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The Salian counts in
Rhenish Franconia were sometimes mentioned as Franconian dukes and they became Germany's royal and imperial dynasty in 1024. In 1093 their Franconian territories were granted as a fief to the
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and Worms, the latter two being the administrative centres of countships within the hands of the Salian descendants of Conrad the Red. These counts were sometimes referred to as the Dukes of
Franconia.
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Emperor Conrad II was last to bear the ducal title. When he died in 1039, Rhenish
Franconia was governed as a constellation of small states, including the cities of
483:. King Otto did not appoint a new duke of Franconia, and the duchy was fragmented into several counties and bishoprics, which reported to the German kings directly.
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563:). Alongside these powerful entities were many smaller, petty states. In 1093, Emperor Henry IV gave the Salian territories in Rhenish Franconia as a
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Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig/Vienna 1885–1892, p. 491.
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The territory of the Duchy of
Franconia was the part of the core Frankish realm of Austrasia which did not pass to
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in
Eastern Franconia, Rhenish Franconia was divided and extinguished. Its territories became part of the Imperial
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428:(i.e. "Eastern Francia"), and got its form when the northwestern parts of Austrasia became a new realm called
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As of the 13th century, the following states, among others, had formed in the territory of the former Duchy:
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Unlike the other stem duchies, Franconia did not evolve into a stable political entity, though the local
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seized the
Franconian stem duchy after an unsuccessful revolt of Duke Eberhard was shattered at the 939
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His Royal
Highness the Duke of Bavaria, Duke in Swabia and Franconia, Count Palatine of the Rhine
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Located in the centre of what was to become the German kingdom about 919, it bordered the stem
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Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100–1250
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in 1814, the kings assumed the ducal title. The present head of the House of
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726:(died 906) is sometimes treated retrospectively as the ruler of Franconia
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emerging in the early 10th century. The word
Franconia, first used in a
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772:(died 1105), called himself "Duke of Franconia" towards his death
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and was succeeded as Franconian duke by his younger brother
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and most other parts of Franconia became part of the
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786:In 1168 the duchy of Franconia was bestowed by the
475:succeeded Conrad as German king. Henry's son King
424:, when it was a part of the core Frankish realm of
344:on the left bank of the Rhine around the cities of
318:, the adjacent southern parts of the Free State of
749:(985–1004), called "duke of the Franks of Worms" (
866:
955:
439:counts held large estates in the western parts (
822:(born 1933) is still traditionally styled as
778:(1116–25), titled "duke of the East Franks" (
387:in the southeast. It was located in Germany.
420:The duchy evolved during the decline of the
272:charter of 1053, was applied like the words
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298:It stretched along the valley of the River
286:, to a portion of the land occupied by the
240:Western and Eastern Franconia, about 1000
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591:in 1168 granted the ducal title to the
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651:County Palatine of the Rhine
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176:Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg
16:Medieval Frankish stem duchy
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702:Coat of arms of Franconia
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792:Bishopric of Würzburg
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611:Bishopric of Würzburg
557:Landgraviate of Hesse
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642:County of Löwenstein
597:Upper Rhenish Circle
589:Frederick Barbarossa
585:Electoral Palatinate
497:Electoral Palatinate
397:History of Franconia
308:March of the Nordgau
162:Electoral Palatinate
796:secularized in 1803
788:Emperor Frederick I
671:County of Vaihingen
626:County of Henneberg
481:Battle of Andernach
379:) in the west, the
306:up to the Bavarian
119:• Established
812:Kingdom of Bavaria
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681:County of Wildberg
676:County of Wertheim
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958:Categories
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555:; and the
362:Palatinate
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96:Government
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907:Franconia
873:Lyon 2012
776:Conrad II
770:Frederick
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561:Thuringia
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513:Henry III
509:Conrad II
469:Ottonians
445:Conradine
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320:Thuringia
316:Franconia
294:Geography
79:Religion
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741:Eberhard
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