THE CHURCH DOOR, SAINTES MARIES.
By Joseph Pennell.
The first Section gives 127 years of Carlovingians till 879, when we enter upon the important era of the Kings of Arles and Burgundy, and the beginning of Provence as an independent territory.
Here again we have three Sections:—
- Kings of Arles of the 1st Race,
- Kings of Arles of the 2nd Race,
- Kings of Arles of the 3rd Race,
the latter also being Kings of Burgundy.
Book III. treats of the "Kings of Arles (without property in Provence or Burgundy)."
Section I.—Kings of Arles, high sovereigns, relatives, and heirs testamentary of Rudolph the last King of Arles and Burgundy.
Section II.—Kings of Arles calling themselves high Sovereigns "en qualité d'Empereurs estimant que ce royaume a esté uny a l'Empire."
There were 254 years of this dispensation, and among these rulers occur the names of the Emperor Lothair II., Frederick Barbarossa, and so forth.
Then comes the division into "Fiefs of the Kingdom of Arles."