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It was founded in 959 following the division of Lotharingia into two separate duchies: Upper and Lower Lorraine, the westernmost parts of the Holy Roman Empire. The Lower duchy was quickly dismantled, while Upper Lorraine came to be known as simply the Duchy of Lorraine.
Nestled between France and the Holy Roman Empire, the Duchy of Lorraine experienced a turbulent existence during the early modern period. Lorraine was an irrational patchwork of different sovereignties and jurisdictions.
Lorraine later was ruled as the Duchy of Lorraine before the Kingdom of France annexed it in 1766. From 1982 until January 2016, Lorraine was an administrative region of France.
By the early 12th century, the duchy of Lower Lorraine was being rivaled by the growing countships of Limburg, Hainaut, Leuven, and Namur; and in 1190 the reigning duke dropped the title duke of Lothier (i.e., Lower Lorraine) and took that of duke of Brabant, as Henry I (died 1235).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
It was founded in 959 following the division of Lotharingia into two separate duchies: Upper and Lower Lorraine, the westernmost parts of the Holy Roman Empire. The Lower duchy was quickly dismantled, while Upper Lorraine came to be known as simply the Duchy of Lorraine.
Kings of LotharingiaAD 855 - 925. Lotharingia was created out of the Middle Frankish kingdom of Lothar I, and eventually became a satellite state, and later duchy of France. It included territory which later emerged as the county of Luxemberg.
Spain recovered its former possessions, Naples and Sicily, and France’s price for accepting Augustus III as the uncontested king of Poland was to gain control of the Duchy of Lorraine. The territory was ceded to Stanislaw Leszczyński on the basis that following his death it would revert to France, assuaging French concerns that Lorraine ...
