Lothair I
Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855 · Germany · Historical Figures · Lived 795 to 855 · aged 60
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Something wrong?The eldest son who turned inheritance into civil war. Lothair I spent decades fighting his brothers over the pieces of Charlemagne's empire, and when the dust settled in 843, the map of Europe had cracked along lines that would harden into France and Germany.
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Cover - Lothaire Psalter (9th C), binding - BL Add MS 37768
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A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany (1821) (14801130473)
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Born in 795, Lothair was the firstborn of Emperor Louis I and positioned as heir to the Carolingian throne. He became co-emperor with his father in 817 and King of Italy a year earlier, but the arrival of a half-brother - Charles the Bald - threatened the tidy succession. Lothair rallied his full brothers Pepin I and Louis the German in repeated revolts against their father to block Charles from the inheritance. When Louis I died in 840, the brotherly alliance shattered: Charles and Louis turned on Lothair, igniting a three-year war that tore apart the empire Charlemagne had built. The conflict ended in 843 with Lothair holding Middle Francia, a narrow strip between his brothers' kingdoms, and the Frankish world permanently fractured. He died in 855, twelve years after the treaty that redrew the continent.
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