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We might expect, therefore, that theories about the nature of 'comital' power would develop more rapidly at times of political crisis, when this normal working relationship broke down.

Bonnassie or myself, who insists on a structural continuity so profound that Viking raids, dynastic changes, failures of comital justice, the multiplication of castles and violences, and so on, seem like ripples on a placid surface.

Having cautiously balanced support for the French king with regional obligations towards the dukes of Brittany in the early 1400s, the Laval barony was elevated to comital status by the king in 1429.

The counts of the twelfth century replaced the hereditary feudal viscounts who acted as prosecutors of comital justice in the cities and rural districts or kasselrijen of the county with comital bailiffs they could appoint and remove.

Similar movements initiated by martial impulses are recorded in Maria Branco's coverage of Portugal where, in the twelfth century, Count Alfonso was elevated to the throne; in the process, his comital advisors became royal ones overnight.

In twelfth-century Languedoc, the alliance between Church and state that marked the growth of comital and royal power in northern France failed to develop because of the political fragmention of the region.