FRANCE, Charles King Of

823 - 877  (54 years)

• Name	FRANCE, Charles King Of
  Nickname	The Bald
  Born	13 Jun 823	Frankfurt Am Main
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Oct 877	Bride-Les-Bain, Avrieux, Dauphine, France (Or Modano)
  Person ID	I4924	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	EMPORER, Louis I. Holy Roman,   b. 16 Aug 778, Chasseneul, Lot-En-Garonne, Aquitaine, France ,   d. 20 Jun 840, Petersaue, Germany  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	BAVARIA, Judith Of
  Family ID	F1938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ementrude D'Orlean Queen Of,   d. 6 Oct 869, Saint-Denis, Ile-De-France, France
  Married	842
  Children	1. OF AQUITAINE, Charles King,   d. 866   2. CARLOMAN,   d. 876   3. JUDITH Queen Of Saxony,   b. 844,   d. 870  (Age 26 years)   4. THE STAMMERER, Louis II King Of France,   b. 846,   d. 879  (Age 33 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F1934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Charles II or Charles the Bald 823-77, emperor of the West (875-77) and king of the West Franks(843-77); son of Emperor Loui s I by a second marriage. The efforts ofLouis to create a kingdom for Charles were responsibl e for the repeatedrevolts of Louis's elder sons that disturbed the latter part of Louis'sreig n. When Lothair I, the eldest and heir to the imperial title,attempted to reunite the empir e after Louis's death (840), Charles andLouis the German marched against their brother and de feated him atFontenoy (841). Reaffirming their alliance in 842 (see Strasbourg, Oathof), the y signed (843) with Lothair the Treaty of Verdun (see Verdun,Treaty of), which divided the em pire into three parts. The part roughlycorresponding to modern France fell to Charles. He wa s almostcontinuously at war with his brothers and their sons, with the Norsemen(or Normans, a s they came to be known in France), and with rebellioussubjects. When Charles's nephew Lothai r, son of Lothair I and king ofLotharingia, died in 869, Charles seized his kingdom but was f orced bythe Treaty of Mersen (870) to divide it with Louis the German. In 875, atthe death o f his nephew Louis II, who had succeeded Lothair I as emperor,Charles secured the imperial cr own. His reign witnessed the growth of thepower of the nobles at the expense of the royal pow er and thus marked therise of local feudalism. Charles's chief adviser was Archbishop Hincmar .