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Abstract: „The Meersen Treaty of 870 granted a large place to the royal abbeys in the sharing out of the ancient kingdom of Lothaire II. This treaty established a damper zone between the two kingdoms of the western Franks and eastern Franks, without Lotharingia losing its identity that reappeared under Zwentibold (895-900). The king paid then a very particular attention to the abbeys of Lotharingia in whose favour he delivered quite a number of diplomas. But his successors, while displaying their desire to integrate Lotharingia to their kingdom, were less preoccupied with establishing good relationships with the abbeys and bestowed more of their attention to their relations with the bishops who had now become the major relays of the territorial control of the kings over Lotharingia.“