One group of kingdoms was founded under cover of a legal fiction;
the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, and the Burgundians claimed to be
the allies of the Empire. At one time or another they obtained the
recognition of Constantinople for their settlements. Their kings
accepted or usurped the titles of imperial administrators, stamped
their coins with the effigies of the reigning Emperor, dated their
proclamations by the names of the consuls for the year, and in many
other ways flaunted their nominal subjection as the legal basis of
their actual sovereignty. This fiction did not prevent them from
governing their new dominions in true Teutonic fashion, through
royal bailiffs, who administered the state demesnes, and military
officers (dukes, counts, etc.) who ruled with autocratic sway over
administrative districts.
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