LOTHAR, I. Holy Roman Emperor

I. — IRMENGARD. [Group Sheet]

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Louis I or Louis the Pious

Fr. Louis le Pieux or Louis le Dbonnaire, 778-840, emperor of the West(814-40), son and succe ssor of Charlemagne. He was crowned king ofAquitaine in 781 and co-emperor with his father i n 813. His court was alearned one; his advisers included Benedict of Aniane. At the Assembl y ofAachen (817) he issued an imperial order that sought to preserve theunity of the empire b y breaking with tradition and not dividing theempire among his heirs. He thus made his eldes t son, Lothair I,co-emperor and gave Aquitaine and Bavaria to his sons Pepin I and Louisthe G erman. Louis's attempts to create a kingdom for Charles (laterEmperor of the West Charles II) , his son by a second marriage, provokedseveral revolts by his older sons. In 822, Louis repe nted publicly forhis persecution of the rebels. In 830, Lothair rebelled and becamevirtuall y sole ruler of the empire. However, Pepin and Louis the German,fearing Lothair's supremacy , soon restored their father to power. Anotherrevolt by all three sons occurred in 833. Loui s met the rebels nearColmar on a field known since then as the Field of Lies (Ger. Lügenfeld) because of the general defection of the imperial troops. Louis, compelledto surrender, was fo rmally deposed, and Lothair became sole emperor. Yetin 834, Louis the German and Pepin once m ore joined against Lothair andrestored Louis. Later he partitioned his empire between Lothai r andCharles and died while attempting to uphold the partition against theAquitanians and Lou is the German.

Louis married HESBAIN, Irmengard Of 798. [Group Sheet]

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Charlemagne or Charles the Great

King of the Franks (771--814), and emperor of the West (800--14), theeldest son of Pepin th e Short. He defeated the Saxons (772--804) and theLombards (773--4), fought the Arabs in Spai n, and took control of most ofChristian W Europe. In 800 he was crowned emperor by Pope Leo I II. In hislater years he consolidated his vast empire, building palaces andchurches, and prom oting Christianity, education, agriculture, the arts,manufacture, and commerce, so much so th at the period has become known asthe Carolingian Renaissance. His reign was an attempt to con solidateorder and Christian culture among the nations of the West, but his empiredid not lon g survive his death, for his sons lacked both his vision andauthority.

married D'ALEMANNIE, Hildegard 771. Hildegard (daughter of GEROLD, I. and D'ALEMANNIE, Imma) was born 758, Aix-La-Chapelle (Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia); died 30 Apr 783, Thionville, Moselle, France. [Group Sheet]

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Pepin III

King of the Franks (751--68), founder of the Frankish dynasty of theCarolingians, the fathe r of Charlemagne. The son of Charles Martel, hewas chosen king after the deposition of Childe ric, the last of theMerovingians. He led an army into Italy (754), and defeated the Lombards. The rest of his life was spent in wars against the Saxons and Saracens.

Pepin — DE LAON, Bertrude. Bertrude (daughter of HARDRAD, Caribert and BERTRADE) was born 720, Laon, Aisne, France; died 12 Jul 783, Choisy-Au-Bac, Haute-Savoie, France. [Group Sheet]

I. — D'ALEMANNIE, Imma. [Group Sheet]