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Jun 25, 2009 · Reigned Between 814 and 840. AKA: Empereur d'Occident, Emperor of the HRE, King Of France, Lothaire Carolingian, and Louis I of the Franks. Son of Charlemagne & Hildegarde of Swabia. Louis the Pious (778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, [1] was the King of Aquitaine from 781.
Apr 11, 2018 · Louis The Pious. (King of Aquitaine, King of Franks & Co-Emperor (Holy Roman Empire)) Louis I, who was also called Louis the Pious, inherited the throne of the Frankish Empire from his father Charlemagne. He wanted to do two things: 1) rule a Christian empire and 2) have a united empire. To accomplish the first goal, he held ecclesiastical ...
Holy Roman Empire - Charlemagne's Successors: Louis I the Pious (814–840) was a man in every way different from his father. For him the word empire was to be the unifying idea holding together his various dominions, and accordingly he abandoned his separate royal titles. This was the underlying notion of the Ordinatio imperii of 817; by this, Louis made his eldest son, Lothar I, emperor with ...
Vita Hludovici. Charlemagne crowns Louis the Pious. Vita Hludovici or Vita Hludovici Imperatoris (The Life of Louis or the Life of the Emperor Louis) is an anonymous biography of Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks from AD 814 to 840.
May 19, 2021 · After Louis the Pious died in 840, Lothar I claimed authority over the entire Carolingian Empire, bringing the conflict to its height. In 843, war was halted by the Treaty of Verdun, which partitioned the Carolingian realm into three domains - East Francia, Middle Francia, and West Francia - allocated to the sons of Louis the Pious.
The document by which Louis the Pious decreed the division of the empire among his three sons, one of whom, however, was to bear the title of emperor and exercise a supervision over the other two. This was a compromise between the unity of the indivisible imperial power and the received principles of heredity.
This is a comprehensive study of the life and reign of Louis the Pious who, in the early ninth century, inherited the empire of Charlemagne. Posterity's almost unanimous view of Louis' personality and achievement is presented in damning brevity in the title of the final essay in the volume: "the great father's lesser son".
