Lotharingia
9th- and 10th-century kingdom in Western Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lotharingia (Latin: Regnum Lotharii, Regnum Lothariense, Lotharingia; French: Lotharingie; German: Reich des Lothar, Lotharingien, Mittelreich; Dutch: Lotharingen) was a medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire. It comprised present-day Lorraine (France), Luxembourg, Saarland (Germany), Netherlands, most of Belgium, and Germany west of the Rhine. It was named after King Lothair II, who received this territory as his share of the Kingdom of Middle Francia which his father, Lothair I, had held.[1]
Kingdom of Lotharingia / Duchy of Lotharingia Lotharingia | |||||||||||||
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855–959 | |||||||||||||
Status | Kingdom (855–923) Duchy in East Francia (925–959) | ||||||||||||
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Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
King or Duke | |||||||||||||
• 855–869 | Lothair II | ||||||||||||
• 953–965 | Bruno the Great | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Medieval | ||||||||||||
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• Division | 959 | ||||||||||||
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Lotharingia resulted from the tripartite division in 855 of the kingdom of Middle Francia, which itself was formed after the threefold division of the Carolingian Empire by the Treaty of Verdun of 843. Conflict between East and West Francia over Lotharingia was based on the fact that these were the old Frankish homelands of Austrasia, so possession of them was a matter of great prestige as true claimant of Frankish imperial legacy.