Everything about East Francia totally explained
Eastern Francia (
Regnum Francorum orientalium) was the land of
Louis the German after the
Treaty of Verdun of 843, which divided the
Carolingian Empire of the
Franks into an East,
West, and
Middle. It is the precursor of the
Holy Roman Empire and modern
Germany. It was known variously as
Francia Orientalis or the
Kingdom of the East Franks. If the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire is taken to coincide with the rise of the
Ottonian dynasty, the kingdom of East Francia lasted from 843 to the coronation of
Duke Henry I of Saxony in 919; more commonly, the Holy Roman Empire is thought to begin in 962, with the Coronation of
Otto the Great (
translatio imperii).
East Francia was divided into four
duchies:
Swabia (
Alamannia),
Franconia,
Saxony and
Bavaria (including
Carinthia);
to which after the death of
Lothair II in 869 were added the eastern parts of
Lotharingia.
This division persisted until 1268, the end of the
Hohenstaufen dynasty.
From the 10th century, East Francia became also known as
Regnum Teutonicum ("
Teutonic kingdom", "
Kingdom of Germany"), a term that became prevalent in
Salian times.
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