Duchy of Franconia
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Was one of the stem duchies of the medieval German Kingdom.
Establishment
February 962: Franconia was one of the Stem Duchies of the Holy Roman Empire.
Chronology
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The Frankish Kingdom was partitioned and reuinited several times as the Frankish rulers used to divide their territories equally among their heirs. This lead also to a number of wars and revolts.
1.1.Incoronation of Otto I
East Frankish King Otto I was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor.
January 1001: In the 11th century, the Counts of the Niederlahngau region assumed the name Isenburg.
January 1001: The Gau counts in the Nahegau assumed the title Wildgrave.
January 1001: The Counts of Lauffen were a noble family from the High Middle Ages that ruled the middle and lower Neckar and parts of its hinterland from the 11th to the early 13th century.
January 1001: The family of Sponheim, or Spanheim (German: Spanheimer), has been documented since the 11th century.
January 1001: Wied County is mentioned for the first time in 1000.
January 1008: In 1007, the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg was established.
January 1038: Establishment of the County of Babenburg.
January 1055: Castell County is first mentioned in 1054.
January 1074: The Counts of Diez were first mentioned by name in 1073 in a deed of sale of goods in Bodenheim.
January 1079: The first evidence of Lechsgemünd Castle as the ancestral seat of the noble family also dates back 1078.
January 1086: In 1085, the Palatinate emerged from the County Palatine of Lotharingia.
January 1086: Eberstein County was mentioned for the first time in 1085.
January 1087: In 1085 the Prince-Bishopric of Speyer acquired the remainder of the Speyergau, a medieval county in the East Frankish (German) stem duchy of Franconia.
January 1097: Around 1230, Count Gottfried von Vaihingen (1189-1234) laid out the town of Vaihingen between Vaihingen Castle, which was mentioned as early as 1096 (today's Kaltenstein Castle) and the village near St. Peter's Church. In 1252, Vaihingen was expressly referred to as a town in a document.
January 1101: Establishment of the Hohenlohe County.
January 1101: In 1100 a noble named Heinrich named himself after the old Clingenburg.
January 1114: The first documented mention, which supposedly goes back to the year 1113, in which Adelbertus et Friedericus de Truhendingen appear, is probably not tenable. In 1129 they appear in a series of witnesses for the Bishop of Eichstätt.
January 1124: Lowenstein founded by Calw.
January 1124: The Wildbergers were first mentioned in a document in 1123 at their castle.
January 1129: Leiningen County is mentioned for the first time in 1128.
January 1131: Sigebert II became the first Count of Alsace in 1130 after the territory became the Landgraviate of Lower Alsace.
January 1132: In 1131, the Lords of Büdingen (Gerlacus et frater eius Ortswinus de Buedingen) were first mentioned.
January 1132: The Hessian counties (Maden/Gudensberg, Marburg area, up to the Westerwald) passed through marriage to the Counts of Ludowinger, who were raised to the ranks of Landgraves of Thuringia in 1131.
January 1133: Wertheim County is established as a branch of the Reginbodons.
January 1136: Establishment of the County of Württemberg.
January 1136: A first mention of the Falkenstein Lordship from 1135 refers to Sigbold von Falkenstein.
January 1139: Establishment of the Katzenelnbogen County.
January 1140: Sayn County is mentioned for the first time in 1139.
January 1144: In documents issued by the Archbishop of Mainz from 1122 two witnesses named after the castle of Wachenbuchen or simply "Buchen" (today part of the town of Maintal) are listed several times. They were Dammo of Buchen and his brother Siegebodo of Buchen. Dammo later called himself Dammo of Hanau. Hanau was a castle erected in a sharp bend of the Kinzig river a short distance before it flows into the Main river. The oldest mention of the castle dates to 1143.
October 1144: The lords of Schalkhausen and Dornberg are first mentioned on October 18, 1144 in a document by Bishop Embrico of Würzburg as a family called "Scalchusen".
January 1147: From 1146, Hugo V (1125-1152) would bear the title of count palatine (Pfalzgraf), as Hugo I of Tübingen.
January 1149: Erbach Lordship is mentioned for the first time in 1148.
January 1149: Ziegenhain County is mentioned for the first time in 1148.
January 1151: The town of Landstuhl became the center of the dominion of the same name in the middle of the 12th century.
January 1160: Runkel Lordship is mentioned for the first time in 1159.
January 1169: With the expansion of the fort in Rieneck in 1168, Count Ludwig I of Loon and Rieneck chose the castle and town of Rieneck as the center of his rule, which was soon referred to as the County of Rieneck.
January 1169: Würzburg Prince-Bishopric acquired East Franconia.
January 1169: In 1168, Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa probably transferred the bailiwick of the Amorbach monastery with extensive estates to his henchman Ruprecht, first mentioned in 1171, and thus set a counterweight to the bishop of Würzburg in the eastern Odenwald. Ruprecht had his administrative seat in Walldürn or moved it there and called himself de Durne (of Dürn).
January 1171: Gelnhausen is founded in 1170 as an imperial city by Frederick I Barbarossa.
January 1171: The Rhinegraves Domains gain imperial immediacy.
January 1175: Wittgenstein County is mentioned for the first time in 1174.
January 1181: Wetzlar is declared a Free Imperial City.
January 1181: Limburg becomes a lordship with coinage rights.
January 1182: Welzheim Lordship first attested in 1181.
January 1190: Foundation of the Calw County.
January 1191: Around 1190, Archbishop Philipp I acquired the castle of Itter with 200 hooves from Wittekind II von Schwalenberg for 200 marks for the Archdiocese of Cologne. The lords of Itter subsequently asserted themselves between their much more powerful neighbors by becoming dependent on them and thus also their protection in a number of ways.
January 1193: Nassau Domains gain imperial immediacy.
Disestablishment
January 1213: Solms County is mentioned for the first time in 1212.
