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Louis I The Pious King of France, Holy Roman Emperor1
b. August 778, d. 20 June 840, #23361
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Father   Charlemagne , Emperor of the West b. 2 April 742, d. 28 January 814
Mother   Hildegarde de Vinzgau b. 758, d. 30 April 783

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Name Variation Louis I The Pious King of France, Holy Roman Emperor was also found as Louis I "The Fair" King of France.2 
Name Variation Louis I The Pious King of France, Holy Roman Emperor was also found as Louis I Holy Roman Emperor.3 
Birth* August 778 Louis I The Pious was born in August 778 at near Poitiers, France.2,4 
bapt2* 15 April 781 Louis I The Pious King of France, Holy Roman Emperor was baptized on on 15 April 781 in at Rome, Italy, by Pope Hadrian I.1 
Title* 16 April 781 Louis I The Pious King of France, Holy Roman Emperor given the title of an unknown place on 16 April 781 which was Easter Sundy. He was only 2 or 3 years old at this time by Pope Hadrian I, at the same time as his older brother Pepin was made King of Italy. Louis, whose twin brother had died at birth, was the third of Charlemagne's sons by his wife Hildegard.5,1 
AssocWith* before 794 Louis was associated with Theudelinde de Sens though not married. 
Marriage* circa 794 Louis I The Pious King of France, Holy Roman Emperor married Irmengarde of Hesbain, daughter of Ingram Count of Hasbania in Saxony, circa 794.6  
!AInfoNew 800 Between 800 and 837: Louis I established monasteries in Nouaille (a cell of St. Hilaire of Poitiers), Gellone and St. Martin-de-Tours.1 
!AInfoNew 810 After the death of his brothers Pepin and Charles in 810 and 811 respectively, Louis was crowned at Aachen on 13 September 813, Emperor and heir to all of Charlemagne's lands, by Charlemagne himself without any assistance nor even the presence of the Pope. All sources, Frankish as well as papal, refer to Louis as emperor from then on. Charlemagne died 5 months later. All of Louis' sisters were required to quit the palace and retire to their own estates. His cousins, the offsprings of Bernard (Pepin III's half brother) were exhiled: Louis forced Count Wala to become a monk at Corbie; Adalhard was exhiled to Noirmoutier to be held there in custody by the Abbot; Bernhard returned to Lerin and Gundrada had to retreat to St. Radegund's convent of Sainte Croix in Poitiers. Only Theodrada was left unmolested as abbess of Notre Dame at Soissons.1 
!AInfoNew* 28 January 814 On his father's death, he was crowned Emperor and he made his son Lothar, co emperor. He was the only surving son of Charlemagne. However, he leaned more to religion than rulership, and he divided the lands among HIS three sons at the time, Pepin, Lothar, and Ludwig, and then devoted his life to worship. (His father had specifically forbade him to worship as he did.). The first years of his government were quite successful, but in 817 he yielded to the wishes of his sons and gave each of them a share of his dominions, and hence arose complications which he was incapable of managing and from which resulted the dissolution of the Empire. When his first wife died, he married, Judith, and had a fourth son, Charles "the Bald." He attempted to redivide the lands into four parts and this promptly degenerated into a bitter war amongst all the sons. At it's conclusion, the Treaty of Verdun broke Charlemagnes great empire into three weaker fragments, coinciding, roughtly with France (which went to Charles, considered the first king of France), Germany (to Ludwig), and Italy (to Lothair). Pepin had gone insane and died in 838.

