l'ascendant de leur sang ? Ce livre explore l'histoire longue de cette ambiguïté, du Moyen Âge à la Révolution française, sur fond de conflits politiques, de querelles idéologiques, de frondes et de guerres civiles. Il met au jour les aménagements successifs entre un souverain absolu d'institution divine et des princes du sang qui se croient appelés à discerner l'ordre juste, avertir le monarque de ses manquements et le rappeler à la raison. On croise, chemin faisant, des personnalités singulières et des destins hors du commun, princes intrépides, princes philosophes, insoumis, séditieux, jusqu'au prince régicide qui votera la mort du roi.

Princes --- Rois et souverains --- Succession

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Rois et souverains --- Jacques --- Grande-Bretagne --- James

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The central argument of "The formation of the english kingdom in the tenth century" is that the english kingdom which existed at the time of the norman conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, and not by a vision of english unity going back to Alfred the Great (r. 871-899). In the first half of the tenth century, successive members of the Cerdicing dynasty established a loose domination over the other great potentates in Britain. They were celebrated as kings of the whole island, but even in their Wessex heartlands they probably had few means to regulate routinely the conduct of the general populace. Detailed analysis of coins, shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests that it was only around the time of Edgar (r. 957/959-975) that the Cerdicing kings developed the relatively standardized administrative apparatus of the so-called "Anglo-Saxon state". This substantially increased their ability to impinge upon the lives of ordinary people living between the Channel and the Tees, and served to mark that area off from the rest of the island. The sesultant cleft undermined the idea of a pan-british realm, and demarcated the early english kingdom as a distinct and coherent political unit. In this volume, George Molyneaux places the formation of the english kingdom in a european perspective, and challenges the notion that its development was exceptional : the Cerdicings were but one of several ruling dynasties around the fringes of the former carolingian empire for which the late ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a time of territorial expansion and consolidation.

Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Histoire --- Anglo-Saxons (peuple germanique) --- Rois et souverains --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire. --- Rois et souverains.

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Kings and rulers, Medieval --- Church and State --- Rois et souverains médiévaux --- Frédéric --- England --- Angleterre --- Kings and rulers --- Religious aspects --- Rois et souverains --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire --- Rois et souverains médiévaux --- Frédéric --- Religious aspects. --- Church and state --- Rois et souverains - Allemagne - Biographies --- Rois et souverains - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire

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After the Second World War, the question of the religious character of Germanic kingship was no longer prominent - not least because previously excessively hybrid views had been developed on the existence of a Germanic religious kingship. Now that in the meantime important insights have been gained into the practical exercise of power in the early kingdoms, it is time to enquire again into their ideological and religious foundations. The multiple perspectives developed in these papers lead to new insights which differ distinctly from earlier understandings of the early kingdoms. Above all, weight is added to the doubts about the existence of Germanic religious kingship. Die Frage nach dem Sakralcharakter des germanischen Königtums ist nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in den Hintergrund getreten - nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil zuvor allzu hybride Ansichten über die Existenz eines germanischen Sakralkönigtums entwickelt worden waren. Nachdem in der Zwischenzeit wichtige Erkenntnisse über die herrschaftspraktische Seite des frühen Königtums gewonnen werden konnten, war es an der Zeit, erneut auch nach dessen ideellen und religiösen Grundlagen zu fragen. Der multiperspektivische Ansatz der vorliegenden Beiträge führt zu neuen Einsichten, die sich vom älteren Verständnis des frühen Königtums deutlich unterscheiden. Vor allem werden die Zweifel an der Existenz eines germanischen Sakralkönigtums verstärkt.

Kings and rulers, Medieval --- Rois et souverains médiévaux --- Religious aspects --- Congresses. --- Aspect religieux --- Congrès --- Rois et souverains médiévaux --- Congrès --- Medieval kings and rulers --- Germanic people. --- history. --- religion. --- society. --- Rois et souverains --- Moyen âge