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Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious

Timeline

801   Louis the Pious occupies Barcelona.

813   Louis the Pious crowned co-emperor of the Franks with his father Charlemagne.

814   Louis the Pious succeeds Charlemagne as king of the Franks and Emperor.

816   Frankish king Louis the Pious crowned emperor.

817   Louis the Pious divides his empire among his sons. Louis the German becomes king of East Francia, Lothar I becomes co-emperor.

818   Bishop Theodulf of rl

819   Louis the Pious marries Judith Welf

825   Emperor Louis the Pious of the Franks wars against the Wends and Sorbs. ''

829   Ansgar is appointed missionary to Sweden by Louis the Pious, at the request of the Swedish king j

831   Louis the Pious reinstated following the end of the first Civil war of his reign

832   Pepin of Aquitaine and Louis the German revolt against Louis the Pious, Emperor of the Franks.

839   Louis the Pious attempts to divide his empire among his sons.

840   After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German fight over the division of the empire, with Lothar succeeding as Emperor.

843   Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian empire between the 3 sons of Louis the Pious. Namely Charles the Bald, Lothar and Louis the German, thus first creating the Kingdom of France as a distinct state.