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Louis I "The Pious" Lothair Of DE AQUITAINE, Holy Roman Emperor[1, 2]
778 - 840 (62 years)-
Name Louis I "The Pious" Lothair Of DE AQUITAINE Suffix Holy Roman Emperor Nickname The Pious Birth 16 Apr 778 Chasseneuil, Aquitaine, Gironde, France 
Gender Male Name The Pious _UID 0568683C090444A58C5F9CD212B03E3B9BFB Death 20 Jun 840 Castle Of Ingelheim, Germany Burial Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia Person ID I11287 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 29 Dec 2022
Father Charlemagne De FRANCE, King Of The Franks, b. 2 Apr 747, Aachen, Rhineland, Germany d. 28 Jan 814, Aix-La-Chapelle, Aachen, Rhineland, Germany (Age 66 years) Mother Queen Hildegard Of SWABIA, Countess Of Vinzgau, b. 758 d. 30 Apr 783, , Thionville, Moselle, France (Age 25 years) Marriage 771 Aix-La-Chapelle, Aachen, Rhineland, Germany Family ID F2729 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Concubine, [Concubine 1], b. Abt 777, , France d. Yes, date unknown Marriage Not Married Children 1. Arnould Of The WEST, Count Of Sens, b. Abt 794, , France d. Aft 817 (Age ~ 24 years)Family ID F4943 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
Family 2 Princess Ermengarde DE HESBANIA, Empress, Hre, b. Abt 778, Of Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium, Belgium d. 3 Oct 818, Angers, France (Age ~ 40 years) Marriage Feb 798 , France Children 1. Aelis Of FRANCE, Princess, France d. Bef 890 2. Emperor Lothair I (Lothar) Of The WEST, Of The Holy Roman Empire, b. 795, Of Altdorf, Bavaria d. 29 Sep 855, Pruem, Rheinland, Prussia (Age 60 years)3. Hildegarde FRANCE, Princess, b. 802, Of France d. 23 Aug 860, Laon, Belgium (Age 58 years)4. Pepin I King AQUITAINE, King, b. Abt 803, Of France d. 13 Dec 835-838 (Age ~ 35 years)5. Ludwig II (Louis) "The German", King, b. Abt 806, France d. 28 Aug 876, Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia (Age ~ 70 years)6. Rotrude, Princess, b. Abt 810, Of France d. Yes, date unknown7. Of The WEST, Princess Of West, b. Abt 812, , France d. Aft 841 (Age ~ 30 years)8. Empire/Princess Adaelaeide (Adelheld), Of The Holy Roman Empire, b. Abt 824, Of Tours, France d. 868 (Age ~ 44 years)Family ID F5690 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
Family 3 Empress Judith The Fair Of BAVARIA, Princess Of Bavaria, b. 805, Of Altdorf, Bavaria d. 19 Apr 843, Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, Touraine, France (Age 38 years) Marriage Feb 818-819 Aix La Chapelle, Austrasia Children 1. Gisele FRANCE, Princess Of France, b. 819 d. 1 Jul 874, , Italy (Age 55 years)2. Emperor Charles II "The Bald", Holy Roman Empire, b. 13 Jun 823, Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia d. 6 Oct 877, Brides Les Bains, Bourgogne (Age 54 years)Family ID F5680 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - BIOGRAPHY: Louis I (Holy Roman Empire), called 'The Pious' (778-840). He was the son and sole successor of Charlemagne. In 817 Louis made plans for an orderly succession among his sons: Lothair I, Louis II (Louis the German), and Pepin of Aquitaine. Later he wanted to include in the succession Charles II (Charles the Bald), his son by a second marriage. Dissatisfied, his older sons rebelled (830, 833) against him and fought among themselves for supremacy as well. Pepin died in 838, and in 843 the empire was divided among the three surviving brothers (see Verdun, Treaty of), Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia. Alias: Louis the /Pious/, Ludwig the Pious Custom Field:<_FA#> BET. 781 - 814King of Aquitaine Custom Field:<_FA#> BET. 814 - 840King of Franks/Franki sh Emperor Louis was crowned king of Aquitaine in 781 to slow rebellion after Charlemagne's defeat in Spain by the Saracen Moslems. In 793, the Saracens in vaded Aquitaine under Caliph Hisham. In 795, the Spanish March was created wi th William as its Count. The next year, King Louis and Count William defeated the Saracens and secured the Frankish-held areas of northeast Spain. The con tinued to fight the Saracens until 813 when all of Navarre was conquered by Wi lliam and Louis. In 806, Charlemagne wrote in his will that his sons Louis, Cha rles, and Pepin would divide the Empire on his death. Pepin died in 810 and Charles followed in 811. By 813, Byzantine nobles came to Charlemagne to reco gnize him as Emperor (he was 69 years old), and so he ordered Louis to come fr om Aquitaine to be crowned co-Emperor and designated successor. When Charlema gne died in 814, Louis succeeded to all thrones. Louis put his son, Pepin, on t he throne of Aquitaine, made Lothar co-Emperor, and made his son, Louis, king of Bavaria. Louis "the Pious" first reformed the court in a "moral purge" by sending all of the unmarried princesses to nunneries and sending Charlemagne's three illegitimate sons to monasteries. He then put down a rebellion in Ita ly. When his wife, Irmengard/Ermengard, died, he remarried "Black Judith" of the Alamanic race of the Welfs. He'd already made his three sons, Pepin, Loui s, and Lothar his successors. However, when his son, Charles, was born in 823 , he tried desperately to include him in the succession. In 829, he dropped L othar's imperial title as co-Emperor and sent him off to Italy. The next year , the three brothers united and attacked their father, forcing him to abdicate . They demanded that Lothar be given back his imperial title and they sent Ju dith off to a nunnery. By 831, however, Louis the Pious managed to regain his power, bring back his wife, drop Lothar completely from his will and replace him with Charles, and refused to allow Lothar to ever return to court without permission. That same year, Pepin of Aquitaine revolted on his own and Louis o f Bavaria followed the next year. Emperor Louis declared that Pepin was form ally deposed of his titles, but he could not enforce this order. In 833, the three brothers gained support from Pope Gregory IV and many of the Emperor's o wn generals. Lothar made a settlement; Louis and Charles were imprisoned; Jud ith was sent in exile to Italy under the eye of Lother; Louis of Bavaria and P epin of Aquitaine were to gain territory that was formally under imperial auth ority. By 834 Pepin and Louis released their father and brother from jail, Ju dith was brought back, and peace was made. In 835, Louis was re-crowned with great pomp. Pepin died in 838 and Louis put Charles on the throne of Aquitaine. The nobles, however, put Pepin's son, Pepin II, on the throne. Neither Cha rles nor Pepin II held authority. Louis the Pious died in 840 and a civil war ensued over the Empire's division that lasted until peace was finally made in 843.
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