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and his fons Karhnann and Pipin, as likewile in the ninth century under the
Carkvingian Kings, Mr. John Gottlieb Gonne has flievvn in his treatife, De
Ducatu Francice Orientalis. The fame author has alfo remarked that Eajl-
Fratikenland, after the foundation of the German Empire, was never fo entirely
fubje£led to a Duke as Bavaria, Swabia, Thuringia and Saxony ; but
that a great part of this country was, from the beginning of the German
Empire, immediately fubjedl to Kings. Of the Dukes of Franconia, of the
tenth century, Conrad \. was elected King of the Germans in the year 91 r
or 912. In the eleventh century the German crown came again to the
Frankijh Dukes, and that at firil to Conrad II. who was chofen King in
1 124, and afterwards alfo became Emperor. That Prince was fucceeded
in the fame dignity by his fon Hetiry ill. grandfon to Henry IV. and greatgrandfon
to Henry V. who was the laft Emperor of the ducal Franiißj hoafe
that line becoming extindt in him in the year 1125. This Emperor ceded
the dntchy of Franconia to his fifter Ag?ies, confort to Frederick of Hohenßaufen,
Duke of Sivabia and fon to Conrad III. who was polTefled of a
county in the Kochergau ; and thus the houfe of Hohenflaufen became at the
fame time pofl'elTed of the dutchies of Franco7iia and Sivabia. Conrad III.
exercifed the ducal rights alfo in Wurzburg^ was created King of the
Germans, and tranfmitted by inheritance the dutchy of Franconia to his fon
Frederick, who had his feat at Rothenburg. This laft, however, dying
without ifTue, this dutchy fell to Conrad, fon to the Emperor Frederick I.
who was alfo Duke of Sivabia. At laft the dutchies of Francouia and Swabia
ceafed in the houfe of Hohenflaufen.
§. 3. Anciently in the prefent Franconia were feveral Gaus or Fagi, the
principal of which fhall be mentioned. Of the Nordgau a confiderable
part belonged to it, which part again comprized in it feveral leffer gaus and
counties. It even extended through the biflioprics of Aichßett and Bamberg,
as alfo through the principalities of the marggravate of Brandenburg,
both above and below the Gebirge, through the territory of the Imperial city
of Nürnberg and other fmaller territories. The Rangau, or Ratengau,
extended itfelf on both fides the Rednitz, and the part fituate on the right
fide ofthat river belonged to the Nordgau. The ^oA/^-A/ terminated on the
foregoing Gau, lying betwixt the Mayn, the Rednitz and the Auradj,
which at Bamberg falls into the latter) as alfo betwixt the Volkach. Thus
a part of the bifliopric of Wurzburg belongs thereto. Of the noble Grabfeld
znd the lefler Gjz/5 here, a part is to be fought for in the biHiopric of
Wurzburg, the princely county of Henneberg and the principality of Coburg.
The Gau of Waldfafzin (otherwife called Waldfazi, or Waltfaze) lay betwixt
Wurzburg and Wertheim. The Moingau, which was alfo written Moynachau,
&c. extended, on the right of the river Mayn, from Frankfort to the ^fau-
^^r and confequently quite to the county of //^«vv/jdYW. lvi.\hzDabcrgau, or
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