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Louis the Stammerer (
November 1,
846 —
April 10,
879; ), was the eldest son of
Charles the Bald and
Ermentrude of Orléans. He succeeded his younger brother in
Aquitaine in
866 and his father in
France in
877, though he was never crowned
Emperor.
Twice married, he and his first wife, Ansgarde of
Burgundy, had two sons:
Louis (born in
863) and
Carloman (born in
866), both of whom became
kings of France, and two daughters: Hildegarde (born in
864) and Gisela (
865–
884), who married Robert, Count of Troyes. With his second wife,
Adelaide of Paris, he'd one daughter, Ermentrude (
875–
914) — who was the mother of Cunigunde, wife of the
Count Palatine Wigerich of Bidgau; they were the ancestors of the
House of Luxemburg —, and a posthumous son,
Charles the Simple, who would become, long after his elder brothers' deaths, king of France.
He was crowned on
8 December 877 by
Hincmar,
archbishop of Rheims, and was crowned a second time in
September 878 by
Pope John VIII at
Troyes while the
pope was attending a council there. The pope may even have offered the imperial crown, but it was declined. Louis the Stammerer was said to be physically weak and outlived his father by only two years. He had relatively little impact on politics. He was described "a simple and sweet man, a lover of peace, justice, and religion". In 878, he gave the counties of
Barcelona,
Gerona, and
Besalú to
Wilfred the Hairy. His final act was to march against the
Vikings who were then the scourge of
Europe. He fell ill and died on
10 April or
9 April 879 not long after beginning his final campaign. On his death, his realms were divided between his two sons, Carloman and Louis.
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