Young Folks' History of Germany Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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., T... more »HE THICK 880-887. ARNULF 887-899. LUDWIG IV., THE CHILD, .. . 899-812. LUDWIG THE PIOUS is the same emperor as 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 Famous Warrior. Aquitaine, and Ludwig Bavaria; but none of them were to make peace or war without consent of the Emperor. Bernhard, 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 LUDWIG THE PIOUS. to death. Lothar had his kingdom, and was 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 kingdom forthis boy, and called a diet at Wurms, where a new kingdom called Germany was carved out for him ; but this greatly offended his brothers, Avho rose against their father, and overcame him. They wanted to drive him into becoming a monk, but this he would not do, and his German subjects rose in his favour, and set him on his throne again. He forgave his sons, and sent them back to their kingdoms; but in a few years they were all up in arms ag...« less