General Notes

GIVN Lothaire I
SURN Carolingians
NSFX [Emperor]
AFN 9HMN-S6
REIGNED: King of Italy; Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (840-55)
Lothair I, 795-855, emperor of the West (840-55), was the son andsuccessor of
LOUIS I, with whom he was coemperor after 817. A grandson of CHARLEMAGNE,he
was in almost constant territorial wars with his father and his three
brothers, Pepin, CHARLES II (Charles the Bald), and LOUIS THE GERMAN.
Eventually, the Treaty of Verdun (843) subdivided Charlemagne's empireamong
the brothers.
SOURCE: Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright 1994, Columbia
University Press.