General Notes

His early years spent at the court of his grandfather Charlemagne, whose special affection he won; undertook the government of Bavaria, his inheritance, in 0817; fought slavonic tribes on his eastern frontier; involved in the fighting with his father and his brothers Lothair I and Charles the Bald over the division of the Empire; influenced by his step-mother Judith who was a sister of his wife, Emma; by the Treaty of Verdun which the three brothers made August 0843, Louis received the lands lying east of the Rhine, together with a district aroun Spires, Worms and Mainz; his territories included Bavaria where he made Regensburg the center of his government of Thuringia, Franconia and Saxony; may be called the founder of the German kingdom; at his instance synods and assemblies were held where laws were decreed for better government of church and state; lived in close alliance
with the church to which he was generous; his later years, after the death of his brother Lothair I were spent opposing the forces of his half-brother, Charles the Bald in Aquitaine anf Italy; he persuaded his daughter Engelberge at Trent in 0872 to name his son Carloman as her husband (Louis II)'s successor in Italy, but Charles the Bald reached Italy before his rival and secured the imperial crown; Louis was preparing for war with Charles but died.