Louis II "The Stammerer 
Louis II "The's father was Charles II The Bald and his mother was Ermentrude Of Orléans. His paternal grandparents were Louis I "The Fair and Judith Of Bavaria; his maternal grandparents were Count Of Orléans Eudes and Engeltrude Of Paris. He had two sisters named Princess Of The West Franks and Princess Of The West Franks. He had two half-sisters named Reheut Of The West and Rothilde Of. He died in Compiègne, Oise, France. He was buried in Saint-Corneille, Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> " King Of West Franks
Ruled BET. 878 - 879 Emperor of the West 3
Event: Ruled BET. 877 - 879 King of the West Franks 3
Event: Crowned 8 DEC 877 Crowned at Reims by Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims 5
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Louis II, byname LOUIS THE STAMMERER, French LOUIS LE BÈGUE (b. Nov. 1, 846--d. April 10, 879, Compiègne, Fr.), king of Francia Occidentalis (the West Frankish kingdom) from 877 until his death.
After the death of his elder brother Charles in 866, Louis, the son of King Charles II the Bald, was made king of Aquitaine under his father's tutelage in 867. Charles became emperor in 875 and two years later left Louis as regent while he defended Italy for Pope John VIII. Louis was elected king of the West Franks to succeed his father as king of the West Franks in December 877, but not as emperor. He was crowned king by Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, on Dec. 8, and in Sept. 878 he was consecrated afresh by Pope John VIII. At a council at Troyes in 878, the Pope attempted to force Louis to take up the role of defender of the papacy, but Louis refused. Louis and his cousin Louis the Younger, ruler of the East Frankish kingdom, agreed to maintain the division of Lotharingia that their respective fathers had negotiated in the Treaty of Mersen in 870. Louis had hoped to redistribute offices of state but was frustrated by the Frankish magnates, who had accepted him as king on the condition that he respect their possessions and rights. After an ineffectual reign of eighteen months Louis died at Compiègne on April 10 or 11, 879.
By his first wife, Ansgarde, a Burgundian princess, he had two sons, his successors, Louis III. and Carloman; by his second wife, Adelaide, he had a posthumous son, Charles the Simple, who also became king of France. [Encyclopædia Britannica, 1971 ed., Vol. 14, pg. 414, LOUIS II; Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97, LOUIS II]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0688 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.22 Oct 741 in Quierzy-Sur-Oise, Aisne, France
- b.0714 d.0768
- b.~ 0690 in Austrasia d.0724
- b.2 Apr 742 in Aachen, Germany d.28 Jan 813-814 in Aachen, Germany
- b.~ 0690 d.0747
- b.~ 0720 in Leon, Aisne, France d.12 Jul 783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, France
- b.~ 0690
- b.Aug 0778 in Casseneuil, Lot-Et-Garonne, France d.20 Jun 840 in Petersaue, Ingelheim, Rhinehesse, Hesse
- b.~ 0697
- b.~ 0727
- b.0758 in Aachen, Rhineland, Germany
- b.~ 0697 d.> 0724
- b.~ 0727
- b.13 Jun 823 in Frankfort-Am-Main, Hesse, Germany d.6 Oct 877 in Brides-Les-Baines, Near Mt. Cenis In The Alps
- b.~ 0715 d.< 0776
- b.~ 0745 d.< 0800
- b.~ 0715
- b.~ 0780 d.0819
- b.~ 0800 in Bavaria d.19 Apr 846 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France
- b.~ 0780
- b.1 Nov 846 d.10 Apr 879 in Compiègne, Oise, France
- b.~ 0697
- b.~ 0727
- b.~ 0769 d.Bef 15 Feb 822-823
- b.~ 0697 d.> 0724
- b.~ 0727
- b.0798 d.0834
- b.~ 0709 d.> 0722
- d.> 0783
- b.~ 0769 d.Aft 15 Feb 822-823
- d.6 Oct 869 in St. Denis, Paris, Seine, Neustria
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Louis II "The and Adelaide Of were married in a religious ceremony about 0868. They had a son and a daughter, named III and Ermentrude Of.
Family Notes
CHAN17 May 2004
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Children
III Charles
III was born in Peronne, Somme, Picardie, France. He died in 0929 in In Captivity. He was buried in Saint-Fursy, Peronne, Somme, Picardie, France.
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