Lotharingia (Merveilles du Monde Map Game)

Kingdom of Lotharingia
Koningryk Lotharingen

Flag Coat of Arms Location of Kingdom of Lotharingia Motto Werre di (Belgisch) ("Defend Thy")
Anthem	"Eens meiens vroe"
Capital (and largest city)	Aachen
Other cities	Malines, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Luitig, Gulik
Language	Belgisch, Langues d'oïl, Frisian, Low Saxon
Religion	Roman Catholicism, Hussites, Moderate Hussites
Legislature	Senatus Regus Lotharri
King
Royal house:	House of Reginar-Luxembourg
Established	855
Independence	from Francia
declared	855
Currency	Carolus Pond

The Kingdom of Lotharingia (Lotharingian: Koningryk Lotharingen), also known simply as Lotharingia, is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy located in Western Europe, predominated centered in the northwestern Lowlands region. The Lotharingian identity was only recently established following the Succession War of Limbourg, where Duke John I of Brabant together with Loon and Berg, and several other regional allies, were able to defeat the Electorate of Cologne and her allies.

Following the extensive political efforts of the Brabantine dukes, John II and John III, the ruling family of the state were able to enforce their title as Duke of Lotharingia over a time of several years. Eventually, they would successfully push for and acquire the promotion of their title to that of an Archduchy by Papal decree in 1318.

History

In 959 the East Frankish king Otto I of Germany elevated Count Godfrey of Jülich to the rank of duke of Lower Lorraine. In 962 the duchy became an integral part of the Holy Roman Empire, where Godfrey's successors of the ducal Ardennes-Verdun dynasty also ruled over the Gau of Brabant. Here, the counts of Leuven rose to power, when about 1000 Count Lambert I the Bearded married Gerberga, the daughter of Duke Charles of Lower Lorraine, and acquired the County of Brussels. About 1024 southernmost Brabant fell to Count Reginar V of Mons (Bergen, later Hainaut), and Imperial lands up to the Schelde river in the west came under the rule of the French Counts Baldwin V of Flanders by 1059. Upon the death of Count Palatine Herman II of Lotharingia in 1085, Emperor Henry IV assigned his fief between the Dender and Zenne rivers as the Landgraviate of Brabant to Count Henry III of Leuven and Brussels.

About one hundred years later, in 1183/1184, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa formally established the Duchy of Brabant and created the hereditary title of Duke of Brabant in favour of Henry I of Brabant, son of Count Godfrey III of Leuven. Although the original county was still quite small - and limited to the territory between the Dender and Zenne rivers, situated to the west of Brussels - from the 13th century onwards its name came to apply to the entire territory under control of the dukes.

In 1190, after the death of Godfrey III, Henry I also became Duke of Lower Lotharingia. By that time the title had lost most of its territorial authority. According to protocol, all his successors were thereafter called Dukes of Brabant and Lower Lotharingia (often called Duke of Lothier).

After the Battle of Worringen in 1288, the dukes of Brabant also acquired the Duchy of Limburg and the lands of Overmaas (trans-Meuse).

Lotharingian Unification

After the death of John I of Brabant, son John II of Brabant decided that he would again pursue the policy of Lotharingification. This was the policy of reunifying all the lands that once used to belong to the Duchy of Lotharingia. This process was started in 1295 when John II bought the rights for the small lordship of Myerebeke and then in 1299 continued with Duke John II claiming the vacant throne of Zeeland and Holland.

Council of Heyst

On the 21st of March 1312 the Duke of Brabant and Limburg, Count of Holland, Zeeland, Dalhem and Aalst signed the Charter of Heyst. This Charter with its rights and local representation is often referred to as a Constitution, Some calling it the "Heyst Constitution". This is even the first charter to give estates the right to participate and make democratic decisions. and two new states joining this Union shortly after in 1314 but with more autonomy these states being the County of Loon and Hainaut. These two states still having their own Monarchy and city rights, and even over their local disputes even if anyone can request higher trial without delay. Although for these two states the trial follows local law and not Council adopted law.

Lotharingian Realm "Union of Aachen"

A list showing the royal lands of the Union of Aachen.

Lotharingian Realm

Title	Name	Coat of Arms	Admission Date
Duchy	Brabant		Founder of Realm
Duchy	Limbourg		1288 AD
County	Dalhem		1288 AD
Lordship	Hertogenrade		1288 AD
Lordship	Myerebeke		1295 AD
County	Zeeland		1299 AD
County	Holland		1299 AD
County	Loon		1314 AD
County	Hainault		1314 AD
Duchy	Overmaas		1329 AD
Lordship	Tournaissis		1338 AD
County	Namur		1338 AD
Duchy	Fryslan		1342 AD
Duchy	Mossele		1357 AD
county	Flanders		1423
Region	Artesien		1423

Rulers of Brabant

Archduke and later on Kings of Lothier

Brabantine Realm

Title	Name	Picture	Children	Reign
Duke of Brabant Archduke of Lothier	John I		John II, John of Mallines, Margheretha of Brabant, Maria of Brabant	12XX — 1294
Duke of Brabant Archduke of Lothier	John II	No picture yet	John III of Brabant, Cate of Brabant, Hendrik of Brabant	1294 — 1312
Regent of Brabant	John	No picture yet	Unkown	1312 — 1316
Duke of Brabant Archduke of Lothier	John III	No picture yet	Caroline of Brabant	1316 — 1345
Count of Luxembourg Archduke of Lothier	John IV		Karl of Lothiers and Luxembourg	1345 — 1353
Duke of Brabant King of Lothier	Charles	No picture yet	Feinsan of Reginarid	1353 — 1378
King of Lothiers	Feinsan		Godfrey Regnier, Henri Regnier	1378 — 1422
King of Lothiers	Godfried	No picture yet	John Leonard Regnier	1422 — 1472
King of Lothiers	John (Leonard) V	No picture yet	Juan Leonardo, Katelien, Alvin	1472 — 1511
King of Lothiers	John  VI	No picture yet	Juan Leonardo, Katelien, Alvin	1511 — Present