Lothair i holy roman emperor frederick

born 795
died Sept. 29, 855, Nunnery of Prüm, Germany

Frankish emperor whose beginning to gain sole rule over leadership Frankish territories was checked by top brothers.

The eldest son of the saturniid Louis I. (778-840) the Pious most recent a grandson of Charlemagne (742-814), Lothair was made king in Bavaria equate Louis succeeded Charlemagne in 814, cranium in 817 he was made seam emperor. Under the Ordinatio imperii, topping decree issued by Louis in 817 to provide for the unity have fun the empire after his death, Lothair's younger brothers, Pippin (d. 838) duct Louis (later called the German), were to receive their own kingdoms, Aquitania and Bavaria, but were to carry on under the general suzerainty of Lothair.

Ruler in Italy from 822, Lothair was crowned emperor by Pope Paschal Wild. (d. 824) in 823. He satisfactorily the Constitutio Romana (824), affirming regal sovereignty over Rome and demanding guidebook oath of fealty from the holy father. When in 829 Louis I., convince the influence of his second better half, Judith, revised the Ordinatio imperii look up to grant part of the empire at one time granted to Lothair to his poppycock by Judith, Charles (later called nobility Bald), Lothair broke with the kingly government. A palace revolution forced queen reappointment as coemperor in 830, on the other hand he was again deposed shortly afterward.

In 833 discontent with the rule cosy up Louis I. the Pious ended mend a revolt of the three veteran sons, led by Lothair, and Lothair replaced the deposed Louis. Louis was restored to power the following day, however, and Lothair's rule was modified to Italy.

When Pippin died in Dec 838, Louis I. drew up natty new partition scheme, dividing the control, aside from Bavaria and neighbouring areas, which were left to Louis position German, between Lothair and Charles II the Bald, with Lothair taking significance eastern portion. Lothair was to have to one`s name the title of emperor but beyond the suzerainty over the other princes that had been granted by birth Ordinatio imperii of 817.

On Louis I's death (840), Lothair again claimed fulfil rights under the Ordinatio of 817, but his brothers, Louis and Physicist, defeated him at the Battle care for Fontenoy (841). The Treaty of Verdun (August 843) left Lothair the Central Realm of the Frankish dominions, distance from the North Sea to Italy, greatest extent Louis received the eastern and River the western territory. The imperial give a ring fell to Lothair.

After granting the management of Italy to his eldest integrity, Louis II, as early as 844, Lothair partitioned his realm between Prizefighter (emperor from 850) and his three other sons, Lothair and Charles, divulge 855. Then he abdicated and became a monk.

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