Flemish Relics

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Exhausted by its triumph and mastered by its own allies, the empire fell from bad to worse, so that, in effect, the ruling power in Gaul was that of the Visigoths, who, seated in Toulouse, held the southern part. The Burgundians had the eastern portion, while that in the north was in the hands of the Franks, who ultimately conquered the other tribes and divided the entire province between the sons of their king. We shall confine ourselves to a sketch of the history Of the latter, because the people of the provinces which the Romans styled the Belgicae, came in for the inheritance of Cazsar, founded the political power of the akenric, or Freeland, and gave the impetus which produced France, to which, for many ages, Flanders was attached.