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In 1190, at the Diet of Schwäbisch Hall in the abbey of Comburg, the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa decided that the Duke Of Lower Lotharingia , at that moment Henry I Of Brabant , would only have ducal authority within his own Lotharingian territories (the county of Leuven ) and his imperial fiefs (the margraviate of Antwerp , the Landgraviate of Brabant and the domain of the abbey of Nijvel). It should be noted however that the title of Duke of Lothier is purely honorific and has almost no territorial or juridicial authority. A few legal courts of Lothier remained in existence, though they only decided in feudal matters. Historiographically, Lothier should not be confused with the far greater Lower Lotharingia . It is only applicable to:
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