Neustriann.adj.
/ˈnjuːstrɪən/, U.S. /ˈn(j)ustriən/ A. n.
A native or inhabitant of Neustria, the western part of the Frankish empire (lying roughly west of the Meuse and north of the Loire rivers) in the Merovingian period.The name Neustria later became restricted to a smaller area and, by the 11th and 12th centuries, was sometimes applied just to Normandy.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of medieval states > [noun]
Lotharingian1607
Neustrian1647
Ottonian1852
1647 J. Hare St. Edwards Ghost 14 What [were] his Argyraspides, his gallant followers the Normans, but a people compacted of the Norwegians and Nuestrians [sic].
1794 W. Beckford Hist. France I. vi. 104 The Austrasians..assisted by the Neustrians..drove him from the throne, and raised Childeric..to the sovereignty.
1849 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 133 The infant king could do nothing after the death of his mighty nobleman; and Pleatrude, the infant's grandmother, was unable to stay the tide of destruction which the Frisons, Neustrians, and Saxons, bore over her German possessions.
1917 Mod. Lang. Notes 32 341 The Abbot of St. Albans had been for some years supporting the appointment of Neustrians to the gifts of his monastery, even to the detriment of that church.
1927 O. M. Dalton Gregory of Tours's Hist. of Franks I. ii. ii. 165 We are told that Charles addressed his Neustrians in ‘Roman’.
1951 B. North & R. North tr. M.-M. Martin Making of France iv. 37 Aquitanians fought with Neustrians, and Austrasians with Burgundians in battles in which the unity of Roman Gaul was undone.
1975 F. Heer Charlemagne & his World i. 16 After Ebroin was murdered..Pepin defeated the Neustrians in battle.
1992 J. Nelson Charles the Bald 121 Lother..sent envoys to talk of peace while still trying to reconstruct an alliance with Neustrians, Bretons and Pippin of Aquitaine.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Neustria or its inhabitants.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > France or Frankish land > [adjective] > Frankish
Neustrian1861
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of medieval states > [adjective]
Lotharingian1635
long-haired?1645
Neustrian1861
Ottonian1896
1861 N. Amer. Rev. 92 447 We see the completeness of the revolution when we find the Neustrian bishops, in their address to Louis-le-Germanique, in 858, boldly declaring that, unlike laymen, they were not obliged to perform any act of homage or to take any oaths.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. i. 9 The Austrasian domination was more purely Germanic than the Neustrian which it superseded.
1918 A. Hassall France Mediaeval & Mod. i. 6 In spite of the efforts of Ebroin, the Neustrian Mayor,..the tendency of Austrasia and Burgundy towards independence was too strong to be resisted.
1927 O. M. Dalton Gregory of Tours's Hist. of Franks I. ii. ii. 168 The Neustrian army of Charles was harangued in the Latin vulgar tongue.
1968 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 302/1 In the later Merovingian period the names Neustria and Francia were used interchangeably by Neustrian writers to designate the kingdom of which they were subjects, thus betraying their conviction that Neustria formed the heart and core of the Frankish lands.
1991 Antiquity 65 885/1 This is a typical illustration of a category of ceramic wares made in various Neustrian pottery centres in late Merovingian and early Carolingian times.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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