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Louis the Stammerer. Louis II, known as Louis the Stammerer ( French: Louis le Bègue; 1 November 846 – 10 April 879), was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Emperor Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. [1] Louis the Stammerer was physically weak and outlived his father by a year and a half.
Apr 18, 2021 · The Treaty of Verdun in 843 CE partitioned the Kingdom of the Franks into West Francia (green), East Francia (orange), and Middle Francia (yellow) and allocated them to Charles the Bald, Louis the German, and Lothair I respectively. The Treaty of Mersen (Meerssen) in 870 CE dissolved Middle Francia by establishing an independent Kingdom of ...
Charles the Bald. 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 the Pious, Charles ...
West Francia, also known as the West Frankish Kingdom or Francia Occidentalis, was a short-lived kingdom. It was the lands of the western part of the Carolingian Empire. They came under the control of Charlemagne's grandson, Charles the Bald, as a result of the Treaty of Verdun of 843.
Mar 28, 2008 · the area over which the ‘west Frankish’ kings exercised meaningful authority contracted during the tenth century and new units of power emerged. These have customarily been termed ‘territorial principalities’ since the publication of Jan Dhondt’s important book. By the early eleventh century the monarchy was effectively confined to ...
The term Regnum Franciae (Kingdom of France) appears first in 1205, once again in contrast to the older Regnum Francorum (Kingdom of the Franks). This is when historians have traditionally located the change from West Francia to France, although there may be earlier instances of Regnum Franciae that I don't know of.
Odo ( French: Eudes; c. 857 – 1 January 898) was the elected King of West Francia from 888 to 898. He was the first king from the Robertian dynasty, the parent house of the House of Capet. Before assuming the kingship, Odo was the count of Paris. [2] His reign marked the definitive separation of West Francia from the Carolingian Empire, which ...
