Example sentences of "[art] bald ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When the noblewoman Dhuoda saw off her fifteen-year-old son William to join Charles the Bald 's court in 841 , she gave him a book of advice .
2 Charles the Bald 's brother Louis , who ( though the Frenchmen of 1860 chose to forget it ) had fought alongside Charles at Fontenoy , was called rex Germaniae ( " king of Germany " ) by contemporaries who knew the classics , because his kingdom was ( like Caesar 's Germania ) " across the Rhine " .
3 This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou .
4 The point is important , because much of the modern secondary literature on Charles the Bald 's reign , and on the Carolingians generally , has depicted the aristocracy as greedy and boorish , incapable of sharing the higher aspirations of kings or clergy , lacking any sense of public interest .
5 Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success .
6 All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third .
7 The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily .
8 Such a neutralising of the grantor 's intentions was not something that evolved in Charles the Bald 's reign , a degradation of a once-pure system : rather , there was always , from the time when the earliest precarial grants are documented , a tendency for grants to be assimilated to hereditary lands , and then be passed along with those to the beneficiary 's heirs .
9 For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite .
10 He saw what he took to be Charles the Bald 's institutionalisation of hereditary countships in 877 as clinching his case .
11 Nowadays , for convenience , modern historians label Charles the Bald 's kingdom West Francia .
12 The so-called Annals of St-Bertin ( so called simply because one manuscript survived later in the Middle Ages at the monastery of St-Bertin ) were produced in Charles the Bald 's kingdom , more or less contemporaneously with the events they record , throughout Charles 's reign .
13 By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million .
14 It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom .
15 This raises one last point about the geographical distribution of the symptoms dealt with in this chapter : each can be found outside Charles the Bald 's kingdom ; but the syndrome of generalised cash-relations in the countryside , the proliferation of markets and mints , extensive activities of traders including small-scale ones in civitates , and a pattern of frequent royal residence in or near civitates , can be found only there — and specifically in the north-eastern part of the West Frankish kingdom .
16 Information of most political importance , such as news of the death of a king or queen , went astonishingly fast , both within Charles the Bald 's kingdom and , over great distances , between Carolingian kingdoms .
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