Oscheret

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In antiquity, Oscheret (''pagus Oscarensis'', French ''pays d'Oscheret'') was the ''

pagus In ancient Rome, the Latin word (plural ) was an administrative term designating a rural subdivision of a tribal territory, which included individual farms, villages (), and strongholds () serving as refuges, as well as an early medieval geogra ...

'' (country) of the Lingones in the lower valley and plain of the Ouche. In the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

, the same region was a county (''comitatus'') of the

kingdom of Upper Burgundy The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy was a Frankish dominion established in 888 by the Welf king Rudolph I of Burgundy on the territory of former Middle Francia. It grew out of the Carolingian margraviate of Transjurane Burgundy (''Transjurania'', ) ...

and an archdeaconry of the diocese of Chalon-sur-Saône. Count Anscar and his family emigrated to Italy in the late 880s and he became Margrave of Ivrea there. History of Burgundy