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Charles the Bald, the Glossary

Charles the Bald (Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), King of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877).^[1]

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823 births
877 deaths
9th-century kings of Italy
9th-century kings of West Francia
Dukes of Maine
Dukes of Swabia

Aachen

Aachen (French: Aix-la-Chapelle; Oche; Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.

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Adémar de Chabannes

Adémar de Chabannes (988/989 – 1034; also Adhémar de Chabannes) was a French/Frankish monk, active as a composer, scribe, historian, poet, grammarian and literary forger.

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Alamannia

Alamannia, or Alemania, was the kingdom established and inhabited by the Alemanni, a Germanic tribal confederation that had broken through the Roman limes in 213.

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Alps

The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Annales Vedastini

The Annales Vedastini or Annals of St-Vaast are a series of annals written in the early tenth century at the Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras.

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Aquitaine

Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region.

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Attigny, Ardennes

Attigny is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

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Æthelbald, King of Wessex

Æthelbald (died 860) was King of Wessex from 855 or 858 to 860.

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Æthelwulf, King of Wessex

Æthelwulf (Old English for "Noble Wolf"; died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858.

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Baldwin I, Margrave of Flanders

Baldwin I (probably 830s – 879), also known as Baldwin Iron Arm (Boudewijn met de IJzeren Arm; the epithet is first recorded in the 12th century), was the first margrave of Flanders, which evolved into the County of Flanders. Charles the Bald and Baldwin I, Margrave of Flanders are Frankish warriors.

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Basilica of Saint-Denis

The Basilica of Saint-Denis (Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris.

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Battle of Andernach (876)

The First Battle of Andernach between the West Frankish king Charles the Bald and the East Frankish king Louis the Younger took place on 8 October 876 near Kettig southeast of Andernach and resulted in Charles' complete defeat.

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Battle of Ballon

The Battle of Ballon took place on 27 March 845 between the forces of Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, and Nominoë, Duke of Brittany.

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Battle of Fontenoy (841)

The three-year Carolingian Civil War culminated in the decisive Battle of Fontenoy, also called the Battle of Fontenoy-en-Puisaye, fought at Fontenoy, near Auxerre, on 25 June 841.

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Battle of Jengland

The Battle of Jengland (also called Jengland-Beslé, Beslé, or Grand Fougeray) took place on 22 August 851, between the Frankish army of Charles the Bald and the Breton army of Erispoe, Duke of Brittany.

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Boso of Provence

Boso (Boson; c. 841 – 11 January 887) was a Frankish nobleman of the Bosonid family who was related to the Carolingian dynasty and who rose to become King of Lower Burgundy and Provence. Charles the Bald and Boso of Provence are Frankish warriors.

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Brides-les-Bains

Brides-les-Bains is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Bulla (seal)

A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it (or, in the historical form, contained in it).

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne; Burgundian: bourguignon) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France.

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Capitularies of Charles the Bald

The Capitularies of Charles the Bald represent a series of acts implemented by King Charles to decide and promulgate laws governing public affairs.

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Carloman of Bavaria

Carloman (Karlmann, Carlomannus; c. 830 – 22 March 880) was a Frankish king of the Carolingian dynasty. Charles the Bald and Carloman of Bavaria are 9th-century kings of Italy, Carolingian dynasty and Frankish warriors.

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Carloman, son of Charles the Bald

Carloman (848–) was the youngest son of Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, and his first wife, Ermentrude. Charles the Bald and Carloman, son of Charles the Bald are 877 deaths and sons of emperors.

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Carolingian dynasty

The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, descendants of the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.

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Carolingian Empire

The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.

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Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. Charles the Bald and Charlemagne are 9th-century kings of Italy, Carolingian dynasty and Frankish warriors.

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Charles of Provence

Charles of Provence or Charles II (845 – 25 January 863) was the Carolingian King of Provence from 855 until his early death in 863. Charles the Bald and Charles of Provence are sons of emperors.

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Charles the Child

Charles the Child (Latin: Karolus puer, from the Annales Bertiniani; 847/848, Frankfurt am Main – 29 September 866, Buzançais) was the King of Aquitaine from October 855 until his death in 866. Charles the Bald and Charles the Child are sons of emperors.

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Charles the Fat

Charles III (839 – 13 January 888), also known as Charles the Fat, was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat are 9th-century kings of Italy, 9th-century kings of West Francia, Carolingian dynasty, dukes of Swabia and Frankish warriors.

