![]() ![]() In 794, Charlemagne gave four former Gallo-Roman villas to Louis, in the thought that he would take in each in turn as winter residence: Doué, Ebreuil, Angeac and the Chasseneuil. Louis presented himself in Saxony at the royal Council of Paderborn dressed in Basque costumes along with other youths in the same garment, which may have made a good impression in Toulouse, since the Basques of Vasconia were a mainstay of the Aquitanian army. However, wary of the customs of his son may have been assimilating into in Aquitaine, Charlemagne, who had remarried to Fastrada after the death of Hildegard, sent for Louis in 785. Charlemagne wanted his son Louis to grow up in the area where he was to reign. 768) and later Hunald II, which culminated in the disastrous Battle of Roncesvalles (778). Charlemagne constituted this sub-kingdom in order to secure the border of his realm after the destructive war against the Aquitanians and Basques under Waifar (capitulated c. In the following year he was sent to Aquitaine accompanied by regents and a court. Louis was crowned King of Aquitaine as a three-year-old child in 781. Louis and Lothair were given names from the old Merovingian dynasty, possibly to suggest a connection. He had a twin brother named Lothair, who died young. He was the third son of Charlemagne by his wife Hildegard. Louis was born in 778 while his father Charlemagne was on campaign in Spain, at the Carolingian villa of Cassinogilum, according to Einhard and the anonymous chronicler called Astronomus the place is usually identified with Chasseneuil, near Poitiers. Louis is generally compared unfavourably to his father but faced distinctly different problems. Though his reign ended on a high note, with order largely restored to his empire, it was followed by three years of civil war. In the 830s his empire was torn by civil war between his sons that was only exacerbated by Louis's attempts to include his son Charles by his second wife in the succession plans. The first decade of his reign was characterised by several tragedies and embarrassments, notably the brutal treatment of his nephew Bernard of Italy for which Louis atoned in a public act of self-debasement. As emperor, he included his adult sons, Lothair, Pepin and Louis, in the government and sought to establish a suitable division of the realm among them. He conquered Barcelona from the Emirate of Córdoba in 801 and asserted Frankish authority over Pamplona and the Basques south of the Pyrenees in 812. As the only surviving son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position that he held until his death except from 833 to 834, when he was deposed.ĭuring his reign in Aquitaine, Louis was charged with the defence of the empire's southwestern frontier. Louis the Pious ( German: Ludwig der Fromme French: Louis le Pieux 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. ![]()
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