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Duchy of Franconia (to 1168) Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg, 1168–1803 Electorate of Bavaria, 1803–1805 Grand Duchy of Würzburg, 1805–1814 Kingdom of Bavaria, 1814–1871 German Empire, (Kingdom of Bavaria), 1871–1918 German Reich, 1918–1919 Würzburg Soviet Republic, 1919 German Reich, 1919–1945 American-occupied zone, 1945–1949
Franconia. (in Germany, Franken), a historic region in Germany, now part of the Federal Republic of Germany. Franconia was named for the Franks, who settled there in the middle of the first millennium A.D. From the late ninth century it was a tribal duchy in the kingdom of Germany. In 939 it was conquered by Otto I, who abolished it as a duchy.
History Origin. The family stems from the Lords of Seinsheim, who had established themselves in Franconia during the Middle Ages. A branch of the Seinsheim family (the non-Schwarzenberg portion died out in 1958) was created when Erkinger of Seinsheim acquired the Franconian territory of Schwarzenberg and the castle of Schwarzenberg in Scheinfeld during the early part of the 15th century.
The flag consists of two horizontal bands of equal thickness, the upper one is red, the lower one is white or heraldic silver. [1] The Franconian Rake is usually placed in the centre. [1] Also common is the word Franken ("Franconia") in white letters on a black field above the rake. Although not official, the Franconian Rake is also commonly ...
Duchy. A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a medieval country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition. There once existed an important difference between "sovereign dukes" and dukes who were ordinary noblemen throughout Europe.
The Kingdom of Germany or German Kingdom ( Latin: regnum Teutonicorum 'kingdom of the Germans', regnum Teutonicum 'German kingdom', [1] regnum Alamanie "kingdom of Germany" [2]) was the mostly Germanic-speaking East Frankish kingdom, which was formed by the Treaty of Verdun in 843, especially after the kingship passed from Frankish kings to the ...
Hessen. Franconia, one of the five great stem, or Stamm (tribal), duchies—the other four being Saxony, Lotharingia (Lorraine), Swabia, and Bavaria—of early medieval Germany. Today it is divided between Rhenish Franconia, now located in the Länder (states) of Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse, and East Franconia, now in ...
