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Lotharingia [1] 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 .
Pages in category "Lotharingia" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Lothair II (835 – 8 August 869) was a Carolingian king and ruler of northern parts of Middle Francia, that came to be known as Lotharingia, reigning there from 855 until his death in 869. He also ruled over Burgundy , holding from 855 just the Upper regions, and from 863 also the Lower Burgundy .
The kings and dukes of Lorraine have held different posts under different governments over different regions, since its creation as the kingdom of Lotharingia by the Treaty of Prüm, in 855. The first rulers of the newly established region were kings of the Franks. The Latin construction "Lotharingia" evolved over time into "Lorraine" in French ...
This category is for people from Lower Lotharingia a stem-duchy within the Holy Roman Empire that existed from 959-1190. It included most of the modern Netherlands, most of modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of what is now France and Germany.
Lotharingia sided with Charles III in 911, who was deposed in West Francia in 922 by Robert but remained king in Lotharingia, from where he tried to reconquer West Francia until being imprisoned in 923. In 923, Gilbert and Archbishop Ruotger of Trier invited the Ottonian king Henry I to invade Lotharingia.
The Duchy of Lower Lotharingia, [1] also called Northern Lotharingia, [2] [3] Lower Lorraine or Northern Lorraine (and also referred to as Lothier or Lottier [4] in titles), was a stem duchy of the medieval Kingdom of Germany established in 959, which encompassed almost all of modern Belgium, Luxemburg, the northern part of the German Rhineland province and the eastern parts of France's Nord ...
Otto then succeeded into the full dukedom. In 1002, at the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III , he was one of the loyal nobles who accompanied his body from Paterno to Aachen . According to the Chronica of Sigebert de Gembloux , he died in 1006, but he seems to be alive as late as 1012, when Count Godfrey II of Verdun succeeded to the duchy.