*Charles II "The Bald" Holy Roman Emperor
born
13 June 0823 Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Germany
died 6 October 0877 Brides Les
Bains, near Mt. Cenis in the Alps
buried St. Denis, France
father:
*Louis
I "The Pious" Holy Roman Emperor
born August 0778 Casseneuil,
France
died 20 June 0840 Near, Ingelheim, Rhinehessen, Hesse
buried Cathâedrale
d'Aachen, Aachen, Rheinland, Germany
mother:
*Judith Princess
of Bavaria
siblings:
*Gisela
Princess of France and the West
born about 0818 Frankfurt, Hesse, Nassau,
Germany died 1 July 0874
*Adelaide de Aquitane
born
between 822 & 824 Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France
died Tours, Indre-Et-Loire,
France
spouse (1st):
*Ermentrude (Irmtrud)
Countess of Orleans
born 27 September 0830 Orlâeans, Neustria
died 6
October 0869
buried St. Denis, France
married 13 December 0842 Crecy, France
children
(from 1st marriage):
*Ermentrud (Hersent) Princess of France
Duchess of Loraine
born about 0854 France
Carloman Prince of France
born about 0845/6 France died 0876 Epternac,France
Charles King of Aquitane
born 0847 France died 29 September 0865 Buzanðcais, France
*Louis
II "The Stammerer" King of France born 1 November 0843 France died
10 April 879 Compiáegne, Neustria
Hildegarde Princess of France born about
0856 France
*Rotrude (Rothilde?) Princess of France
born 0843 France died 0889/0912
Gisáele Princess of France born about 0858
France died 1 Jul 0874
*Judith Princess of France
born 0844 France died after 0870
Lothaire Prince of France born about
0847 France died 0865
spouse (2nd):
*Richeut (Richardis)
Countess of Metz
married 25 November 0870
children (from 2nd marriage):
*Rothilde
of Neustria born about 0871 died about 22 March 0928
biographical
and/or anecdotal:
Charles "The Bald" (b. June 13, 823 - d. Oct.
6, 877, Brides-les-Bain, France) king of France (i.e.francis Occidentalis, the West
Frankish kingdom) from 843 to 877 and Western emperor from 875 to 877. (He is reckoned
as Charles II both of the Holy Roman Empire and of France.)
Son of the emperor
Louis I the Pious and his second wife, Judith, Charles was the unwitting cause of
violent discord when, in 829, he was granted lands by his father, Louis's action
precipitated a series of civil wars, lasting until 838, in which the three sons of
his first marriage, Lothair I, Louis (the German), and Pepin, strove to maintain
or to increase the rights that they had been guaranteed by the succession settlement
of 817, the "Ordination imperii). Pepin died in 838, but after the death of
Louis I in 840 the civil war resumed and continued until Louis the German joined
with Charles to force Lothair to accept the Treaty of Verdun in 843, by which Charles
received all the lands west of a line roughly following the Scheldt, the Meuse, the
Saone, the eastern mountains of the Massif Central, and the lower reaches of the
Rhone, and Louis the German and Lothair received respectively the lands of the East
Franks (Germany) and the middle kingdom, lying between the other two.
Until
864 Charles's political situation was precarious because few vassals were loyal to
him. His lands suffered from raids by Northmen, who fled only after receiving bribes;
he was defeated by the Bretons and in 858, faced an invasion by Louis the German.
Yet he succeeded in gaining control of Aquitaine after the capture of Pepin's son
in 864; and, by the Treaty of Meersen (870) with Louis the German, he received western
Lorraine.
When Lothair's son, the emperor Louis II, died in 875, Charles went
to Italy and was crowned emperor in December 25 by pope John VIII. In 876, after
the death of Louis the German. Charles invaded Louis's possessions but was defeated
at Andernach by Louis's son Louis the Younger. Charles's death in the next year occurred
when another son of Louis the German, Carloman, was marching against him and when
his own major vassals were in revolt.
During Charles's reign some of the splendors
of the Carolingian renaissance were revived, and his close collaboration with the
church enhanced his prestige and authority. (Britannica)
notes or source:
LDS
& ancestry.com