France, Ermentrude of

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Cunegonde

Louis married Paris, Adélaïde of about 868. Adélaïde (daughter of Paris, Adelhard of) died about 10 Nov 901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 Louis I by a second marriage. The efforts of Louis to create a kingdom for Charles were responsible for the repeated revolts of Louis's elder sons that disturbed the latter part of Louis's reign. When Lothair I, the eldest and heir to the imperial title, attempted to reunite the empire after Louis's death (840), Charles and Louis the German marched against their brother and defeated him at Fontenoy (841). Reaffirming their alliance in 842 (see Strasbourg, Oath of), they signed (843) with Lothair the Treaty of Verdun (see Verdun, Treaty of), which divided the empire into three parts. The part roughly corresponding to modern France fell to Charles. He was almost continuously at war with his brothers and their sons, with the Norsemen (or Normans, as they came to be known in France), and with rebellious subjects. When Charles's nephew Lothair, son of Lothair I and king of Lotharingia, died in 869, Charles seized his kingdom but was forced by the Treaty of Mersen (870) to divide it with Louis the German. In 875, at the death of his nephew Louis II, who had succeeded Lothair I as emperor, Charles secured the imperial crown. His reign witnessed the growth of the power of the nobles at the expense of the royal power and thus marked the rise of local feudalism. Charles's chief adviser was Archbishop Hincmar.

Charles married Orleans, QUEEN OF THE WEST FRANKS Ermentrude Countess of on 13 Dec 842 in , CrecyFrance. Ermentrude (daughter of of Orleans, Eudes (Odo) Count and Ingeltrude, Countess of Orleans) was born on 27 Sep 830 in Of, Orléans, Neustria; died on 6 Oct 869; was buried in St Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Louis I or Louis the Pious

Fr. Louis le Pieux or Louis le Débonnaire, 778-840, emperor of the West (814-40), son and successor of Charlemagne. He was crowned king of Aquitaine in 781 and co-emperor with his father in 813. His court was a learned one; his advisers included Benedict of Aniane. At the Assembly of Aachen (817) he issued an imperial order that sought to preserve the unity of the empire by breaking with tradition and not dividing the empire among his heirs. He thus made his eldest son, Lothair I, co-emperor and gave Aquitaine and Bavaria to his sons Pepin I and Louis the German. Louis's attempts to create a kingdom for Charles (later Emperor of the West Charles II), his son by a second marriage, provoked several revolts by his older sons. In 822, Louis repented publicly for his persecution of the rebels. In 830, Lothair rebelled and became virtually sole ruler of the empire. However, Pepin and Louis the German, fearing Lothair's supremacy, soon restored their father to power. Another revolt by all three sons occurred in 833. Louis met the rebels near Colmar on a field known since then as the Field of Lies (Ger. Lügenfeld) because of the general defection of the imperial troops. Louis, compelled to surrender, was formally deposed, and Lothair became sole emperor. Yet in 834, Louis the German and Pepin once more joined against Lothair and restored Louis. Later he partitioned his empire between Lothair and Charles and died while attempting to uphold the partition against the Aquitanians and Louis the German.

Bibliography:

See F. L. Ganshof, The Carolingians and the Frankish Monarchy (1971).

Louis married Bavaria, EMPRESS OF HOLY ROMAN EMP Judith Princess of in Feb 819 in Aix La Chapelle, Austrasia. Judith (daughter of Bavaria, Guelph I (Welf I) Duke of and Bavaria, Hedwig Duchess of) was born about 800 in Of, Altdorf, Bavaria; died on 19 Apr 843 in , Tours, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eudes married Ingeltrude, Countess of Orleans. Countess was born about 805 in Of, Orleans, Loiret, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]