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Jun 1, 2008 · Struggle for Empire is an important and welcome addition to the stable of recent and forthcoming scholarly English-language Carolingian biographies, which, spanning four generations, includes Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat. But though the well-told and sometimes even touching story of Louis' long life drives ...
Louis I had carefully planned his three elder sons’ inheritances, but from 829 onward his attempts to allocate substantial territory to the future Charles II (the Bald), his young son by a second wife, led to revolts by Charles’s half brothers. After Louis’s death (840) open warfare broke out; Louis’s third son, Louis the German, allied ...
Nov 14, 2018 · The former empire of Charlemagne and Louis I was divided between Louis the German (r. 843-876 CE) who took East Francia (later Germany), Lothair (r. 843-855 CE), Middle Francia (later the site of the Kingdom of Lotharingia and, later still, the Alsace-Lorraine region), while Charles the Bald took West Francia. The animosity between the three ...
On several occasions, Lothair led his full-brothers Pepin I of Aquitaine and Louis the German in revolt against their father to protest against attempts to make their half-brother Charles the Bald a co-heir to the Frankish domains. Upon the father's death, Charles and Louis joined forces against Lothair in a three-year civil war (840–843).
Jun 8, 2018 · Lothair’s son, Emperor Louis II (855–875), was followed as the Frankish Emperor by his uncle Charles the Bald (875–877), who was followed by his nephew (and Louis II’s first-cousin ...
Charles The Bald. This important and long-awaited study is the first full-scale biography of Charlemagne's grandson, King of the West Franks from 843 to 877, and Emperor from 875. Posterity has not been kind to Charles or his age, seeing him as a fatally weak ruler in decadent times, threatened by Viking invaders and overmighty subjects.
Louis the Younger (830/835 – 20 January 882), sometimes called Louis the Saxon or Louis III, was the second eldest of the three sons of Louis the German and Hemma. He succeeded his father as the King of Eastern Francia on 28 August 876 and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria from 879 to 882.
