Louis the German (11 agos 843 anni – 23 agos 876 anni)

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Grandson of emperor Charlemagne and the third son of emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye. Louis was the first king of East Francia. When Louis the Pious divided his dominions between his sons in 817, Louis was made the ruler of Duchy of Bavaria (Lothair was heir/co-emperor and king of Italy, and Pepin received Aquitaine). When the emperor Louis died in 840, and Lothair claimed the whole Empire, Louis allied with his half-brother Charles the Bald, and defeated Lothair I and their nephew Pepin II (son of Pepin I, who had died in 838), at the Battle of Fontenoy in June 841. The empire was finally divided in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun in three parts, with Louis becoming the King of East Francia, a region that spanned the Elbe drainage basin from Jutland southeasterly through the Thuringian Forest into modern Bavaria. The later years of Louis the German were troubled by rebellions of his sons. The eldest, Carloman of Bavaria, revolted in 861 and again two years later. This was followed by the second son Louis the Younger, who was joined by his brother Charles the Fat. In 864 Louis was forced to grant Carloman the kingdom of Bavaria, which he himself had once held under his father. In 865 he divided the remainder of his lands - Saxony with Franconia and Thuringia went to Louis the Younger and Swabia with Raetia to Charles the Fat. A report that the emperor Louis II of Italy had died led to a peace between father and sons and attempts by Louis the German to gain the imperial crown for his oldest son Carloman. These efforts were thwarted by Louis II of Italy who was in fact not dead, and Louis' old adversary, Charles the Bald. Louis was preparing for a new war when he died on August 28, 876 in Frankfurt. He was buried at the abbey of Lorsch, leaving three sons and three daughters. His sons, unusual for their earlier behaviour, respected the divisions made a decade earlier and each contented himself with his own kingdom.

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