{"slug": "franconia", "label": "Franconia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150907", "qid": "Q150907", "description": "region in the south of Germany", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [689, 1125], "span_label": ["689 CE", "1125 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "duchy-of-bavaria", "label": "Duchy of Bavaria", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "east-francia", "label": "East Francia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "saxony", "label": "Saxony", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "thuringia", "label": "Thuringia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "louis-the-german", "label": "Louis the German", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "carloman-of-bavaria", "label": "Carloman of Bavaria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "duchy-of-swabia", "label": "Duchy of Swabia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "principality-of-hungary", "label": "Principality of Hungary", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "swabia", "label": "Swabia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-the-bald", "label": "Charles the Bald", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "frankfurt", "label": "Frankfurt", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 689, "year_label": "689 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 8", "text": "July 8 – Irish missionaries, apostles to Franconia, martyred (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350231931#Deaths", "title": "689", "revid": 1350231931, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 865, "year_label": "865 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. Carloman receives Bavaria (with more lands along the Inn River). He gives Saxony to Louis the Younger (with Franconia, and Thuringia) and Swabia (with Raetia) to Charles the Fat. Louis arranges marriages into the local aristocracy, for his sons to hold important territories along the frontiers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129586#Europe", "title": "865", "revid": 1341129586, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 876, "year_label": "876 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – King Louis the German dies at Frankfurt, while preparing for war against his brother Charles II (\"the Bald\"), ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. The East Frankish Kingdom is divided among his three sons: Carloman receives Bavaria and styles himself \"King of Bavaria\". Louis the Younger receives Saxony (with Franconia and Thuringia), and Charles the Fat receives Swabia (with Raetia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070562#Europe", "title": "876", "revid": 1267070562, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 911, "year_label": "911 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Hungarians cross Bavaria, and invade Swabia and Franconia. They plunder the territories from Minfeld to Aargau. After that, they cross the Rhine, and attack Burgundy for the first time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372066182#Europe", "title": "AD 911", "revid": 1372066182, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 915, "year_label": "915 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July", "text": "July – The Magyars (Hungarians), led by Zoltán, only son of the late Grand Prince Árpád, attack Swabia, Franconia and Saxony. Small units penetrate as far as Bremen, burning the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130780#Europe", "title": "915", "revid": 1341130780, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 919, "year_label": "919 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom. He recognizes the stem duchies (uniting them in a German confederation) and all their sovereign privileges. Two of the four most influential duchies, Bavaria and Swabia, do not accept his rule. Henry fortifies Magdeburg against the Magyars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509579#Europe", "title": "919", "revid": 1341509579, "section": "Events › By Place › Europe"}}, {"year": 936, "year_label": "936 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Hungarian army invades Franconia and occupies Fulda. They are attacked by East Frankish forces and forced to go westwards. Otto I moves against the rebellious Elbe Slavs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512077#Europe", "title": "936", "revid": 1341512077, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1024, "year_label": "1024 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Conrad the Elder is crowned as King Conrad II of Germany in a ceremony at Mainz, and he and Conrad the Younger are invested as joint dukes of Franconia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213215#July–September", "title": "1024", "revid": 1342213215, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1125, "year_label": "1125 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Lothair II (supported by Pope Honorius II) asks Frederick II to restore to the crown the estates that he has inherited from Henry V. Frederick refuses, and by year's end a succession dispute breaks out between the House of Welf and the House of Hohenstaufen. The latter is led by Frederick and his brother Conrad III, duke of Franconia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365270881#Europe", "title": "1125", "revid": 1365270881, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}