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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. The word Franconia, first used in a Latin charter of 1053, was applied like the words Francia, France, and Franken, to a portion of the land occupied by the Franks.
- History of Franconia
Duchy of Franconia around 800 AD Franconia between 919 and...
- Franconia
In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern...
- History of Franconia
The emergence of the Duchy of Franconia from "a position of leadership amongst the Frankish nation in the eastern kingdom" in the late 9th century is poorly documented. The first clear duke was Conrad the Elder , who was also Duke of Thuringia .
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 .
Franken. Key People: Georg Heinrich, Freiherr von Gortz. Eberhard. St. Kilian. Related Places: Germany. Bavaria. Baden-Württemberg. Rhineland-Palatinate. Hessen. 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.
