Provençal diplomacy peaks in the Middle Ages, with 10 dates out of 18, against 3 in Antiquity, a single one in the early modern period and 4 in the contemporary era. This is the age of negotiation between barbarian kingdoms, such as Theodoric selling his neutrality to the Burgundians in 523, then of comital alliances sealed by marriage, before the last border adjustments, the annexation of Menton and Roquebrune in 1861 and the reattachment of Tende and La Brigue in 1947.
This map links these negotiations at Marseille, Arles, Aix and Rome, around figures such as René of Anjou, Louis IX or Marguerite of Provence.
What the corpus attaches to this theme
Places most present : Marseille, Provence, Italie, Arles, Aix, Rome, Avignon, Nice
Figures most present : René d'Anjou, Raimond VII de Toulouse, Frédéric II, Louis IX, Charles Ier d'Anjou, Raimond Bérenger V, Othon, Marguerite de Provence
Antiquity
387 BC
After the taking of Rome by the Gauls, the people of Marseille help the Romans pay the tribute demanded by the victors
125 BC
The Salluvii attack the Massaliotes on their territory, with the support of the Vocontii; Marseille appeals to Rome for help and the Senate sends the consul M. Fulvius Flaccus
500
Clovis attacks the Burgundians, prevails at first then fails before Avignon; Alaric II intervenes as mediator
523
Ostrogothic advance as far as the Isère; Theoderic buys Burgundian neutrality with what they still held in Provence, all of Provence passes to the Ostrogoths
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Middle Ages
843
Treaty of Verdun, Provence granted to Lothair
11 May 878
Boson and Ermengarde receive Pope John VIII at Arles
August 928
Provisional division of influence between Raoul, king of France (Viennois and the north), and Hugh of Arles (Provence)
end of 934
Hugh of Arles cedes to Rudolph II of Transjurane Burgundy all his rights west of the Alps
1125
Treaty dividing the county between the count of Toulouse and Raimond Bérenger, marquisate north of the Durance and county south of it
1162
Recognition of the title of count of Provence for Raimond Bérenger III
8 January 1215
Vicariate of the kingdom of Arles and Vienne granted by Frederick II to Guillaume de Baux
1229
Treaty of Meaux-Paris, passage of the marquisate to the papacy
21 February then 24 March 1239
Raimond Bérenger receives the homage of the archbishops of Aix and Arles, then Gregory IX excommunicates Frederick II
22 March 1309
Agreement between Charles II and Bertrand IV, prince of Baux, on the rights of the kingdom of Arles
4 June 1365
Coronation of Charles IV of Luxembourg as king of Arles at Saint-Trophime, guaranteeing Queen Jeanne her rights over Provence
21 October 1387
Chapters of peace confirming the pre-eminent place of Aix and the second Angevin dynasty
6 August 1388
Dedition of Nice, Puget-Théniers, the Lantosque valley and the bailliage of Barcelonnette to the count of Savoy
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Early modern period
early January 1596
Secret instructions from Henri IV to Étienne Bernard to secure Casaulx's rallying, offers conveyed and left unanswered
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Contemporary period
1815
The county of Nice falls back under Piedmontese control
1860
Treaty of Turin: definitive attachment of the county of Nice to France, recreation of the department of Alpes-Maritimes
1861
Annexation of Menton and Roquebrune
1947
Attachment of Tende and La Brigue to France, ending 559 years of division of Provence that had begun in 1388
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