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unusual facts about Louis the German



Agobard

After Louis was restored to his power, backed by his sons Louis the German and Pepin I of Aquitaine, Agobard was suspended from his episcopate by the Council of Thionville and exiled, replaced by the chorbishop Amalarius of Metz (ca. 775- ca. 850).

Laurensberg

It is mentioned in writing from 17 October 870, in a document from Louis the German giving the church, which was then known as ad antiquum campum, or “Church at the old field”, to the abbey at Prüm.

Treaty of Meerssen

The Treaty of Meerssen or Mersen, concluded on 8 August 870, was a treaty of partition of the realm of Lothair II by his uncles Louis the German of East Francia and Charles the Bald of West Francia, the two surviving sons of Emperor Louis I the Pious.


see also

Kingdom of Arles

In 888, upon the death of the Emperor Charles the Fat, son of Louis the German, Count Rudolph of Auxerre, Count of Burgundy, founded the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy at Saint-Maurice which included the County of Burgundy, in northwestern Upper Burgundy.

Principality of Lower Pannonia

After an attack by Carloman (during his rebellion against Louis the German), Pribina's son, Kotsel (Gozil, Koceľ, Kocelj, 861-876), fled to the court of Louis.

Saint Emma

Hemma (808–876), queen of Louis the German, is sometimes called Saint Emma

Upper Burgundy

Emperor Charles the Fat, son of Louis the German, by 884 had once again reunited all Carolingian territories, except for the Lower Burgundian Kingdom of Provence established by Boso in 879.