Frankish Kingdoms 814 ? 898 ? The West Essay, Research Paper
Title to Louis ? three things: churches would be
assailed by wicked men, honoroes wrongly given or withdrawn dispute in
royal family ? basis Charlemagne?s power not necessarily solution for
successor. Still really a conglomeration of kingdoms, sunb
kingdoms ? Provence, Septimania, Burgundy ? Louis kept tradition installs
14 yr old son Pippin to Aquitaine and Lothar to Bavaria ? Italy not his as
C given to eldest son Pippin, dies 810 then given to illegitimate son
Bernard ? churchmen calling for legitimacy in succession ? trouble. Louis gets rid of Charlemagne?s old guard, uses
levers of patronage to put in his own entourage. Upon death Louis, like divisio of father, kingdom
to one son ? sub kingdoms still set up. Luis youngest son Louis given Bavaria ? Lothar made
co-emperor ? Lothar and factions gained support at court, imperial titles
and papal involvement if 816 thought going to rule Italy ? Bernard felt
threatened and rebelled ? other repercussions as royal family war focuses
for other rivalries in the regions. Bernard killed and harsh persecution supports in
Lombardy, Louis also tonsures half brothers ? Lothar becomes ascendant at
court Louis marries Judith to secure support east of the
Rhine ? weakens position sosn by first marriage so Lothar asks for own
regnum ? Neustria and Loire valley rich, fertile, monasteries, countships
etc.? Lothar sought marriage 821
and went for Hugh?s daughter Ermengard. 822 reconciliation ? rebels 818 Bernard forgiven and
half brothers back into the fold ? Lothar sent to rule Italy and Pippin of
Aquitiane married and despatched to the west. Louis showed concern for overall control in the
West ? foolish attempt in Spain led to downfall of Hugh and Matfrid ?
Bernard and Odo replace the,. Roots Louis crisis in West ? interest Louis and
sons collided ? Lothar after Neustria, Pippin resentful father?s
interferences ? coincide factional conflict magnates and in 830 High and
Matfrid eek revenge via rebellion ? Pippin invited in to join the
rebellion ? Judith bears Charles the Bald as son Louis in 823 ? Lothar as
special protector 0 create regnum for Charles in 829 ? offends Lothar as
given Alemannia, Alsace, chur and Burgundy ? lands Lothar wanted as
strategic corridor Francia and Italy ? Lothar bitter Judith and Brnard
influence at court his lack of influence in Francia. Rebels attacked by Louis with help of Louis of
Bavarisa stand firm ? pre cursor as in 831 Pippin rude back to Aquitaine
support with Bernard ? Louis deprives Pippin of Aquitaine and gave it to
Charles Pippin and brothers with Pope Gregory IV depose
Louis ? Pippin changes mind and marches from Aqutiainee ? Lothar out
manoeuvred and withdraws ? Lothar then fights Louis? men ? Louis had many
men killed but restores control. Louis sent Lothar, Hugh and Matfrid to
italy ? bishops used to stabilise control. Louis determined to secure succession 837, 38 lands
to Charles ? Pippin dies 838 disinherits Aquitaine and to Charles ?
resentment but Charles and Judith struggle on ? Louis dies 840 when trying
to fight off Louis the German in Rhineland. Weakened by 833??
Lack of government documents to 840 say yes, but neighbours still
respected in and control of minting 0 scored well father?s three criteria
? protested against spoliations of the church ? r
Aquitaine, distributed honores well avoiding rebels, imposed will in
family politics disinheriting grandsons, ruthless suppression Louis the
German keeping Lothar in Italy ? West where conflicts 833-4 won where he wanted
Charles to inherit ? Charles and uis pitted against Lother and Pippin II
in 841 ? importance Starbourg Oaths before discussing terms ? when King
fought self-interested aristocrats seldom certain how to pursue their
interests successfully ? Nilthard ? sometimes treacheorus, loyalty to
deaths prod emperor to peace settlement ? 843 Treaty of Verdun ? Lothar,
Louis and Charles trade off competing interests those Kings and their men. Three way split Frankish heartlands, abandon model
of 817 Lother and father ? continuing quest imperial unity ? Lothat tried
to make good his rights as family head and protector emperor wide church ?
death 855 son Louis II maintain imperia tradition.? Three mingdoms Lothar split his into 3
upon death, north of Alps redivided 869 absorbed into Charles and Louis I
? 843 ? 879 series ephemeral maps of the Carolingian regna ? further
revisions 888. Borders drawn at Verdun ? aristocratic interest as
well as wealth ? everyone wanted Frankish heartlands and sued aristocratic
influence in? bits not theirs. 844 Charles unexpected defeat in absence in
Aquitaine ? cause Pippin II new life ? Lothar gave support 845 and 848
Pippin II issued coins and charters ? Charles work hard to defeat him
again? -relations with Lothar improve
as try for succession of son ? threatened by Louis the German?s son Louis
the Younger in 854 and Louis the German in 858. Chalres trying to divide own kingdom with Luis
given Neustria and Charles given Aquitaine ? 860s elder sons rebelled and
Chalres crushed them ? greater automy was the aim as Charles held them on
a tight reign no charters or coins ? Charles of Aquitiane died 866 ? 867
Louis the Stammerer send to Aquitaine Room for more improvement in Lothar?s Italy ? son
Louis UU no child and Lothar died undivorced 869 ? Charles made a grab and
took Aachen in 869 but Louis recovered 870 Lother?s uncles divided up kingdom but Charles
did not get Aachen and bits he did get provoked Carolman rebellion to get
own kingdom ? Carloman tries for royal power Frankish heartlands using
some of Charles? aristocratic support ? Louis the German threatens to
intervene ? Charles puts down Carloman ferociously, then supported Louis
the German?s son in rebellion After 873 Louis the Stammerer the only son left,
made son marry another woman for personal kin support ? Boso brother in
law ? ruthless paterfamilias. 875 Louis II of Italy died ? crowned emperor Xmas
Day 875 ? Louis the German and son Louis the Younger ravish Francia, not
for territorial gain, but for plunder, aristocratic disturbance and to get
Charles out of Italy where Louis hoped to install his eldest son
Karlmann.? Gave Italy to Boso as
Viceroy and went to Fracnia restore region 876 Louis the German dies ? Chares moves not to
disinherit support but acquire lands west of Rhine acquired against Lothar
in 843 ? Chalres lost at Andernach but did not lose territory ? lost men,
treasure and equipment, Aachen beyond his reach. 877 resiliently keeps going into Italy ? Louis the
Stammerer in charge Francia ? Boso rebels for Charles, but Francia based
kingdom ? died 877 on way back.