Behold, the glory of the Kingdom of Burgundy!
Capital: Strossburi
Red = vassals; dark red = personal demesne
(Pre-1066 history)
660 Saint Odile was born this year.
668 Adalrich, Duke of Alsace and father of Saint Odile, came to power this year.
672 Saint Odile fled to the convent this year.
689 Adalrich, Duke of Alsace, died and was succeeded by Adalbert of Alsace, who built Koenigshoffen in Strossburi and the abbeys at Honau and Strossburi.
720 This year the blessed Saint Odile recounted the beauties of Heaven to her sister religious, and entered into that rest.
722 Adalbert of Alsace died this year and was succeded by Luitfrid I of Alsace.
723 Eticho II of Nordgau, Duke of Swabia, died in this year and was succeeded as Count of Nordgau by Alberic I of Nordgau.
735 Alberic I died and was succeeded by Eberhard I, his son.
747 Rhutard of Nordgau, son of Luitfrid I of Alsace, becomes Count of Nordgau.
765 Rhutard I died this year. Eberhard I took up the comital office again.
767 Luitfrid I of Alsace died this year.
778 Louis the Pious was born this year.
800 Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome this year by Pope Leo III. Eberhard I of Nordgau died this year and was succeeded by Alberic II.
813 Charlemagne crowned his son Louis King of the Franks on the thirteenth of September.
814 This was the year of Charlemagne's death, on the twenty-eighth of January.
816 Alberic II of Nordgau died this year and was succeeded by Eberhard II, son of Eberhard I.
817 Louis the Pious crowned his son Lothair Emperor of the Romans this year.
840 Louis the Pious died, and the war between Lothair I and his brothers began.
841 Lothair I was defeated at Fontenoy.
843 Lothair I and his brothers divided the kingdom of their father at Verdun this year.
864 Eberhard II of Nordgau died this year and was succeded by his son Eberhard III.
920 Eberhard II of Nordgau died this year and was succeded by his son Hugo I.
940 Hugo I of Nordgau died and was succeded by Eberhard IV.
951 Eberhard IV retired to Àldorf. Hugo II succeeded him as governor.
972 Eberhard IV died this year, and Hugo II inherited the title of Count of Nordgau.
984 Hugo II died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Eberhard V.
996 Eberhard V died and was succeeded by his son, Hugo III.
999 Hugo III died this year without children. His brother, Eberhard VI, succeded him.
1027 Eberhard VI died without children and was succeeded by his uncle, Hugo IV of Nordgau, son of Hugo II. The county was ravaged by Ernst II, Duke of Swabia.
1048 Hugo IV died and was succeded by his grandson Heinrich I.
1065 Heinrich I died and was succeeded by his cousin Gerhard of Nordgau, son of Gerhard of Egisheim, son of Hugo IV.
(in-game history)
1092 St. Ernest of Strassburg was born.
1096 Gerhard of Nordgau died in his forty-sixth year. He was succeeded by his eldest living son, Anselm.
11-- In this year, Anselm Duke of Alsace and Baden joined Bruno King of Germany against the Count of Aargau. The King of Germany died in the Battle of Aarau. Subsequent to this, Anselm took the province for his own and gave it to the Count of Breisgau, his loyal retainer. He renounced his fealty to the new King of Germany and made war on him in Upper Burgundy, Bavaria, and Franconia.
1129 Anselm Duke of Alsace died. His son Ernest succeeded him.
1153 In this year, Ernest led an army to capture Silves from the Moors, where he sustained his grave wound.
Commentator's note: "his grave wound" (vulnus gravem sui) refers to the Life of St. Ernest,
wherein his wounding at the Battle of Silves brought about his conversion. He also adopted two of his bastard children, Bernhard the Elder and Leopold, as true sons and heirs.
1154 This was the year of St. Ernest of Strassburg's repose in the Lord, the sixty-second of his life. His adopted son Bernhard the Elder succeeded him as Duke of Alsace, and Leopold was given lands in the north.
