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Charles the Simple returned to France to regain the throne. His army, supported by a Lotharingian army and a group of soldiers, faced King Robert's army at Soissons in June 923. According to Richerus, Robert was killed in battle by Count Fulbert [21] or according to other historians, by Charles the Simple. Despite the death of Robert, his army ...
Charles the Simple (879–929), also counted as Charles III, reigned 893–922 Charles IV of France (1294–1328), called "the Fair", reigned 1322–1328 Charles V of France (1338–1380), called "the Wise", reigned 1364–1380
Charles the Simple, king of West Francia, in what is called the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, granted Rollo lands between the river Epte and the sea in exchange for Rollo agreeing to end his brigandage, swearing allegiance to him, religious conversion and a pledge to defend the Seine's estuary from other Viking raiders.
The peace between King Charles the Simple and his powerful vassal was not seriously disturbed until about 921 when Charles' favoritism towards Hagano aroused rebellion. Supported by many of the clergy and by some of the most powerful of the Frankish nobles, Robert took up arms, drove Charles into Lotharingia , and was himself crowned king of ...
Following Rollo's defeat, the King of the West Franks, Charles the Simple, granted him a territory in the northern lands of his kingdom in exchange of an oath of fealty and his religious conversion. This territory, located between the mouth of the Seine and Rouen , a city Rollo had previously raided and seized in 876, officially formed the fief ...
Hagano was a petty nobleman (mediocris) who achieved influence in Lotharingia and West Francia during the rule of Charles the Simple (898–922). He was a relative of Charles' first wife, Frederuna, and was originally from Lotharingia.
King Charles III strongly condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine as he referenced Charles de Gaulle’s Free French resistance movement in the Second World War when France suffered under Nazi ...
Eadgifu or Edgifu (d. in or after 951), also known as Edgiva or Ogive (Old English: Ēadgifu), was Queen of the West Franks as the wife of King Charles the Simple.She was a daughter of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex and England, and his second wife Ælfflæd.