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Western and Eastern Franconia, about 1000. The Duchy of Franconia (German: Herzogtum Franken) was one of the five stem duchies of East Francia and the medieval Kingdom of Germany emerging in the early 10th century.
- History of Franconia
Duchy of Franconia around 800 AD Franconia between 919 and...
- Franconia
At the beginning of the 10th century a Duchy of Franconia...
- History of Franconia
Following the fragmentation of the Eastern Frankish kingdom in the late ninth and early tenth centuries, Franconia emerged as a large stem duchy while the Germanic Roman empire was being formally secured by purely German rulers in favour of the former Frankish rulers.
The territory of the Duchy of Franconia was the part of the core Frankish realm of Austrasia which did not pass to Middle Francia / Lotharingia following the Treaty of Verdun. The Duchy of Franconia ( German: Herzogtum Franken) was one of the five duchies of East Francia. It existed from 882 – 1125 .
Franconia, one of the five great stem, or Stamm (tribal), duchies—the other four being Saxony, Lotharingia (Lorraine), Swabia, and Bavaria—of early medieval Germany. Today it is divided between Rhenish Franconia, now located in the Länder (states) of Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and
Emergence and location. As early as the Middle Ages, Franconia had very close links to king and empire. Located between the Rhenish territories of the empire and the Kingdom of Bohemia, Franconia, which included the former Duchy of Franconia, had been one of the centres of empire for a long time.
