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| | Francia Media: Lorraine & Burgundy |
 | | The list, however, is especially useful, since the Dukes of Lower Lorraine from 1046 to 1139 were a mixture of different families, most of whom are difficult to find, if they are there, in Thompsett's database. |
 | | Lorraine thus became a "duchy." After the death of the last Eastern Carolingian, Louis the Child, in 911, Lorraine became for a while a matter of dispute between Eastern and Western Franks, with the power of local nobility consequently becoming more important. |
 | | This is at the end of the House of Capet, but Jeanne and Philip actually have a number of daughters, through whom the County of Burgundy passes; and since they marry Dukes of Burgundy and Counts of Flanders, the fateful combination of the Duchy of Burgundy with the Counties of Flanders and Burgundy arises. |
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