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Louis was one of Charlemagne's three legitimate sons to survive infancy. His twin brother, Lothair, died during infancy. According to the Frankish custom of partible inheritance, Louis had expected to share his inheritance with his brothers, Charles the Younger, King of Neustria, and Pepin, King of Italy.
Jun 16, 2024 · Louis I was a Carolingian ruler of the Franks who succeeded his father, Charlemagne, as emperor in 814 and whose 26-year reign (the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV [1056–1106]) was a central and controversial stage in the Carolingian experiment to fashion a new European society.
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Dec 3, 2018 · Louis I (byname the Pious, the Fair, or the Debonair) was a King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor belonging to the Carolingian Dynasty. He lived between the 8 th and 9 th centuries AD and reigned for 26 years. His reign was the longest of any medieval Holy Roman Emperor until Henry IV.
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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.
- Casseneuil, Aquitaine
- Unknown Concubine of Louis I
- Aquitaine
- "Ludwig der Fromme", "Louis le Pieux"
Dec 16, 2023 · Louis the Pious & his Sons. The Frankish Empire at the start of Louis the Pious’ rule, including its constituent kingdoms, by Undevicesimus, via Deviantart. Louis, though thankful to his father, was also critical of him. He did not believe his father had gone far enough in expanding Christendom.
Treaty of Verdun, (August 843), treaty partitioning the Carolingian empire among the three surviving sons of the emperor Louis I (the Pious). The treaty was the first stage in the dissolution of the empire of Charlemagne and foreshadowed the formation of the modern countries of western Europe.
Jan 8, 2020 · As emperor, Louis initiated reforms and redefined the relationship between the Frankish empire and the papacy. He carefully structured a system whereby various territories could be assigned to his three grown sons while the empire remained intact.
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