First of the Ottonian Dynasty of German kings and emperors, he is generally considered to be the founder and first king of the medieval German state, known until then as East Francia.

He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

Despite his popularity, Francia trampled on human rights, imposing a police state based on espionage, threats and force.

Francia released them only after they agreed to pay an enormous collective indemnity of 150, 000 pesos ( about 75 percent of the annual state budget ), an amount so large that it broke their predominance in the Paraguayan economy.

Francia banned religious orders, closed the country's only seminary, " secularized " monks and priests by forcing them to swear loyalty to the state, abolished the fuero eclesiástico ( the privilege of clerical immunity from civil courts ), confiscated church property, and subordinated church finances to state control.

An extremely frugal and honest man, Francia left the state treasury with at least twice as much money in it as when he took office, including 36, 500 pesos of his unspent salary, the equivalent of several years ' salary.

Francia had pictured himself as the first citizen of a revolutionary state, whereas López used the all-powerful state bequeathed by the proverbially honest Francia to enrich himself and his family.

Under Francia, the state acquired about 1, 000 slaves when it confiscated property from the elite.

Despite their professed admiration for Francia, the Colorados dismantled Francia's unique system of state socialism.

The vault allegedly dubbed the Himmler Crypt, was ( allegedly ) dedicated to Heinrich I, founder and first king of the medieval German state ( see East Francia ), of whom Himmler reportedly believed himself to be the reincarnation, and where he hoped to be interred after his death.

However, in 1828 Francia made state education compulsory for all males ( he neither helped nor hindered the private schools ).

Francia left the state treasury with at least twice as much money in it as when he took office, including 36, 500 pesos of his unspent salary, the equivalent of several years ' salary.

The beginning of his reign was occupied with wars against the vassals, particularly against the duke of Normandy, and it should be made clear that the monarch of Western Francia was more a ceremonial title, more of a first among equals status, than that state which would represent the later centralised authority meant by monarchies of earlier and later historical epochs.

Polkan is originally based on Pulicane, a half-dog from Andrea da Barberino's poem I Reali di Francia, which was once popular in the Slavonic world in prosaic translations.

* June 13 – Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.

* December 29 – Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, is crowned emperor.

When the reinforcements do not arrive, Charles the Bald is compelled to return to West Francia.

* Louis the Stammerer, king of West Francia dies, and is succeeded by his sons Louis III and Carloman II.

Ealhmund was probably the father of Egbert of Wessex, and it is possible that Offa's interventions in Kent in the mid-780s are connected to the subsequent exile of Egbert to Francia.

With an alleged force of 120 ships and 5, 000 Viking warriors, he landed in what is now France, probably at the Seine estuary, and ravaged West Francia, as the westernmost part of the Frankish Empire was then known.

* King Odo of West Francia dies, and is succeeded by his rival claimant to the throne, Charles the Simple.

It has been used as a synonym for East Francia, though this is somewhat inaccurate.

He was also prevented from succeeding the unpopular Charles, who was deposed in November 887 and died in January 888, although it is unknown if his deposition was accepted or even made known in West Francia before his death.

This has led to speculation that he was educated at least partly in Francia, but it is also possible that he acquired this vocabulary from Frankish scholars he associated with at court, such as Grimbald.

The tribe was named Luiseño by the Spanish due to their proximity to the Mission San Luís Rey de Francia (" The Mission of Saint Louis King of France ," known as the " King of the Missions "), which was founded on June 13, 1798 by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, in what was the First Military District in what now is Oceanside, California, in northern San Diego County.

Francia: the realm of Carloman II after the division of March 880 is shown in blue

Macbeth ( Mac Bethad mac Findláich ) is recorded as his dux, literally duke, but in the context — " dukes of Francia " had half a century before replaced the Carolingian kings of the Franks and in England the over-mighty Godwin of Wessex was called a dux — this suggests that Macbeth was the power behind the throne.

Francia: the realm ruled by Louis III after the division of March 880 is shown in purple

The city is named after Louis IX of France ( also known in Mexico as San Luis Rey de Francia ; Saint Louis, King of France ), who is the city's patron saint.

