In medieval historiography, West Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks (Latin: regnum Francorum occidentalium)...
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the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Latin: Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was...
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Charlemagne (redirect from King Karl of West Francia)
the Frankish kingdom was divided and eventually coalesced into West and East Francia, which later became France and Germany, respectively. Charlemagne's...
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with East Francia becoming (or being) the Kingdom of Germany and West Francia becoming the Kingdom of France. The term orientalis Francia originally...
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List of French monarchs (redirect from King of West Francia)
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several...
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the case with West Francia (which became the Kingdom of France) and East Francia (which became the Kingdom of Germany). Middle Francia was situated between...
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successor states: West Francia (843–987), becoming the Kingdom of France, see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France; Middle Francia (843–855), splitting...
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Robert I of France (redirect from Robert I of West Francia)
Robert I (c. 866 – 15 June 923) was the elected King of West Francia from 922 to 923. Before his election to the throne he was Count of Poitiers, Count...
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Lothair of France (redirect from Lothair of West Francia)
called Lothair II, III or IV, was the penultimate Carolingian king of West Francia, reigning from 10 September 954 until his death in 986. Lothair was born...
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Rudolph of France (redirect from Rudolph of West Francia)
position to resist. In 924 Vikings made a fresh series of raids into West Francia. From the Loire Valley they threatened Hugh the Great, brother of Queen...
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Kingdom of France (section West Francia)
Carolingian Empire into three parts, with Charles the Bald ruling over West Francia, the nucleus of what would develop into the kingdom of France. Charles...
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Charles the Simple (redirect from Charles III of West Francia)
the Straightforward (from the Latin Carolus Simplex), was the king of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the king of Lotharingia from 911 until 919–923...
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Charles the Bald (redirect from Charles II, King of West Francia)
6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), King of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire...
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Louis the Stammerer (redirect from Louis II of West Francia)
846 – 10 April 879) was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Emperor Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of...
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Louis III of France (redirect from Louis III of West Francia)
Louis III (863/65 – 5 August 882) was King of West Francia from 879 until his death in 882. Despite questions of his legitimacy and challenges against...
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Lotharingia (section Middle Francia, 843–855)
and Germany west of the Rhine. It was named after King Lothair II, who received this territory as his share of the Kingdom of Middle Francia which his father...
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Henry the Fowler (redirect from Henry I of East Francia)
from 912 and the king of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936. As the first non-Frankish king of East Francia, he established the Ottonian dynasty...
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Carolingian dynasty (section Ruling Francia)
regna of the Empire by 888. They ruled in East Francia until 911 and held the throne of West Francia intermittently until 987. Carolingian cadet branches...
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King Lothair of West Francia (France) launched a surprise attack on Aachen, almost capturing the Emperor Otto II, king of East Francia (Germany) and of...
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Louis V of France (redirect from Louis V of West Francia)
known as Louis the Do-Nothing (French: Louis le Fainéant), was a king of West Francia from 979 (co-reigning first with his father Lothair until 986) to his...
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List of French royal consorts (redirect from Queen consort of Western Francia)
of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared. Living wives...
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Carolingian Empire (redirect from Carolingian Empire of Francia)
empire was roughly between 10 and 20 million people. Its heartland was Francia, the land between the Loire and the Rhine, where Aachen, which Charlemagne...
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Carloman II (redirect from Carloman II of West Francia)
Carloman II (c. 866 – 6 December 884) was the King of West Francia (future France) from 879 until his death. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he and...
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Odo of France (redirect from Odo of West Francia)
Odo (French: Eudes; c. 857 – 1 January 898) was the elected King of West Francia from 888 to 898. He was the first king from the Robertian dynasty, the...
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Louis IV of France (redirect from Louis IV of West Francia)
called d'Outremer or Transmarinus ("From overseas"), reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only...
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(French: Robert le Fort; c. 830 – 866) was the father of two kings of West Francia: Odo (or Eudes) and Robert I of France. His family is named after him...
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powerful nobles serving under the Carolingian dynasty of Charlemagne in West Francia, which later became France. As their power increased, they came into...
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south, and the Kingdom of Provence in the west. West and East Francia soon divided up the area of Middle Francia. The idea of a "King of the Franks" (Rex...
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Louis the Pious (redirect from Emperor of the West Louis I)
entities was settled. West Francia and East Francia became the kernels of modern France and Germany respectively. Middle Francia, that included Burgundy...
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This is a chronological list of the battles involving the Franks, Francia and West Francia until 987. For later conflicts, see List of battles involving the...
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