Born
806
Died
876
Nationality
Frankish
Events involving Louis the German (7)
833
ID: 2930
Field of Lies - Louis's sons rebel, army deserts him at Rothfeld, temporarily deposed, later restored
ID: 2930
840
ID: 2932
June 840
Death of Louis the Pious - dies on campaign against rebellious son Louis the German, civil war erupts immediately
ID: 2932
841
ID: 2933
June 25, 841
Battle of Fontenoy - Louis the German and Charles the Bald defeat Lothair, 40,000 dead, Frankish nobility decimated
ID: 2933
842
ID: 2934
Oaths of Strasbourg - Louis and Charles swear alliance in vernacular languages (Old French and Old High German), first such texts
ID: 2934
843
ID: 2935
August 843
Treaty of Verdun - Carolingian Empire permanently divided: Lothair gets Middle Francia and imperial title, Louis gets East (Germany), Charles gets West (France)
ID: 2935
870
ID: 2939
Treaty of Mersen - Louis the German and Charles the Bald divide Lotharingia after death of Lothair II
ID: 2939
876
ID: 2941
Death of Louis the German - East Francia divided among three sons, beginning German stem duchies
ID: 2941