Kingdom of Arles

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Kingdom of Arles

The Kingdom of Burgundy or of Arles (Arelat) was a Frankish

Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
dominion surrounding Arles

Arles

Arles is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France, of which it is a Subprefectures in France, in the former Provinces of France of Provence....
, established in 933, by combining Upper

Upper Burgundy

File:Karte Hoch und Niederburgund EN.pngUpper Burgundy is the part of Burgundy east of the Jura mountains, but in fact encompassing both sides of the Jura mountains range....
and Lower Burgundy

Lower Burgundy

File:Karte Hoch und Niederburgund EN.pngLower Burgundy was a historical kingdom in Provence, in southeastern France. Lower Burgundy is sometimes called the Kingdom of Arelat or incorrectly the Kingdom of Cisjurane Burgundy....
. It was ruled by independent kings until 1032. After 1032, its existence was mostly de iure, its territory dwindling, until its remnants finally passed to France in 1378.

In 888, Rodolphe, Count of Auxerre

Auxerre

Auxerre is a Communes of France in the Bourgogne regions of France in north-central France, between Paris and Dijon. It is the capital of the Yonne Departments of France....
founded the kingdom of Bourgogne Transjurane (Upper Burgundy).

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The Kingdom of Burgundy or of Arles (Arelat) was a Frankish

Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
dominion surrounding Arles

Arles

Upper Burgundy

File:Karte Hoch und Niederburgund EN.pngUpper Burgundy is the part of Burgundy east of the Jura mountains, but in fact encompassing both sides of the Jura mountains range....
and Lower Burgundy

Lower Burgundy

Auxerre

Rudolph II of Burgundy

Rudolf II was king of Upper Burgundy , Lower Burgundy , and Italy . He was the son of Rudolph I of Burgundy, and it is presumed that his mother was his father's known wife, Guilla of Provence....
, who merged the two kingdoms into the new Kingdom of Arles (Arelat). In 937, Rudolph II was succeeded by Conrad of Burgundy

Conrad of Burgundy

Conrad the Peaceful was the king of Burgundy from 937 until his death. He was the son of King Rudolph II of Burgundy, the first king of a united Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia....
, "the Peaceful", who in 993 was succeeded by Rudolph III

Rudolph III of Burgundy

Rudolf III of Burgundy was the last King of Burgundy of an independent Kingdom of Arles. He was the son of Conrad of Burgundy, King of Burgundy and the last male member of the Burgundian group of the Elder Welfs family....
.

In 1032, King Rudolphe III died, and the Kingdom was inherited by Emperor Conrad II

Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor

Conrad II was the son of a mid-level nobleman in Franconia, Henry of Speyer and Adelaide of Alsace, who inherited the titles of count of Speyer and of Worms, Germany as an infant when Henry died at age twenty....
the Salian. Though his successors counted themselves kings of Arles, few went to be crowned in the cathedral. An exception was Frederick Barbarossa who in 1178 was crowned king of Arles by the archbishop of Arles. Most of the territory of the Lower Burgundy was progressively incorporated into France, while the eastern parts of Upper Burgundy were acquired by the houses of Zähringen

Zähringen

Z?hringen is the name of an old and influential Germany noble family, taken from the castle and village of that name. Z?hringen today is part of the city of Freiburg, which the dukes founded in 1120....
and Habsburg

Habsburg

The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
.

The Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the eleventh king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and Holy Roman Emperor.He was the eldest son and heir of John of Bohemia, who died on 26 August 1346, thus Charles inherited the Count of Luxembourg and the King of Bohemia....
in 1361 detached the County of Savoy

County of Savoy

The Counts of Savoy emerged, along with the mediaeval commune of Switzerland, from the collapse of the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy. Installed by Rudolph III, King of Burgundy, officially in 1003, the House of Savoy maintained independence as counts, and then as dukes ....
from the kingdom. In 1365 he was crowned king of Arles, but in 1378, he appointed the Dauphin of France (later King Charles VI of France

Charles VI of France

Charles VI , called the Well-loved and the Mad , was the List of French monarchs from 1380 to 1399, as a member of the House of Valois....
) as the permanent Imperial vicar

Imperial vicar

An Imperial vicar was a prince charged with administering all or part of the Holy Roman Empire on behalf of the Emperor. In the Empire's early centuries, imperial vicars were appointed from time to time to administer one of the Empire's constituent kingdoms of Germany, Italy or Arles....
of the kingdom. From then on, the Kingdom existed only on paper.

Literature

Marie-Luise Heckmann, Das Reichsvikariat des Dauphins im Arelat 1378.

Kingdom of Arles

Literature

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