| | | (1) (2) | +------------+-----------+--------------+ | | | | | | PHILIP IV. Charles, Louis, Margaret, Louis I., (the Fair) Count of Count of _m._ Edward I. Duke of Bourbon (1285–1314), Valois. Evreux. (_d._ 1342), _m._ Joan of | (ancestor of House Navarre. | of Bourbon). | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ | | +-+--------------+-------------+----------------+ | | | | | | LOUIS X. PHILIP V. CHARLES IV. Isabella, PHILIP VI. (1314–1316). (1316–1322) (1322–1328). _m._ Edward II. of Valois, King in 1328. CHAPTER V THE CLUNIAC REFORMATION (910–1073) AND ITALY IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY[5] End of the Dark Ages—Beginnings of the Cluniac Reformation—The Congregation of Cluny—Cluniac ideals—Camaldoli and Vallombrosa—Henry III. joins the Reformers—The German reforming Popes—Leo IX.—South Italy and Sicily in the Eleventh Century—The first coming of the Normans—Aversa—The sons of Tancred and the Conquest of Apulia—Robert Guiscard—Leo IX. and the Normans—Battle of Civitate—Early Career of Hildebrand—Nicholas II.—The Reform of Papal Elections—The Normans become Papal Vassals—Milan submits to Rome—Roger’s Conquest of Sicily—Feudalism in Southern Italy. [Sidenote: End of the Dark Ages.] The Dark Ages were well over by the middle of the eleventh century, and after a century of anarchy, even feudalism had become a comparatively tolerable form of government. The stronger military states had absorbed their weaker neighbours, and, beyond the Alps at least, the disintegrating tendency of feudal doctrine had received a decided check, not only in the strong monarchy of the Germans, but even in the growth of vigorous feudal potentates such as the margraves of the eastern frontier of the Empire, the dukes of the Normans, and the counts of Flanders or of Toulouse. There were again forces making towards order, law, and peace. The state had been saved from absolute annihilation.