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Chivalry

Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220.

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Compiègne

Compiègne (Compiène) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

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Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor received the imperial regalia from the hands of the Pope, symbolizing both the pope's right to crown Christian sovereigns and also the emperor's role as protector of the Catholic Church.

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Counts and dukes of Maine

The capital of Maine was Le Mans. Charles the Bald and Counts and dukes of Maine are dukes of Maine.

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Crown of Charlemagne

The Crown of Charlemagne was a name given to the ancient coronation crown of Kings of the Franks, and later Kings of France after 1237.

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Dagobert I

Dagobert I (Dagobertus; 603/605 – 19 January 639) was King of the Franks. Charles the Bald and Dagobert I are Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.

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Diet (assembly)

In politics, a diet is a formal deliberative assembly.

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Duchy of Aquitaine

The Duchy of Aquitaine (Ducat d'Aquitània,; Duché d'Aquitaine) was a historical fiefdom located in the western, central and southern areas of present-day France, south of the river Loire.

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Duchy of Lorraine

The Duchy of Lorraine (Lorraine; Lothringen), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France.

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East Francia

East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of Charlemagne's empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.

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Ebro

The Ebro (Spanish and Basque; Ebre) is a river of the north and northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain.

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Edict of Pîtres

The Edict of Pîtres (Medieval Latin: Edictum Pistense) was a capitulary promulgated at Pîtres on 25 June 864.

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Elder House of Welf

The Elder House of Welf (known as Rudolphins in Burgundy) was a Frankish noble dynasty of European rulers documented since the 9th century.

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Engelram, Chamberlain of France

Engelram (also, Enguerand, Enguerrand, Engilram, Ingelram) (ca. 810 - 877) was Chamberlain to Charles the Bald through sometime after 871. Charles the Bald and Engelram, Chamberlain of France are 877 deaths.

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Equestrian statuette of Charlemagne

A Carolingian-era equestrian statuette in bronze depicting either Charlemagne or his grandson Charles the Bald, a rare example of surviving Carolingian sculpture in metal, is exhibited in the Louvre Museum.

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Erispoe

Erispoe (Erispoë; Herispoius, Herispogius, Respogius; died 2 or 12 November 857) was Duke of Brittany from 851 to his death.

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Ermentrude of Orléans

Ermentrude of Orléans (27 September 823 – 6 October 869) was the Queen of the Franks by her marriage to Charles II. Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans are 823 births, Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis and Carolingian dynasty.

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First Bible of Charles the Bald

The First Bible of Charles the Bald (BNF Lat. 1), also known as the Vivian Bible, is a Carolingian-era Bible commissioned by Count Vivian of Tours in 845, the lay abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours, and presented to Charles the Bald in 846 on a visit to the church, as shown in the presentation miniature at the end of the book.

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Flanders

Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.

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Francia

The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Gaul

Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.

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Hincmar

Hincmar (Hincmarus; 806 – 21 December 882), archbishop of Reims, was a Frankish jurist and theologian, as well as the friend, advisor and propagandist of Charles the Bald.

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Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum, Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period (Imperator Germanorum, Roman-German emperor), was the ruler and head of state of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Judith of Bavaria (died 843)

Judith of Bavaria (797 – 19 April 843) was the Carolingian empress as the second wife of Louis the Pious. Charles the Bald and Judith of Bavaria (died 843) are Carolingian dynasty.

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Judith of Flanders

Judith of Flanders (circa 843 – 870 or later) was a Carolingian princess who became Queen of Wessex by two successive marriages and later Countess of Flanders. Charles the Bald and Judith of Flanders are Carolingian dynasty.

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King of Italy

King of Italy (Re d'Italia; Rex Italiae) was the title given to the ruler of the Kingdom of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

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Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)

The Kingdom of Italy (Regnum Italiae or Regnum Italicum; Regno d'Italia; Königreich Italien), also called Imperial Italy (Italia Imperiale, Reichsitalien), was one of the constituent kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire, along with the kingdoms of Germany, Bohemia, and Burgundy.

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Koblenz

Koblenz is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary.

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List of French monarchs

France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.

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List of monarchs of Bavaria

The following is a list of monarchs during the history of Bavaria.

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Loire

The Loire (Léger; Lêre; Liger; Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world.