Called The Pious (778-840), Holy Roman emperor (814-40), king of France (814-40), king of Germany (814-40), and king of Aquitaine (781-840). He was the son of Charlemagne, king of the Franks. In 817 Louis made plans providing for the posthumous division of the Carolingian Empire among his three surviving sons, Lothair I, Holy Roman emperor, Louis II, king of Germany, and Charles II, Holy Roman emperor. His reign, however, was troubled by quarrels with his sons, who were dissatisfied with his arrangements for the succession. Louis was physically strong but was easily influenced and was unequal to administering the large empire that he inherited from his father.7,4,2,8 
!AInfoNew 27 February 814 On 27 February 814, upon learning of the death of his father, and at the age of 36 years, he left Doue-la-Fontaine, in Anjou, to go to Aix-la-Chapelle. This new emperor, enterred this capital, and poised himself in front of the tomb of Charlemagne. So oversome with grief, his forehead touched the stone floor of the church. Hence the name "Le Pieux". Since he was kind, relative to his times, he was also known as "Le Debonnaire". For himself, he preferred to adopt the title "by divine Providence, Emperor Augustus".1 
!AInfoNew 5 October 816 When Pope Leo died in May of 816, Stephen IV was elected Pope, and crowned Louis the Emperor on Sunday 5 October by placing a crown on his head during mass at Rheims. He also secured the release of some Roman exhiles in Francia. This crowning was among the first attempts to integrate the Papacy into the institutional framework of the Empire. Louis, 'lest he be led astray in satisfying the natural desires of the body' married Ermengarde, daughter of Count Ingramn. It appears that they had been living together for some time before that marriage.1 
!AInfoNew 819 Charlemagne established Doue-la-Fontaine, Chasseneuil (Louis' birthplace), Angeac and Ebreuil as royal residences to maintain Louis and his household. At an assembly in Aachen in July 817, Louis made provisions for his sons' inheritance through the "Ordinatio Imperii". In his preface he states that the unity of the empire preserved for Louis by God should not be destroyed by men. Lothar was given the title of emperor, and as co-ruler with his father at once made heir to the empire, and appointed King of Italy in the event of his father's death. Bernard, then King of Italy was not mentioned, but the implication is that Bernard would be subordinate to Lothar should Louis die. Pepin was made King of Aquitaine (plus Gascony, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Autun, Avallon and Nevers) and Louis, The German, was made King of Bavaria (plus Carinthia, Bohemia, the lands of the Avars and Slavs and the royal manors of Lauterhofen and Ingolstadt). Pepin and Louis were to meet on an annual basis with Lothar to consult and together find "measures to take in the interest of perpetual peace". They could neither start a war nor marry without the approval of their elder brother. Lothar even had the right to de-throne them after three warnings. That same year, 817, Stephen IV obtains his political independence, thus severing the tie between Rome and the Frank Empire as conceived by Charlemagne. The arrangement was neat and all contingencies covered except for the one which took place. After his first wife's (Ermengarde) death, Louis, in 819, married the beautiful Bavarian Judith, daughter of Comte Welf of Bavaria.!!!1 
Marriage* February 819 Louis I The Pious King of France, Holy Roman Emperor, 40 years old, married Judith of Bavaria & Swabia, daughter of Duke Welf I (Guelph) III of Bavaria & Swabia and Hedwig, February 819.9,6  
!AInfoNew 829 In September, 824, forgetting his nickname "Le Debonnaire", Louis totally ravages the Bretagne which was rebelling. In 829, at the General Assembly convoked in Worms (Wurm), Louis announces that he is forging a Duchy for his son, Charles, and gives him Alamania, Alsace, Rhetia, and part of Burgundy. The Co-Emperor Lothar, disagrees and has his name removed from imperial decrees and diplomas. Toward the end of 829, the political scene gets very complicated with allegations that Judith had intimate rapports with Bernard, Count of Barcelone, and ultimately desiring the death of the three sons of Hirmingarde. In Mai of 830, in Compiegne, Lothar and Pepin of Aquitaine lead a revolt. Louis is forced to cede on every point of contention. The apanage of the young Charles is eliminated, Judith is locked up in Poitiers at the Monastery of Sainte-Radegonde. In 831, the bishops would note how she had a talent for converting men's hearts and souls, and would allow her to rejoin her husband. In 832, Pepin and Louis revolt against their father. On 24 June 833, the Army of Louis Le Pieux faces those of the rebels. The field of battle in Rothfeld would be named the Field of the Lie (Lugenfeld). The Emperor and his sons begin negotiations. The night of 29 to 30 June, it is clear that the supporters of Louis would be influenced by his three sons. On the morning of 30 June, Louis would have to surrender. It would not be until 1 October that Louis would be deposed by the Assembly led by Agobard, Archbishop of Lyon and Eblon, Archbishop of Reims. On 7 October, Judith is sent to the Monastery of Tortone, Bernard to Prum, and Louis to the Monastery of Saint-Medard-de-Soissons, where in public ceremony, he is forced to lay down his sword, stripped of royal vestments, he is made to don the coarse cloth of a penitent. In 834, Louis and Pepin, tired of being under the control of their brother Lothar, decide to free their father. On 28 February, they succeed in freeing their father and in August in Blois, Lothar swears to Louis Le Pieux, that he would never leave Italy except by his direct command. Throughout 834, the Normands -- Danes, Swedes and Norwegians -- resume their raids. On 28 February 835, the General Assembly proclaims that Louis was innocent of all previous accusations thus clearing the way for him to be re-established as Emperor on the Throne at Saint-Stephen of Metz.1
 
