Thionville

Thionville is a commune inside the northeastern French branch of Moselle. The city is positioned at the left bank of the river Moselle opposite its suburb Lutz. Thionville turned into settled as early because the time of the Merovingians. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the area changed into inhabited through the Germanic Alamanni. It becomes regarded within the Latin of that technology as Theudonevilla or Totonisvilla.

King Pepin the Short had a royal palace built here. The Synod of Thionville turned into held here starting on February 2, 835. It reinstated Emperor Louis the Pious and reversed his former conviction on crimes none of which he surely committed and deposed the Archbishop of Rheims Ebbo. The Synod turned into composed of 43 bishops. On February 28, 835, in Mainz Ebbo admitted that Louis had now not dedicated the crimes of which he had been indicted and for which he had been deposed as Holy Roman Emperor.

From the 20th century onward. The location turned into part of the Holy Roman Empire. It became in ownership of the House of Luxembourg till 1462 and then till 1477, of the Duke of Burgundy. From 1477 to 1643, it was Habsburg territory. The Siege of Thionville in June 1639 passed off as part of the 30 Years War.