Lotharingiae et Utriusque Alsatiae in Ditiones minores divisarum..

Title

Lotharingiae et Utriusque Alsatiae in Ditiones minores divisarum..

Description

Map of the Duchy of Lorraine and Alsace, showing the cities of Nancy, Toul, Metz, Colmar, Strasbourg, Hagenau, Zabern, as well as Basel in Switzerland and Freiburg im Breisgau. It also features a magnificent title cartouche with allegorical scenes and two coats of arms of the Duke of Lorraine.

ca. 1680

Artist

Danckerts (1655-1700)

The Danckerts family sold and published maps during the 17th Century in Amsterdam. Justus Danckerts, the son of the business founder Cornelius Danckerts (c. 1603- c. 1656), was born 1635. He has published several Atlases together with his son Theodorus between 1680 and 1700. The plates finally have been sold to R. & J. Ottens who published them under their own name. Danckerts died in 1701.

Historical Description

The area around the Moselle, populated mainly by Celtic tribes, was conquered by Gaius Iulius Caesar in the Gallic War between 58 and 51 BC and later became part of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica. From a division of the Frankish Empire into three parts, the Lotharii Regnum, the "Empire of Lothar" or Lotharingia, named after its king, emerged in 843. s lay in the middle between the East and West Frankish Empires and originally stretched as an elongated territory from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. In 870, the area was again divided between the East and West Frankish Empires.