Upper Burgundy

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Upper Burgundy
888–933
Main regions of historical Burgundy, with Upper Burgundy encompassing Transjurane regions (light green)
Common languages	Vulgar Latin Old French Old High German
Government	Kingdom
Historical era	Early Medieval
• Established	888
• Disestablished	933

Upper Burgundy (Latin: Burgundia superior; French: Bourgogne supérieure) was a historical region in the early medieval Burgundy, and a distinctive realm known as the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy, that existed from 888 to 933, when it was incorporated into the reunited Kingdom of Burgundy. During that period, Upper Burgundy was encompassing the entire Transjurane Burgundy (fr. Bourgogne transjurane, lat. Transiurania), southeast of (Latin: trans in the sense of 'beyond') the Jura Mountains, together with the adjacent County of Burgundy (modern region of Franche-Comté) to the northwest. The adjective 'upper' referred to its location upstream in the Rhône river valley, as distinct from Lower Burgundy (Cisjurane Burgundy with Provence) and also from the Duchy of Burgundy west of the Saône river. The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy was established in 888 by the Welf king Rudolph I of Burgundy within the territory of former Middle Francia. Upper Burgundy reunited with the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy in 933 to form the Kingdom of Burgundy, that existed until 1032.^[1][2][3][4]