Kingdom of Arles

Kingdom of Arles
Royaume d’Arles  (French)
Kingdom of the Holy Roman Empire (from 1032)
933–1378
The Kingdom of Arles/Burgundy within Europe at the beginning of the 11th century
Burgundy in the 12–13th century:   Kingdom of Arles   French Duchy of Burgundy   Ducal dependencies
Capital		Arles
Government		Monarchy
Historical era		High Middle Ages
•	Union of Upper and Lower kingdoms	933
•	Rudolph III pledged succession to King Henry II of Germany	May 1006
•	Rudolph III died without issue; kgdm inherited by Emperor Conrad II	6 September 1032
•	Emp. Charles IV detached the County of Savoy	1361
•	Charles IV appointed Charles, Dauphin of France as permanent Imperial vicar	1378
Area
•	1000	133,400 km² (51,506 sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by Upper Burgundy Lower Burgundy County of Burgundy County of Savoy
Today part of		France   Switzerland  Italy

The Kingdom of Arles (Arelat) or Second Kingdom of Burgundy was a Frankish dominion established from lands of the early medieval Kingdom of the Burgundians in 933 by the merger of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy under King Rudolf II.

The new kingdom was named after the Lower Burgundian residence at Arles. Its territory stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the High Rhine in the north, roughly corresponding to the present-day French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes and Franche-Comté, as well as western Switzerland. It was ruled by independent kings until 1032, after which it was incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire.

Since the conquest of the First Burgundian kingdom by the Franks in 534, its territory had been ruled within the Frankish and Carolingian Empire. In 843, the three surviving sons of Emperor Louis the Pious, who had died in 840, signed the Treaty of Verdun which partitioned the Carolingian Empire between them: the former Burgundian kingdom became part of Middle Francia, which was allotted to Emperor Lothair I (Lotharii Regnum), with the exception of the later Duchy of Burgundy—the present-day Bourgogne—, which went to Charles the Bald, king of West Francia. King Louis the German received East Francia, comprising the territory east of the Rhine River.