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Kingdom of Arles

933–1032

Kingdom of Burgundy; from the 12th century commonly the Kingdom of Arles (Arelat), after its capital; sometimes the "Second Kingdom of Burgundy" to distinguish it from the earlier Burgundian kingdom (411–534). Ruled by the Welf/Rudolphian line: Rudolph II (933–937), Conrad I "the Peaceful" (937–993), and Rudolph III "the Idle" (993–1032), the last independent king.

Existed
933–1032
Shown on the map
AD 936–1384
Peak area
117k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

Kingdom of Burgundy; from the 12th century commonly the Kingdom of Arles (Arelat), after its capital; sometimes the "Second Kingdom of Burgundy" to distinguish it from the earlier Burgundian kingdom (411–534). Ruled by the Welf/Rudolphian line: Rudolph II (933–937), Conrad I "the Peaceful" (937–993), and Rudolph III "the Idle" (993–1032), the last independent king. Childless, he pledged his succession to the German king Henry II (1006) and ultimately the Emperor; on his death (6 September 1032) the kingdom was inherited by Emperor Conrad II and incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire. Thereafter "Arles" was a nominal imperial kingdom whose authority evaporated as Provence, Savoy, the Dauphiné and the Free County went their own ways and France encroached. Charles IV detached Savoy (1361) and in 1378 made the French Dauphin his imperial vicar; the Trier archchancellorship for Burgundy survived, as a fossil, until 1803. Note: the "dissolution" resists a single date — it is best described as gradual absorption, chiefly by France, across the 14th–15th centuries.

Common questions

What was the Kingdom of Arles?
Kingdom of Burgundy; from the 12th century commonly the Kingdom of Arles (Arelat), after its capital; sometimes the "Second Kingdom of Burgundy" to distinguish it from the earlier Burgundian kingdom (411–534). Ruled by the Welf/Rudolphian line: Rudolph II (933–937), Conrad I "the Peaceful" (937–993), and Rudolph III "the Idle" (993–1032), the last independent king.
When did the Kingdom of Arles exist?
The Kingdom of Arles existed 933–1032. On this map it is drawn AD 936–1384.
How large was the Kingdom of Arles?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Kingdom of Arles covered about 117,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:

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This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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