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- Charles the Bald (13 June 823 - 6 October 877)
Holy Roman Emperor (875-877, as Charles II) and King of West Francia (840-877, as Charles II, with the borders of his land defined by the Treaty of Verdun, 843), was the youngest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith.
He was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt, when his elder brothers were already adults and had been assigned their own regna, or subkingdoms, by their father. The attempts made by Louis the Pious to assign Charles a subkingdom, first Alemannia and then the country between the Meuse and the Pyrenees were unsuccessful. The numerous reconciliations with the rebellious Lothair and Pepin, as well as their brother Louis the German, King of Bavaria, made Charles's share in Aquitaine and Italyonly temporary, but his father did not give up and made Charles the heir of the entire land which was once Gaul and would eventually be France.
The death of the emperor Louis in 840 led to the outbreak of war between his sons. Charles allied himself with his brother Louis the German to resist the pretensions of the new emperor Lothair I, and the two allies defeated Lothair at the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841. The war was brought to an end by the Treaty of Verdun in August843.
The settlement gave Charles the Bald the kingdom of the West Franks,which practically corresponded with what is now France, with the addition of the Spanish March as far as the Ebro. Louis received the eastern part of the Carolingian Empire, known as the East Francia and laterGermany. Lothair retained the imperial title and the kingdom of Italy. He also received the central regions from Flanders through the Rhineland and Burgundy as king of Middle Francia.
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823 - 877 (54 years)
d. 1 Jul 874
Judith of Francië, b. 844 d. 870 (Age 26 years)