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Lombardy

Lombardy (Lombardia; Lombardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population.

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Lothair I

Lothair I (Dutch and Medieval Latin: Lotharius; German: Lothar; French: Lothaire; Italian: Lotario; 795 – 29 September 855) was a 9th-century Carolingian emperor (817–855, with his father until 840) and king of Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (843–855). Charles the Bald and Lothair I are 9th-century kings of Italy, dukes of Maine, Frankish warriors and sons of emperors.

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Lothair II

Lothair II (835 – 8 August 869) was the king of Lotharingia from 855 until his death in 869. Charles the Bald and Lothair II are Frankish warriors and sons of emperors.

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Lothair the Lame

Lothair the Lame (Lothaire le Boiteux, c. 848 – 865) was a French prince, the third son and fourth child of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. Charles the Bald and Lothair the Lame are Carolingian dynasty, people from Frankfurt and sons of emperors.

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Lotharingia

Lotharingia was a medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire.

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Louis II of Italy

Louis II (825 – 12 August 875), sometimes called the Younger, was the king of Italy and emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ruled alone. Charles the Bald and Louis II of Italy are 9th-century kings of Italy, Frankish warriors and sons of emperors.

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Louis the German

Louis the German (c. 806/810 – 28 August 876), also known as Louis II of Germany, was the first king of East Francia, and ruled from 843 to 876 AD. Charles the Bald and Louis the German are dukes of Maine, Frankish warriors and sons of emperors.

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Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious (Ludwig der Fromme; Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. Charles the Bald and Louis the Pious are 9th-century kings of Italy, Carolingian dynasty, Frankish warriors and sons of emperors.

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Louis the Stammerer

Louis II, known as Louis the Stammerer (Louis le Bègue; 1 November 846 – 10 April 879), was the king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. Charles the Bald and Louis the Stammerer are 9th-century kings of West Francia, Carolingian dynasty, dukes of Maine, Frankish warriors and sons of emperors.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.

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Meerssen (Meersje) is a town and a municipality in southeastern Netherlands.

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Metz

Metz (Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then Mettis) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.

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Meuse

The Meuse (Moûze) or Maas (Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.

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Middle Francia

Middle Francia (Francia media) was a short-lived Frankish kingdom which was created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun after an intermittent civil war between the grandsons of Charlemagne resulted in division of the united empire.

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Mont Cenis

Mont Cenis (Moncenisio) is a massif in Savoie (France) (with an elevation of at Pointe de Ronce and a pass at an elevation of), which forms the limit between the Cottian and Graian Alps.

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Muhammad I of Córdoba

Muhammad I of Cordoba (823–886) was a Muslim ruler of al-Andalus. Charles the Bald and Muhammad I of Córdoba are 823 births.

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Nantua

Nantua (Arpitan: Nantuat) is a commune in and subprefecture of the Ain département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France.

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Nominoe

Nominoe or Nomenoe (Nominoë; Nevenoe; c. 800, 7 March 851) was the first Duke of Brittany from 846 to his death.

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Oaths of Strasbourg

The Oaths of Strasbourg were a military pact made on 14 February 842 by Charles the Bald and Louis the German against their older brother Lothair I, the designated heir of Louis the Pious, the successor of Charlemagne.

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Odo I, Count of Orléans

Odo I (Eudes; also Hodo, Uodo, or Udo in contemporary Latin; died 25 May 834) was the Count of Orléans (comes Aurelianensium) following the final deposition of Matfrid until his own deposition a few years later.

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Pavia

Pavia (Ticinum; Papia) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino near its confluence with the Po.

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Pepin I of Aquitaine

Pepin I or Pepin I of Aquitaine (French: Pépin; 797 – 13 December 838) was King of Aquitaine and Duke of Maine. Charles the Bald and Pepin I of Aquitaine are dukes of Maine, Frankish warriors and sons of emperors.

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Pepin II of Aquitaine

Pepin II, called the Younger (823 – after 864 in Senlis), was King of Aquitaine from 838 as the successor upon the death of his father, Pepin I. Pepin II was eldest son of Pepin I and Ingeltrude, daughter of Theodobert, count of Madrie. Charles the Bald and Pepin II of Aquitaine are 823 births and Frankish warriors.

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Pope Adrian II

Pope Adrian II (Adrianus II; also Hadrian II; 79214 December 872) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 867 to his death.

