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Aunt Charlotte's Stories of German History for the Little Ones
Aunt Charlotte's Stories of German History for the Little Ones Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Marcus Ward Subjects: Germany Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Europe / Germany Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English... more », Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. LUDWIG I., THE PIOUS, 814-840. LOTHAR I., 840-855. LUDWIG II., 855-875. KARL II., THE BALD, 875-876. KARLOMAN 876-880. KARL III., THE THICK, 880-887. ARNULF 887-899. LUDWIG IV., THE CHILD, 899-812. T UDWIG THE PIOUS is the same emperor as -f he whom the French call Louis the debonair, but it is better to use his real name, which is only a little softened from Chlodwig. He was a good, gentle man, but he had not such strength or skill as his father to rule that great empire, and he was much too easily led. He was crowned Emperor by Pope Stephen, and then gave kingdoms to his sons ; Lothar had the Rhineland, the old home of the Franks, and was joined in the empire with his father; Pippin had Aquitaine, and Famous Warrior. Ludwig Bavaria; but none of them were to make peace or war without consent of the Emperor. Bern- hard, King of Italy, their cousin, did not choose to reign on these terms, and marched against the Emperor, but was defeated, made prisoner, condemned by the Franks, and put to death. Lothar had his kingdom, and was I. UDWIG THE PIOUS. suspected of having prevented him from being pardoned ; but the Emperor always grieved over his death as a great sin. In 814, Ludwig I. lost his wife, and soon after married a Bavarian lady named Judith, who had a son named Karl. Ludwig wanted a kindgom f...« less