1194 The Saracens made war upon Venice. Duke Bernhard fought alongside the Venetians in Spain and Portugal, and there was declared Duke of the Algarve.
11-- The war in Spain concluded this year. All Venetian holdings in Spain were taken by the Saracens, but Bernhard's holdings were maintained.
Commentator's note: Contemporary Turko-Persian records indicate that Alsace negotiated peace the year before, effectively leaving the Venetians to fight the Turks themselves.
11-- The Count of Mide swears fealty to Bernhard Duke of Alsace.
1192 Ida, daughter of Ulrich von Nordgau, and Oda, wife of Albrecht von Nordgau, heir to the county, were murdered by Albrecht this year.
1194 Marshal Wilhelm was murdered by Albrecht von Nordgau this year.
1197 Bernhard's heir Albrecht was sent into exile after his madness was manifest and his crimes made known, and died later in the year. Masses were offered for him, as well as for his wife Oda, his niece Ida, and Marshal Wilhelm, by his son the new heir Friedrich.
1194 In this year, the King of Burgundy and Italy retreated to Breisgau, his last home, having lost his holdings in those lands. Bernhard attacked and was crowned King of Burgundy. Celebrations in Strossburi lasted for days.
1196 Neuchatel and Schwyz were conquered and given to the Count of Aargau.
1202 Expansions were begun in the spring of the year to Strossburi Cathedral, including a chapel to St. Ernest. Tancred Prince-Bishop of St. Gallen rebelled against the King in this year, and he was conquered. Castles were completed in Bade and Àltkìrech. The Saracens in Faro took up arms against the Christian rulers in this year.
1203 The Saracens revolted in La Mancha in this year, as the expansions to Strossburi Cathedral were completed. Bernhard was taken ill shortly after.
1204 A castle in Friburg was completed this year, and King Bernhard joined the Venetians against the Saracens in Africa.
1205 Bernhard was delivered from his illness, and the Count of Hainaut and the Duke of Ulster pledged fealty to him this year.
1207 War was joined with Croatia and her vassals on behalf of the Venetians. Cuenca was conquered, and Bernhard was named Duke of Toledo. Bern was also captured and given to the Count of Besancon.
1208 The slow fever swept all the Algarve, and Toledo was captured by King Bernhard.
1209 The war turned against Burgundy, and all of Spain was ravaged by Croatian invaders and the slow fever.
1210 King Bernhard of Burgundy died at Strossburi on the twenty-sixth of April, in his seventy-second year. It was his sixteenth year as King, and his fifty-sixth year since succeeding his father St. Ernest. King Friedrich acceded the throne of Charlemagne in July of the same year. The Counts of Genoa and Mide refused to swear fealty to him, and Genoa took up arms to this end. Great stresses were laid upon the kingdom as the new king struggled to maintain order within the realm and fight the war without. He eventually acquiesced to the Croats' demands, surrendering the provinces of Toledo and Cuenca to the King of Croatia. Peace was made with the Saracens in Africa soon after. Peace restored, he turned his attentions once more to the vassals which had broken free. He approached Mide as the lost sheep and graciously offered the protection of vassalhood to the Count of that province. The Count accepted, and was readmitted to the kingdom happily. Genoa, however, he approached as a judge. Sending the best soldiers he had, fresh from Croatia, he laid siege to the city and would not hear the Count's supplications to be left alone.
1211 Genoa was conquered and returned to vassalage to Friedrich King of Burgundy in this year. Strains and rebellions against the Turks in Spain caused several Moorish counties to rebel, and King Friedrich made war against Almansa and Alcacer do Sal. Almansa was conquered the following month. The King of Norway allied with King Friedrich.
1212 Alcacer do Sal was captured at the beginning of this year. Shortly thereafter, Otto the Bastard was born to King Friedrich. Friedrich joined Norway in war against Livonia, Vodi and other pagan tribes. The Count of Aargau declared war on the King of Croatia, and King Friedrich did not join his vassal.