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Ansgarde of Burgundy. Louis III (863/65 – 5 August 882) was King of West Francia (precursor to France) from 879 until his death in 882. He succeeded his father Louis the Stammerer, and ruled over West Francia in tandem with his brother Carloman II. Louis controlled the northern part of West Francia ( Neustria ), including the capital of Paris ...
- 10 April 879 – 5 August 882
- Ansgarde of Burgundy
Carloman II (c. 866 – 6 December 884) was the King of West Francia (future France) from 879 until his death. A member of the Carolingian dynasty , he and his elder brother, Louis III , divided the kingdom between themselves and ruled jointly until the latter's death in 882.
- 10 April 879 – 6 December 884
- Ansgarde of Burgundy
Mar 22, 2024 · Carolingian dynasty. Louis III (born 863—died Aug. 5, 882, Saint-Denis, Fr.) was the king of France ( i.e., Francia Occidentalis, the West Frankish kingdom) from 879 to 882, whose decisive victory over the Northmen in August 881, at Saucourt, Ponthieu, briefly stemmed the incursions of the Scandinavian invaders into northern France.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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May 19, 2021 · The Carolingian Dynasty (751-887) was a family of Frankish nobles who ruled Francia and its successor kingdoms in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
- Michael Griffith
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.
Carloman was the eldest son of Louis II the German and Emma and father of the emperor Arnulf. Appointed by his father to govern the eastern frontier of Bavaria, Carloman rebelled against his father in 861 and in 862–863; nevertheless, in 865 he was entrusted with a share in Louis’s authority, being.
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 ...
