Charles II The Bald 
Charles II The was born in Frankfort-Am-Main, Hesse, Germany. Charles II The's father was Louis I "The Fair and his mother was Judith Of Bavaria. His paternal grandparents were Emperor Of The West Charlemagne and Countess Of Vinzgau Hildegarde; his maternal grandparents were Count In The Eritgau Welf and A Saxon Eigilwich. He had a sister named Princess Of France. He had two half-brothers and two half-sisters, named I, Louis II "The, Hildegard Of and Princess Of France. He died in Brides-Les-Baines, Near Mt. Cenis In The Alps. He was buried in St. Denis, Paris, Seine, Neustria France.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> " King Of The West Franks
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Frankish Emperor
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Western Frankish King 843-877
Frankish Emperor 875-877
Louis the Pious became Frankish Emperor in 814 with no rivals to the throne. He had three sons, Lothar, Pepin, and Louis. In 817, Lothar was made co-Emperor with his father and King of Italy to replace Bernard, Pepin made King of Aquitaine, and Louis made King of Bavaria. In 823, Louis had another son, Charles, this one by a new wife (the mother of the 3 brothers had died). Louis tried desperately to work Charles in as a successor, but the three brothers fought him everytime he tried to reform his will. After much conflict, Emperor Louis dropped Lothar's imperial title in 829 and sent him off to Italy. The next year the brothers attacked, reinstated Lothar with his imperial title, and had Judith, the mother of Charles, sent off to a nunnery. By 831, Louis had regained his power, brought back his wife, and again dropped Lothar's titles, this time all of them, and refused him to return to court ever again without permission. That year Pepin revolted. In 832, Louis of Bavaria joined Pepin, and the Emperor Louis declaired Pepin deposed of all royal titles but he had no power to enforce this declairation, so Pepin continued to rule. In 833, the three again attacked with support from Louis's own generals and from Pope Gregory IV himself. They imprisoned their father and brother, and exiled Judith to Italy under watch of Lothar, and Louis and Pepin gained territory. The next year, however, Louis and Pepin released their father and brother, brought back his wife, and peace was made. In 835, Louis was re-crowned Emperor with great pomp. Pepin died in 838, and while Louis tried to have Charles crowned king in Aquitaine, the nobles crowned Pepin's son Pepin II. Neither had the authority to rule in the country. In 840, Louis the Pious died, and the three surviving brothers began a civil war for the division of the Empire.
In 841, Charles and Louis of Bavaria ganged up on their brother Lothar, who had the support of Pepin II, who were defeated at Fontenay, France. In 842, Charles and Louis made a formal alliegance, and together put down a Saxon revolt that year and a revolt in Aquitaine under Pepin II. In 843, the Treaty of Verdun was made between the three brothers, by which Charles would rule the Western Frankish Kingdom (France), with Pepin's Aquitaine a subkindom under the ultimate authority of Charles, Lothar would rule the Middle Frankish Kingdom (Italy, Provence, and Lorraine) with the imperial title, and Louis would rule the Eastern Frankish Kingdom (Germany).
During his reign in France, Charles suffered the awesome attacks of the Danes, starting in 853. In 846, he ceded Brittany to its Breton inhabitants, and due to force he had to give to them the Breton March in 851 and Maine in 857. In 853 and 855, he was forced to allow Danish immigration into his kingdom. Another Danish army invaded in 856-9, destroying many French cities. In 858, Charles met with King Lothar II, who controlled the area near Denmark, to discuss a formal defense. Two years later, Louis the German invaded France on the invite of Pepin II and the Burgundian nobles, and Charles had so little authority that he couldn't even raise an army. The clergy finally pushed him out. In 868, Lothar died, and Louis the German and Charles the Bald divided up Lotharingia between them, just as they had done on the death of Charles of Provence in 863. 865-6 saw more Danish invasions into France. In 866, Charles finally bribed them to leave, and the East Frankish noble Hugh was made Duke to fight off the Norse. In 875, Emperor Louis II, died and on Christmas Day Pope John VIII crowned Charles Emperor in Rome. Two years later, Charles died and the French throne went to his son Louis II.
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Western Frankish King 843-877
Frankish Emperor 875-877
Louis the Pious became Frankish Emperor i
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0635 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.16 Dec 714 in Jupile On The Muse
- b.~ 0688 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.22 Oct 741 in Quierzy-Sur-Oise, Aisne, France
- b.~ 0654
- b.0714 d.0768
- b.~ 0660 d.< 0722
- b.~ 0690 in Austrasia d.0724
- b.2 Apr 742 in Aachen, Germany d.28 Jan 813-814 in Aachen, Germany
- b.~ 0660
- b.~ 0690 d.0747
- b.~ 0660 d.> 0721
- 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.~ 0667 d.0727
- 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.~ 0690
- b.~ 0715 d.< 0776
- b.~ 0690
- b.~ 0745 d.< 0800
- b.~ 0685
- b.~ 0715
- b.~ 0780 d.0819
- b.~ 0800 in Bavaria d.19 Apr 846 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France
- b.~ 0780
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Charles II The and Ermentrude Of were married in a religious ceremony. They had a son and two daughters, named Louis II "The, Princess Of The West Franks and Princess Of The West Franks.
Family Notes
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Children
Princess Of The West Franks Judith
Princess Of The West Franks was born about 0844. She died after 0870.
Louis II "The Stammerer
He died in Compiègne, Oise, France. He was buried in Saint-Corneille, Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France.
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