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State · 511 – 751

Neustria

A state of 511 – 751 — 240 years in Europe. It replaced Kingdom of Soissons. It was replaced by Kingdom of France. Its line of rulers holds 14 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
240 years
511 – 751
Rulers
14
the king of Franks
Most ground
130,900 km²
in 724
Map: Neustria in 724, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Neustria in 724, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 130,900 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Soissons: 457 – 486Kingdom of France: 987 – 1791Neustria: 511 – 751

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

Rulers

The line of king of Franks.

Dagobert II · 6 – 679 · no death date to read the end againstChlodomer · 511 – 524 · no death date to read the end againstChlothar I · 524 – 558 · no death date to read the end againstChilperic I · 561 – 584 · no death date to read the end againstDagobert I · 623 – 634 · no death date to read the end againstClovis II · 639 – 657 · no death date to read the end againstChlothar III · 657 – 673 · no death date to read the end againstChilderic II · 662 – 675 · killed, the article saysTheuderic III · 673 – 673 · left office aliveClovis III · 675 – 675 · no death date to read the end againstTheuderic III · 675 – 679 · left office alivePepin of Herstal · 687 – 695 · no death date to read the end againstChilperic II · 715 – 719 · left office alivePepin the Short · 741 – 751 · no death date to read the end againstChilderic III · 743 – 743 · no death date to read the end against550600650700750
killed, executed or dead in battleleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Dagobert II6 – 679673 yearsending not on record
Chlodomer511 – 52413 yearsending not on record
Chlothar I524 – 55834 yearsending not on recordsibling
Chilperic I561 – 58423 yearsending not on recordchild
Dagobert I623 – 63411 yearsending not on recordgrandchild
Clovis II639 – 65718 yearsending not on recordchild
Chlothar III657 – 67316 yearsending not on recordchild
Childeric II662 – 67513 yearskilled, the article saysread from the ruler's own articlesibling
Theuderic III673 – 673under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alonesibling
Clovis III675 – 675under a yearending not on recordnephew or niece
Theuderic III675 – 6794 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Pepin of Herstal687 – 6958 yearsending not on record
Chilperic II715 – 7194 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Pepin the Short741 – 75110 yearsending not on record
Childeric III743 – 743under a yearending not on record

14 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 6 – 751. Median reign 11 years. 4 of 14 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

731

130,900 km² in 731. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood240 years

    stood longer than 68% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held130,900 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 51% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median11 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record14

    has more rulers on record than 87% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Kingdom of Soissons · Linked · 457 – 486Kingdom of SoissonsNeustria · 511 – 751NeustriaKingdom of France · Linked · 987 – 1791Kingdom of France50010001500
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q106577 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.