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Carloman (848– c. 877) was the youngest son of Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, and his first wife, Ermentrude. He was intended for an ecclesiastical career from an early age, but in 870 rebelled against his father and tried to claim a part of the kingdom as an inheritance. Born in 848, Carloman was tonsured as a child in 854 in ...
Denier of Charles the Bald struck at Paris. Charles the Bald (French: Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), King of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). [1] After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis ...
- 875 – 6 October 877
- Louis the Pious
May 19, 2021 · Shortly after the death of Louis II in 875, Charles invaded Italy and usurped control from his nephew, Carloman of Bavaria. Charles the Bald died in 877, returning Italy to Carloman. In West Francia, he was succeeded by his sons, Louis the Stammerer (Louis II of West Francia; r. 877-879) and Carloman II of West Francia (r. 879-884).
- Michael Griffith
to Charles the Bald's benevolence as reflected in his granting pardon to a cruel tyrant, who must have been his rebellious son Carloman. Since Carloman was Abbot of the Abbey of St Amand (867-871), the possibility that the manuscript I Charles the Bald willed that his library be divided into three parts after his death. One part, evi-
Carloman ( German: Karlmann, Latin: Karlomannus; c. 830 – 22 March 880) was a Frankish king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was the eldest son of Louis the German, king of East Francia, and Hemma, daughter of a Bavarian count. His father appointed him governor of Carantania in 856, and commander of southeastern frontier marches in 864.
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He had made arrangements to partition his kingdom in 864, with Bavaria and the East Mark to go to Carloman, Saxony and Franconia to Louis the Younger, and Alemannia (Swabia) to Charles III (the Fat). Although Louis the German managed to gain a portion of Lotharingia in 870, he was unable to prevent Charles the Bald’s coronation as emperor (875).
Carloman (died Dec. 12, 884) was the second son of Louis II and king of France or the West Franks (882–884). On Louis II’s death (879) Carloman was associated with his brother Louis III as king of the West Franks, but both, as the children of a first marriage that had been unacceptable to their grandfather Charles the Bald, had difficulty in obtaining recognition.
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