• General Notes

  Burial: Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia 1
  Event: Title (Facts Pg) King Of France
  Event: Reigned Bet 814 and 840
  King of France. Emperor of the West from 814-840. He had many problems with rebellious sons. Also called Louis I "the Fair," Emperor of the West by RC.
  the third son of Charlemagne
  He was in Doué, Anjou, when he received news of his father's passing. Hurrying to Aachen, he crowned himself and was proclaimed by the nobles with shouts of Vivat Imperator Ludovicus.
  
  In 817, Louis and his court were crossing a wooden gallery from the cathedral to the palace in Aachen when the gallery collapsed and took the lives of many. Louis, having barely survived and feeling the imminent danger of death, issued an Ordinatio Imperii, a decree that laid out plans for an orderly succession. In 815, he had already given his two eldest sons a share in the government, when he had given Bavaria to Lothair as king and Aquitaine to Pepin, though without the royal title. Now, he proceeded to divide the empire between his three sons:
  
  Lothair, already a king, was proclaimed co-emperor and was given the largest part of the Empire, including all of Italy, as his heritage. After his father's death he was supposed to succeed as Emperor and as overlord over his brothers.
  Pepin was proclaimed king and retained Aquitaine and some neighboring counties
  Louis, the youngest son, was also proclaimed king and received Bavaria and the neighbouring marches, hitherto the realm of Lothair.
  With this settlement, Louis tried to combine his sense for the Empire's unity, supported by the clergy, with the traditional Frankish principle of partition. Instead of treating his sons equally in status and land, he elevated his first-born son Lothair above his younger brothers and gave him the largest part of the Empire as his share. Lothair would turn out conscious of his status as co-emperor and proved a staunch defender of his share.
  
  Louis fell ill soon after his final victorious campaigns and went to his summer hunting lodge on an island in the Rhine, by his palace at Ingelheim. On 20 June 840, he died, in the presence of many bishops and clerics and in the arms of his brother Drogo, but not of Charles and Judith, who were in Poitiers. Soon dispute plunged the surviving brothers into a civil war that was only settled in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, which split the Frankish realm into three parts, the kernels of later France and Germany. The dispute over the kingship of Aquitaine was not fully settled until 860.
  
  By his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye (married 794, 795, or 798), he had three sons and three daughters:
  
  Lothair (795 – 855), king of Middle Francia
  Pepin (797 – 838), king of Aquitaine
  Adelaide (b. c. 799), perhaps married Robert the Strong
  Rotrude (b. 800)
  Hildegard (or Matilda) (b. c. 802), married Gerard, count of Auvergne
  Louis the German (c. 805 – 875), king of East Francia
  By his second wife, Judith of Bavaria, he had a daughter and a son:
  
  Gisela, married Eberhard I of Friuli
  Charles the Bald, king of West Francia
  He is supposed to have two illegitimate children:
  
  Arnulf of Sens (790-817)
  Alpais (794-852)
  
  Roots: Louis I, "the Fair," Emperor 814-840.
  Louis the Pious (also known as Louis I, Louis the Fair, and Louis the Debonaire
  Emperor and King of the Franks from 814 to his death 840.
  
  

Details of  Louis I "The Pious" 's family with  Ermengarde Princess Of    Hesbaye