the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Latin: Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was...

Burgundia into three parts in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, Vienne became part of Middle Francia. King Charles II the Bald assigned the Viennois district...

Middle Francia (Latin: Francia media) was a short-lived Frankish kingdom which was created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun after an intermittent civil...

as older Carolingians who ruled West Francia and East Francia viewed themselves as the true heirs of Middle Francia. As Charles of Provence was too young...

France and Carloman II, the joint kings of West Francia, in a failed siege of Boso of Provence in Vienne from August to September. Provence, legally a part...

cousin, Charles the Fat, then ruling East Francia and Kingdom of Italy, and unsuccessfully besieged Vienne from August to November 880. In 881, Louis...

Lotharingia, by his uncles Louis the German of East Francia and Charles the Bald of West Francia, the two surviving sons of Emperor Louis I the Pious...

Charles-Constantine (died 962) was a Count of Vienne. His father, Louis the Blind, was King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor. When Charles' father Louis...

to which Boso succeeded in 869. In 870, King Charles the Bald of West Francia married Boso's sister Richilde. This marriage paved the way for Boso's...

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...

also referred to in various context as Arelat, the Kingdom of Arles and Vienne, or Kingdom of Burgundy-Provence, was a realm established in 933 by the...

Loir-et-Cher to the north, Cher to the east, Creuse, and Haute-Vienne to the south, and Vienne to the southwest. The préfecture (capital) is Châteauroux and...

born in late 943 to King Louis IV of France (920/921–954), ruler of West Francia, and his wife, Gerberga of Saxony (d. about 984), sister of the East Frankish...

empire was roughly between 10 and 20 million people. Its heartland was Francia, the land between the Loire and the Rhine, where the realm's primary royal...

met the Frankish army in Gaul. Clovis's army was slowed by a rain-swollen Vienne River, yet his forces were able to engage the Visigoths south of Vouillé...

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 son...

Meuse basins (including Verdun, Vienne and Besançon) but leaving the Rhineland with Aachen, Metz, and Trier in East Francia. Viking incursions up the Loire...

and was survived by two adult sons, Louis and Carloman. Boso, Count of Vienne, renounced allegiance to both brothers and in July claimed independence...

was military governor of the Breton March, responsible for defending Francia's frontier against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's...

Adelphius I (born c. 390) was a bishop of Augustoritum (Limoges) in Haute Vienne from c. 420. Through his son or daughter, born around the same year, he...

Strasbourg: King Louis the German, ruler of East Francia, and his half-brother Charles the Bald, ruler of West Francia, meet with their armies at Strasbourg. They...

July 2024. "Cosa c'è nel programma della nuova coalizione di sinistra in Francia". Il Post (in Italian). 15 June 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024. "Macron e...

counts of Mâcon. After taking Lyon, he besieged his brother's capital of Vienne, where he was joined by Louis, Carloman, and the emperor Charles the Fat...

Cassino. However, before that could happen Carloman died shortly after in Vienne, on 17 August. He was buried in Monte Cassino. There is some discrepancy...

fixed see. Over several decades, Wilchar played a diplomatic role between Francia and Rome. He helped Charlemagne become king of the whole kingdom after...

Odo engaged the Frankish troops but was defeated. Charles went back to Francia. Meanwhile, the Umayyads were gathering forces to attack Odo's ally in...

II (473–493 in Valence), Gundomar/Godomar (473–486 in Vienne) and Godegisel (473–500, in Vienne and Geneva). After the fall of the Western Roman Empire...

of Emperor Lothair I and Ermengarde of Tours. His father divided Middle Francia between his three sons: the eldest, Louis, received Italy and the emperorship;...

is apparently the bishop mentioned in a letter from Archbishop Avitus of Vienne to Caesarius of Arles, dated to the period 502–508, and certainly no later...

al-Ghafiqi, current governor of Septimania, devastate Avignon, Viviers, Valence, Vienne and Lyon (approximate date). Marcello Tegalliano dies after a 9-year reign...