# Duke of Lothier

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Duke_of_Lothier
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Duke_of_Lothier.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Lothier
> Source revision: 1337801740
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|European title of nobility}}{{More citations needed|date=June 2024}}

The '''Duke of Lothier''' was purely an honorific title.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lecuppre-Desjardin |first=Élodie |title=The illusion of the Burgundian state |date=2022 |publisher=Manchester University Press |pages=262 |chapter=6 Measuring and imagining: reflections on territorial consciousness |doi=10.7765/9781526144348.00013|isbn=978-1-5261-4434-8 }}</ref> It is often associated with the territory within the Duchy of [Lower Lotharingia](/source/Lower_Lotharingia), governed by the [dukes of Brabant](/source/dukes_of_Brabant) and their successors after 1190 until the end of the [Ancien Régime](/source/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime) in 1796.

In 1190, at the Diet of [Hall](/source/Schw%C3%A4bisch_Hall) in the abbey of Comburg, the [Roman Emperor](/source/Holy_Roman_Emperor) [Henry VI](/source/Henry_VI%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor) decided that the [duke of Lower Lotharingia](/source/duke_of_Lower_Lotharingia), at that moment [Henry I of Brabant](/source/Henry_I_of_Brabant), would only have ducal authority within his own Lotharingian territories (the county of [Leuven](/source/Leuven)) and his imperial fiefs (the [Margraviate of Antwerp](/source/Margraviate_of_Antwerp), the [Landgraviate of Brabant](/source/Landgraviate_of_Brabant) and the domain of the abbey of [Nivelles](/source/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 should not be confused with the far greater [Lower Lotharingia](/source/Lower_Lotharingia). It is only applicable to:

* The county of [Leuven](/source/Leuven) and [Brussels](/source/Brussels), although the Dukes of Brabant assumed this Carolingian heritage to be [allodial](/source/allodium).
* The [landgraviate](/source/landgrave), from 1183/1184 [Duchy of Brabant](/source/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 landgraviate.
* The [Margraviate of Antwerp](/source/Margraviate_of_Antwerp), a traditional administrative fief of the former Dukes of Lower Lotharingia.
* The advocacy over the abbey of [Nivelles](/source/Nivelles), an imperial fief.
* The advocacy over the abbey of [Gembloux](/source/Gembloux).

==References==
{{reflist}}

Lothier, Duchy
Lothier, Duchy
Category:Dukes of Brabant
Category:Dukes of Lower Lorraine
Category:States and territories established in 1190
Category:States and territories disestablished in 1796
Category:1796 disestablishments
Category:Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Duke of Lothier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Lothier) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Lothier?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.