Everything about Duke Of Lothier totally explained
Lothier refers to the territory within the Duchy of
Lower Lotharingia, governed by the
Dukes of Brabant and their successors after
1190 until the end of the
Ancien Régime in 1796.
In 1190, at the Diet of
Hall in the abbey of Comburg, the German Emperor
Henry VI decided that the
Duke of Lower Lotharingia, at that moment
Henry I of Brabant, would only have ducal authority within his own Lotharingian territories (the county of
Leuven) and his imperial fiefs (the margraviate of
Antwerp, the
landgraviate of
Brabant and the domain of the abbey of
Nivelles). The title of Duke of Lothier became purely honorific and had no further territorial or judicial authority. A few legal courts of Lothier remained in existence, but they only decided in feudal matters.
Lothier shouldn't be confused with the far greater
Lower Lotharingia. It is only applicable to:
- The county of Leuven and Brussels, although the Dukes of Brabant assumed this Carolingian heritage to be allodial.
- The landgraviat, from 1183/1184 Duchy of Brabant, an imperial fief lifted out of the duchy of Lower Lotharingia from about 1085/1086. It included also the advocacy of all ecclesiastic institutions within the landgraviat.
- The margraviat of Antwerp, a traditional administrative fief of the former Dukes of Lower Lotharingia.
- The advocacy over the abbey of Nivelles, an imperial fief.
- The advocacy over the abbey of Gembloux.
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