General Notes

Also Known As:<_AKA> Charles "The Simple" King of /France/
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 9GCX-WW
[other.FTW]

Alias:<ALIA> the /Simple/
REFN: 2094
Royalty for Commoners by Robert W. Stuar t, Genealogical Publishing Co.,
Revised 2nd Edition, 1995:
Gen 171-37 - Char les III "the Simple", King of West Franks, 893, ;b. 17
Sept 879; d. 7 Oct 929 , Peronne, Somme, France; bur St. Fursy; m. (3)
918, Edgiva (Eadgifu, Aedgifu , Princess of England: m. (1) Apr 907,
Fredruna of Hamaland, d. 10 Feb 917, d au of Dietrich, Count of Hamaland.
ACADEMIC AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
CHARLES II I, FRANKISH EMPEROR (CHARLES THE FAT)
Charles III, or Charles the Fat, b. 839 , d. Jan. 13, 888, Frankish
Emperor, reunited for the last time the empire of CHARLEMAGNE (except
Burgundy). He was the youngest son of Louis The German, from whom he
inherited (876) the kingdom of Swabia. Three years later, on the
resignation of his sick
brother Carloman, he became king of Italy, and he was crowned emperor by
Pope John VIII in 881. His succession to Saxony on the death (882) of his
other brother Louis The Younger, made Charles King of all the East Franks
(Germany). The deaths of the West Frankish kings Louis III ( 882) and
Carolman (884) gave him France. Charles was deposed in 887 by Arnulf .
Encyclopedia Britannica Online at britannica.com:
Charles III
born Sept. 17, 879
died Oct. 7, 929, Péronne, Fr.
by name Charles The Simple, French C harles Le Simple king of France
(893-922), whose authority came to be accepte d by Lorraine and who
settled the Northmen in Normandy but who became the fir st Carolingian
ruler of the western kingdom to lose his crown.
The posthumou s son of Louis II the Stammerer, Charles was too young to
assume the throne o n the death of his half-brother, Carloman, in 884 or
that of his cousin, Char les the Fat, in 888. On Jan. 28, 893, however, he
was crowned king by Fulk, a rchbishop of Reims; and, although he renounced
his rights after civil war in 897, the death of King Eudes in the
following year brought him general recogn ition as king.
Charles was strongly under the influence of Robert, brother of the dead
Eudes. It was Robert's victory against the Northmen at Chartres in 9 11
which paved the way for the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte later that
ye ar, by which Charles ceded territory, in the area later known as
Normandy, to the Viking leader Rollo and his men; in return, Rollo became
a Christian and Charles's vassal. The Normans who had such an impact on
Europe in the 11th a nd 12th centuries were the final product of this
settlement.
In 911 also, th e magnates of Lorraine (Lotharingia) accepted the
authority of Charles on the death of the last Carolingian king of the
East Franks, Louis the Child. Char les's preoccupation with Lotharingian
affairs and councillors alienated the n obles of Neustria, however, and in
922 they elected Robert king. Charles kill ed Robert in battle in 923 but
was soon taken prisoner by Herbert, count of V ermandois, who used him for
his own gain against Rudolf, Robert's son-in-law and the new king.