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State · 959 – 1766

Duchy of Lorraine

A state of 959 – 1766 — 807 years in Europe. It was replaced by Lorraine and Barrois. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 4 people. Its own article says it was conquered by France.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
807 years
959 – 1766
Rulers
4
the Duke of Lorraine
Most ground
17,400 km²
in 1700
Within it
2
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Duchy of Lorraine in 1700, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Duchy of Lorraine in 1700, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 17,400 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Duchy of Lorraine: 959 – 1766

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

  • Lorraine and Barrois · replaced by

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by France, 1766-02-23. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

When Stanisław died on 23 February 1766, Lorraine was annexed by France and reorganized as the province of Lorraine and Barrois.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine · 959 – 978 · no death date to read the end againstCharles, Duke of Lower Lorraine · 977 – 991 · no death date to read the end againstJohn II of Lorraine · 1453 – 1470 · no death date to read the end againstStanisław Leszczyński · 1737 – 1766 · no death date to read the end against1000120014001600
ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine959 – 97819 yearsending not on record
Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine977 – 99114 yearsending not on record
John II of Lorraine1453 – 147017 yearsending not on record
Stanisław Leszczyński1737 – 176629 yearsending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 959 – 1766. Median reign 18 years. 1 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

150016001700

17,100 km² in 1434, 17,400 km² in 1766; at its largest 17,400 km² in 1766. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Blason Lorraine
    coat of arms, undatedBlason Lorraine · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Flag of Lorraine
    flag, undatedFlag of Lorraine · CC0

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

900 – 999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other9001000 – 1099: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other10001100 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other12001300 – 1399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other13001400 – 1499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other14001500 – 1599: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other15001600 – 1699: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other16001700 – 1799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1700

1500 – 15991 row

1600 – 16991 row

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood807 years

    stood longer than 95% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held17,400 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 20% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median19 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 59% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record4

    has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

County of Verdun · Coincidence · 850 – 1134County of VerdunDuchy of Lorraine · 959 – 1766Duchy of LorraineLorraine and Barrois · Linked · 1766 – 1790Lorraine and Barrois10001200140016001800
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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q155019 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.