United Marches
In 886, both Hugh of the Breton march and Henry died. Charles replaced them with Odo and Berengar II respectively. Finally, in 911, Robert II, the Breton margrave, was granted the Norman march and the two entities became permanently united. Robert took the title of demarchus. In that same year, Charles the Simple, by the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, granted the Viking leader Rollo the county of Rouen, the basis of the future Duchy of Normandy. Rollo later also took the title demarchus.
The Normans gradually expanded their territory and incorporated much of Neustria into it. When the margrave of Neustria became king in 987, the history of the march ended, to be replaced by the history of the various comital fiefs which were to rise in power within it.
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