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    Louis the Pious (Latin: Hludowicus Pius; French: Louis le Pieux; German: Ludwig der Fromme; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the...
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    Deutschland), was the first king of East Francia, and ruled from 843 to 876 AD. Grandson of emperor Charlemagne and the third son of Louis the Pious, emperor of...
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    for the emperor who, in 839, designated his grandson as King of Italy, and let Louis take up his residence in that country. Louis the Pious died the next...
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    emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis the Pious, Charles succeeded, by the Treaty...
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    Lothair I (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and Germany. Lothair was born in 795, to Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye. His father was the son of the reigning Emperor, Charlemagne. Little is...
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    Gisela (born 820) was the only daughter of Louis the Pious and his second wife, Judith of Bavaria. She married the powerful and influential Eberhard, Duke...
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    city. He was succeeded by his only surviving legitimate son, Louis the Pious. After Louis, the Frankish kingdom was divided and eventually coalesced into...
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    phase in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. After a civil war (840–843) following the death of Emperor Louis the Pious, the empire was divided into...
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  • Eberhard of Friuli (category Saints from the Carolingian Empire)
    parentage is debated. His marriage to the daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious cemented his eminent position at the Frankish court. Paternity theories His...
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  • and by teaching the doctrine of salvation might induce them to receive the faith of the Lord." During the reign of Louis the Pious, the Frankish Empire...
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    people by the emperor at Ingelheim. Nominoe was a staunch ally of Louis the Pious until the emperor's death in 840. He supported Louis in the several civil...
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  • previously Louis X, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Louis the Pious, Louis I of France, "the Pious" (778–840), king of France and Holy Roman Emperor Louis I of...
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    Louis V (c. 966 or 967 – 22 May 987), also known as Louis the Do-Nothing (French: Louis le Fainéant), was a king of West Francia from 979 (co-reigning...
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    Louis the Stammerer (French: Louis le Bègue; 1 November 846 – 10 April 879) was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest...
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    Pepin I of Aquitaine (category Monarchs of the Carolingian Empire)
    838) was King of Aquitaine and Duke of Maine. Pepin was the second son of Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye. When his father...
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  • Missus dominicus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    legitimate son, Louis the Pious (ruling 813–840),the process of disintegration was hastened. Once the king associated the choice of missi with the assembly of...
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    of the emperor Louis II Louis the German (Louis II), the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife Louis the Child (Louis III), the last...
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    Carolingian Empire following the death of Louis the Pious, with its neighbor East Francia eventually evolving into the Kingdom of Germany. West Francia extended...
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    818) was the illegitimate son of Pepin of Italy (King of Italy) from 810 to 818. He plotted against his uncle, Emperor Louis the Pious, when the latter's...
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    survived infancy: Lothair, the eldest son and future King – that Flodoard cites not to be confused with the son of Louis the Pious: Lotharius puer, filius...
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    Carolingian dynasty (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    every monarch of France from Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious till the penultimate monarch of France Louis Philippe have been his descendants. His death...
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    Louis the Blind (c. 880 – 5 June 928) was the king of Provence from 11 January 887, king of Italy from 12 October 900, and briefly emperor between 901...
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    Pepin of Italy (category Monarchs of the Carolingian Empire)
    Charlemagne and Hildegard brought Carloman along with his younger brother Louis the Pious and sisters Rotrude and Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne to Rome at...
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  • Ermengarde of Hesbaye (category Women from the Carolingian Empire)
    emperor Louis the Pious. Ermengarde was the daughter of Count Ingerman of Hesbaye and Rotrude. About 794 Ermengarde married Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne...
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    by Krieger, Angela. Palgrave Macmillan. Kendall, Paul Murray (1971). Louis XI: The Universal Spider. Compton Printing Ltd. Knecht, Robert J. (2016). Hero...
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  • noblewoman, the daughter of Eberhard of Friuli, Duke of Friuli, and Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious. Judith was a granddaughter of Louis the Pious and great-granddaughter...
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  • as the heir of the bulk of Charlemagne's lands but predeceased his father, leaving the empire to be inherited by his younger brother Louis the Pious. Charles...
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  • He supported Emperor Lothar after the death of Emperor Louis the Pious, despite having sworn allegiance to Charles the Bald. Pepin’s wife is unknown; their...
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    Drogo of Metz (category Bishops in the Carolingian Empire)
    Pious (Emperor Louis I) after their father died. In the collection of Einhard's Charters, there is one written in 815 by Louis the Pious in which he grants...
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    Imperatoris (The Life of Louis or the Life of the Emperor Louis) is an anonymous biography of Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks from...
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