It is probable that Arnulf desired the whole empire, but the only part he received other than East Francia was Lotharingia.

Subdued only a few decades earlier, the Saxons rose to one of the leading tribes in East Francia ; it is however uncertain, if the Ottonians already held the ducal title in the 9th century.

The first recorded naming of Francia is in the Panegyrici Latini of the early third century.

One of his sons, Henry, sometimes called margrave and duke in Franconia under King Charles the Fat of East Francia, fell fighting against the Normans in 886 ; another, Poppo, was margrave in Thuringia from 880 to 892, when he was deposed by King Charles successor Arnulf of Carinthia.

Louis the Child ( 893 – 20 or 24 September 911 ), sometimes called Louis IV or Louis III, was the last Carolingian ruler of East Francia.

Middle Francia ( Latin Francia media ) thus included all the land between Aachen and Rome and it has sometimes been called by historians the " Lotharingian axis ".

In March 880 at Amiens the brothers divided their father's kingdom, Louis receiving the northern part, called Neustria or sometimes simply Francia.

The geography and number of subkingdoms varied over time, but the particular term Francia came generally to refer to just one regnum, that of Austrasia, centred on the Rhine and Meuse rivers in northern Europe ; even so, sometimes the term was used as well to encompass Neustria north of the Loire and west of the Seine.

Lothair (; ) ( 941 – 986 ), sometimes called Lothair IV, was the Carolingian king of West Francia ( 10 September 954 – 1 March 986 ), son of Louis IV and Gerberga of Saxony.

It is sometimes alleged that Berengar was pining to be declared Charles ' heir and that he may in fact have been so named in Italy, where he was acclaimed ( or made himself ) king immediately after Charles ' deposition by the nobles of East Francia in November that year ( 887 ).

The medieval Kingdom of France emerged out of the western part of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, known as West Francia, and achieved increasing prominence under the rule of the House of Capet, founded by Hugh Capet in 987.

The Merovingians were a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region known as Francia in Latin, largely corresponding to ancient Gaul, for 300 years from the middle of the 5th century.

Louis was guaranteed the kingship of all lands to the east of the Rhine and to the north and east of Italy, which was called East Francia which was the precursor to the Medieval conglomeration of disparate states known as the Holy Roman Empire and thence to modern Germany.

* 843: The three sons of Louis the Pious reach an agreement known as the Treaty of Verdun and split the Carolingian empire into three divisions ; East Francia was given to Louis the German, West Francia to Charles the Bald and Middle Francia to Lothair I.

Louis received the eastern part of the Carolingian Empire, known as the East Francia and later Germany.

Popularly known as Palazzo Francia, surname of the family that built and owned it, it originally housed the Knights ' foundry-hence the name Ferreria.

It later became a term for the region between the Seine and the Loire rivers known as the regnum Neustriae, a constituent subkingdom of the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia.

# Louis ' eldest surviving son Lothair I became Emperor in name but de facto only the ruler of the Middle Frankish Kingdom, or Middle Francia, known as King of the Central or Middle Franks.

From the 10th century, East Francia became also known as regnum Teutonicum (" Teutonic kingdom " or " Kingdom of Germany "), a term that became prevalent in Salian times.

Normandy began as a fief, probably as a county, in 911 by the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and Rollo, leader of the Vikings known as Northmen ( or in Latin Nortmanni ).

He is known to have stopped in Francia at Samer, near Calais, and to have given money there for the foundation of a church, and is also recorded at the court of Cunincpert, king of the Lombards, in what is now northern Italy.

Marcantonio received his training in the workshop of the famous goldsmith and painter of Bologna, Francesco Raibolini, best known as Francia.

Facing the cemetery and the cultural center, is the Plaza Intendente Alvear, mistakenly, but commonly known as Plaza Francia.

East Francia ( Regnum Francorum orientalium ), also known as the Kingdom of the East Franks or Francia Orientalis, was the realm allotted to Louis the German by the 843 Treaty of Verdun.