Principality of Northscaldia
Principality of Northscaldia | |||||||||
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| 465–888 | |||||||||
 Northscaldia within Europe since 465. | |||||||||
| Capital | Tournay | ||||||||
| Official languages | Medieval Latin Old Menapian Frankish | ||||||||
| Common languages | Old Menapian Old French | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Menapian • Northscaldian | ||||||||
| Government | Absolute monarchy | ||||||||
| Prince | |||||||||
• 465-511 | Clovis I (first) | ||||||||
| Legislature | None (rule by decree) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established as a principality as a result of the Battle of Ytanlaegh | 465 | ||||||||
• Independence after the death of Charles the Fat | 888 | ||||||||
| Currency | denier | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Northscaldland | ||||||||
The Principality of Northscaldia (Medieval Latin: Principatum Northscaldia, Old Menapian: Tyernauïth aech Northscaldia) or Northscaldia, was a principality on the coasts of northwestern Europe that existed in the Frankish Empire and then West Francia for over four hundred years until a brief struggle of independence after the instability caused by the death of Charles the Fat. It was one of the only Celtic-based entities in Europe after the beginning of the Early Middle Ages.
Originally, the are was inhabited by Menapii, Morinii, and Britons who came from the British Isles after the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. These group of people are referred to as Menapo-Britons. They attacked Childeric I's domain, the Salian Franks, in 461, starting the Franco-Menapian War, which lasted for four years until 465 when Childeric triumphed at the Battle of Ytanlaegh. He would then organise the area into a principality for his son, Clovis I, to rule. Clovis would then become ruler of the whole kingdom of Francia after his father died in 481.