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Pope John VIII

Pope John VIII (Ioannes VIII; died 16 December 882) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 14 December 872 to his death.

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Porphyry (geology)

Porphyry is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate-rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass.

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Pyrenees

The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain.

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Realm

A realm is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules.

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Renovatio imperii Romanorum

Renovatio imperii Romanorum ("renewal of the empire of the Romans") was a formula declaring an intention to restore or revive the Roman Empire.

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Renovatio regni Francorum

The motto Renovatio regni Francorum ("renewal of the kingdom of the Franks") was used by several monarchs of the Carolingian, Widonid and Ottonian dynasties in the 9th through 11th centuries.

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Rhône

The Rhône is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Rhineland

The Rhineland (Rheinland; Rhénanie; Rijnland; Rhingland; Latinised name: Rhenania) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.

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Richerus

Richerus or Richer of Reims (fl. 10th century) was a monk of Saint-Remi, just outside Reims, and a historian, an important source for the contemporary kingdom of France.

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Richilde of Provence

Richilde of Provence (c. 845 – 2 June 910, Kingdom of Lower Burgundy) (also Richildis) was the second wife of the Frankish emperor Charles the Bald. Charles the Bald and Richilde of Provence are Carolingian dynasty.

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Robert the Strong

Robert the Strong (Robert le Fort; c. 830 – 866) was the father of two kings of West Francia: Odo (or Eudes) and Robert I of France. Charles the Bald and Robert the Strong are dukes of Maine.

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Roger, Count of Maine

* This article is based in large part on a translation of the article:fr:Roger du Maine from the French Wikipedia on 18 June 2017. Roger of Maine, who died circa 900, was Count of Maine from 886 to 893, and again from 895 to 900.

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Rothilde

Rothilde (Latin: Rothildis; 871 – 928/929) was a lady born into the royal family of Western Francia.

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Saône

The Saône (Sona; Arar) is a river in eastern France.

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Saracen

German woodcut depicting Saracens Saracen was a term used both in Greek and Latin writings between the 5th and 15th centuries to refer to the people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta.

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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Siege of Paris (845)

The Siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia.

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Siege of Paris (885–886)

The Siege of Paris of 885–886 was part of a Viking raid on the Seine, in the Kingdom of the West Franks.

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Spanish March

The Spanish March or Hispanic March was a military buffer zone established c.795 by Charlemagne in the eastern Pyrenees and nearby areas, to protect the new territories of the Christian Carolingian Empire - the Duchy of Gascony, the Duchy of Aquitaine, and Septimania - from the Muslim Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba in al-Andalus.

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Treaty of Coulaines

The Treaty of Coulaines, named after the western French locality of Coulaines near Le Mans, was concluded in late 843 between Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, and his nobility and clergy. Charles the Bald and Treaty of Coulaines are Carolingian dynasty.

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The Treaty of Mersen or Meerssen, concluded on 8 August 870, was a treaty to partition the realm of Lothair II, known as Lotharingia, by his uncles Louis the German of East Francia and Charles the Bald of West Francia, the two surviving sons of Emperor Louis I the Pious.

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Treaty of Verdun

The Treaty of Verdun, agreed in, divided the Frankish Empire into three kingdoms between Lothair I, Louis II and Charles II, the surviving sons of the emperor Louis I, the son and successor of Charlemagne.

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Umayyad state of Córdoba

The Umayyad state of Córdoba was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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Wenilo (archbishop of Sens)

Wenilo (died 865) was the archbishop of Sens from 836 or 837.

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Wessex

The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.

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West Francia

In medieval historiography, West Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom of France and extends from the year 843, from the Treaty of Verdun, to 987, the beginning of the Capetian dynasty.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Bald

Also known as Charles II (Holy Roman Empire), Charles II of France, Charles II the Bald, Charles II, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles II, King of West Francia, Charles II, King of the Franks, Charles II, King of the West Franks, Charles le Chauve, Emperor Charles II, Emperor Charles the Bald, Emperor of the West and king of the West Franks Charles II, French king Charles II, Karl II, Holy Roman Emperor, Karl der Kahle, King Charles the Bald.

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Charles the Bald, the Glossary

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823 births

877 deaths

9th-century kings of Italy

9th-century kings of West Francia

Dukes of Maine

Dukes of Swabia

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