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The Franconian nobles, led by Archbishop Willigis of Mainz ( the Primate of Germany ) and Duke Conrad I of Swabia, refused to abandon Otto III.
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The assembled Franconian and Saxon nobles duly elected Henry to be king.
Franconian and led
Formerly the Germanisches Museum, it was founded by a group of individuals led by the Franconian baron, Hans von und zu Aufsess, whose goal was to assemble a " well-ordered compendium of all available source material for German history, literature and art ".
Franconian and by
The Western natural border of Franconia is formed by the Spessart and Rhön Mountains, separating it from the former Rhenish Franconian lands around Aschaffenburg ( officially part of Lower Franconia ), where Hessian dialects are spoken.
To the north it is framed by the Rennsteig ridge of the Thuringian Forest, the Thuringian Highland and the Franconian Forest, the border with the Upper Saxon lands of Thuringia.
The Franconian lands include the present-day South Thuringian districts Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Hildburghausen and Sonneberg, the historic Gau of Grabfeld held by the House of Henneberg from the 11th century and later part of the Wettin duchy of Saxe-Meiningen.
Examples of Franconian cities founded by Frankish noblemen are Würzburg, first mentioned in the 7th century, Ansbach, first mentioned in 748, and Weissenburg, founded in the 7th century.
The cadet Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern was founded by Conrad III, Burgrave of Nuremberg.
According to the chronicler Widukind of Corvey, Otto " pitched his camp in the territory of the city of Augsburg and joined there the forces of Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, who was himself lying mortally ill nearby, and by Duke Conrad with a large following of Franconian knights.
Like most of France's regional languages ( such as Breton, Provençal and Alsatian ) Lorraine Franconian was largely replaced by French with the advent of mandatory public schooling in the 19th and 20th centuries.
* Hughes, S. P. ( 2005 ) " Bilingualism in North-East France with specific reference to Rhenish Franconian spoken by Moselle Cross-border ( or frontier ) workers.
The town was first granted in 1764 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Franconia, a name widely applied to the region by 1760 due to the terrain's resemblance to the Franconian Switzerland in the region of Franconia in Germany.
It evolved into Old Low Franconian in the north and it was replaced step by step by Langue d ' oïl in the south.
According to the medieval chronicler Widukind of Corvey, King Conrad designated Henry his heir, thereby denying the succession of his own brother Eberhard of Franconia, and in 919 the Saxon duke was elected King of East Francia by the assembled Saxon and Franconian princes at Fritzlar.
Franconian law prescribed that an accused was to be given dry bread and cheese blessed by a priest.
Around 1125 Władysław married Agnes of Babenberg, daughter of Margrave Leopold III of Austria ; this union gave him a close connection with the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Germany: Agnes by her mother was a granddaughter of Emperor Henry IV and a half-sister of the Franconian duke Conrad III of Hohenstaufen, the later King of Germany.
In the north it is joined by the Franconian Saale River.
This transition area between Central German and Upper German is captured by the dialect families of South Franconian German and East Franconian German, colloquially miscalled Franconian as dialects of this sub-family are spoken all over Franconia.
# A broader term for the closely related, continental West Germanic language family unaffected by the High German consonant shift, nor classifying as Anglo-Frisian, and thus including Low Franconian varieties such as Dutch.
The Leiden Willeram is the name given to a manuscript containing a Low Franconian version of the Old High German commentary on Song of Solomon by the German abbot Williram of Ebersberg ( ultimately by Isidore of Seville ).
Until recently, based on its orthography and phonology the text of this manuscript was believed by most scholars to be Middle Franconian, that is Old High German, with some Limburgic or otherwise Franconian admixtures.
Franconian and Germany
Following the union of these two Franconian lines in 1618, the Kingdom of Prussia was created in 1701, eventually leading to the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire in 1871.
In the first phase, the family gradually added to their lands, at first with many small acquisitions in the Franconian and Bavarian regions of Germany:
Bayreuth (; ) is a sizeable town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains.
* Franconian Jura, a mountain range in southeastern Germany
There are many other legends about Pilate in the folklore of Germany, particularly about his birth, according to which Pilate was born in the Franconian city of Forchheim or the small village of Hausen only 5 km away from it.
Low Franconian, Low Frankish, or Istvaeonic, is a group of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium ( Flanders ), in the northern department of France, in western Germany ( Lower Rhine ), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and Namibia that originally descended from Old Frankish.
In Germany, Low Franconian only exists as Meuse-Rhenish regiolects and dialects
In Germany, the Jura is lower in altitude, stretching into Bavaria in the Swabian and Franconian plateaus.
It's the only area in Germany where the traditional dialects are Low Franconian, rather than Low German or High German.
Erlangen ( East Franconian: Erlang ) is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany.
Meanwhile the Emperor recalled the Bavarian, Swabian, and Franconian troops under the Elector of Bavaria from the Ottoman front to defend south Germany.
The first documented evidence of the Bratwurst in Germany dates back to 1313, and can be found in the Franconian city of Nuremberg, which is still an internationally renowned centre for the production of grill sausages.
The Franconian Jura (,, ) is an upland in Bavaria, Germany.
Conrad I (; c. 890 – 23 December 918 ), called the Younger, was Duke of Franconia from 906 and King of Germany from 911 to 918, the only king of the Conradine ( or Franconian ) dynasty.
Levi Strauss was born in Buttenheim, in the Franconian region of Bavaria, Germany, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family.
( German, literally means ' liver cheese '; sometimes spelled Leberkäs or Leberka ( a ) s in Austria and the Swabian, Bavarian and Franconian parts of Germany and Fleischkäse in Saarland, Switzerland and the Tyrol ) is a specialty food found in the south of Germany, in Austria and parts of Switzerland, similar to bologna sausage.
The result, generally called Leberkässemmel ( or Leberkäsweckla in the Franconian parts of Germany ), is a staple of Bavarian and Austrian fast food stalls, butcher shops and supermarkets.
The Black Company or the Black Troops was a unit of Franconian mercenaries during the Peasant's Revolt in the 1520s during the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
* Franconian Harmonics, Estenfeld, Germany ( 2004 )
Franconian and Duke
The Franconian-Kirschner branch was more successful: members of the Franconian branch became Margrave of Brandenburg in 1415 and Duke of Prussia in 1525.
* Franconian Duke Hetan II completes the circular Marienkirche in Fortress Marienberg near Würzburg.
After treating in vain for a marriage between one of his sons and Mary, daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Albert handed over the government of Brandenburg to his eldest son John, and returned to his Franconian possessions.
In the 1680 partition the former Franconian lands of the extinct House of Henneberg fell to Ernest's third son, Bernhard, who chose the town of Meiningen as his residence and became the first Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
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