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As a tax in replacement of <em>fonsado</em> (the host service), <em>fonsadera</em> is analysed here in the context of military taxes and services, paying special attention to these phenomena in the Kingdoms of the Francs and the Empire. <em>Fodrum</em> and <em>servitium regis</em> as taxes linked to the provisioning of the king and his retinue, and their evolution towards a royal tax in cash. We will consider them as public forms of taxation that represent generic services due to the king, rather than the continuity of roman public taxation.