!AInfoNew* When Louis the Pious's wife died, he remarried (Judith) and had a son, Charles, in 823. In all of his wills he had made his three sons Pepin of Aquitaine, Louis of Bavaria, and Lothar his co-Emperor, successors. When Charles was born, he tried desperately to include him. In 829, he dropped Lothar's imperial title and sent him off to Italy. The next year the three brother united and attacked, forcing their father to abdicate, Lothar to be given back his imperial title, and Judith to be sent off to a nunnery. By the next year, Louis had re-gained his power, brought back his wife, dropped Lothar completely from the will, replaced him with Charles, and refused to allow Lothar to ever return to court without permission.
That year Pepin revolted on his own. Louis of Bavaria followed the next year and they both attacked. Emperor Louis declaired that Pepin was formally deposed of his titles, but he could not enforce this order. In 833, the three brothers gained support from Pope Gregory IV and many of the Emperor Louis's own generals. Lothar made a settlement: Louis and Charles were imprisoned, Judith sent in exile to Italy under eye of Lothar, and Louis of Bavaria and Pepin were to gain territory (formerly under imperial authority). The next year, however, Pepin and Louis of Bavaria released their father and brother from jail, Judith was brought back, and peace was made. Louis died in 840. 
!AInfoNew December 839 Louis traveled from Aquitaine?? to Poitiers and spent Christmas of 839 in Poitiers. Sometime during this time period he made Ramnulf the new Count of Poitou. Ramnulf was a grandson of Louis the Pious.10 
Death 30 April 840
Louis I The Pious died some time after on 30 April 840; and.11 
Death* 20 June 840 Before on 20 June 840 at Ingelheim, at Aschen at Germany at age 61. Ingelhem am Rhein is now in the German state of Rhineland Palatinate. Back at this time it was in the Frankish Kingdom of Austrasia.12,9,8 
Burial* Louis was buried in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany. Aachen is Aix-la-Chapelle in French. Today it’s a University city where there is a place where you step one direction you are in Belgium, another direction Netherlands, another step you’re back in Germany.8 
!AInfoNew* He may also have been considered "The Holy Roman Emperor" by some.3 

Family 1   Theudelinde de Sens b. circa 775, d. circa 794
Child  1. Alpais+ b. c 790, d. 29 May 852

Family 2   Irmengarde of Hesbain b. 780, d. 3 October 818
Children  1. Lothar I Holy Roman Emperor+ b. c 795, d. 29 Sep 855
  2. Pepin I of Aquitaine b. 797, d. 838
  3. Rotrud b. 800
  4. Adelaide 11
  5. Hildegarde+ b. 802, d. c 841
  6. Louis II , The German+ b. 805, d. 28 Aug 876

Family 3   Judith of Bavaria & Swabia b. circa 800, d. 19 April 843
Children  1. Gisela of France+ b. 820, d. 1 Jul 87413
  2. Charles II The Bald, King of France+ b. 13 Jun 823, d. 6 Oct 877
  3. Alpaide Princess of France+ b. c 8251

Citations
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  9. Download, http://www.kcnet.com/~denis/royal/martel/martel-c.htm.
  10. Download, http://www.francebalade.com/poitou/ctpoitou.htm.
  11. Download, http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal.
  12. [S9180] "Email, no hard copy" , "McCreight, William" <e-mail address>.
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