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The Treaty of Verdun (French: Traité de Verdun; German: Vertrag von Verdun), agreed to on 10 August 843, ended the Carolingian civil war and divided the Carolingian Empire between Lothair I, Louis II and Charles II, the surviving sons of the emperor Louis I. The treaty was the culmination of negotiations lasting more than a year.
It was created through the Treaty of Verdun (843) which divided the former empire into three kingdoms. [ a ] The east–west division with the Treaty of Verdun in 843, enforced by the Germanic - Latin language split, "gradually hardened into the establishment of separate kingdoms", [ 1 ] with East Francia becoming (or being) the Kingdom of ...
Charles the Bald was at war with Pippin II from the start of his reign in 840, and the Treaty of Verdun ignored the claimant and assigned Aquitaine to Charles. [9] Accordingly, in June 845, after several military defeats, Charles signed the Treaty of Benoît-sur-Loire and recognised his nephew's rule. This agreement lasted until 25 March 848 ...
Middle Francia (Latin: 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. Middle Francia was allocated to emperor Lothair I, the eldest son and successor of emperor Louis the Pious.
Division of the Carolingian Empire under the Treaty of Verdun (843) Lothair was born in 795, to Louis the Pious and Ermengarde of Hesbaye. His father was the son of the reigning Emperor, Charlemagne. Little is known of Lothair's early life, which was probably passed at the court of his grandfather Charlemagne. In 814, the elderly emperor died ...
Treaty between England and the Holy Roman Empire during the Italian War of 1521–1526 1522 Treaty of Windsor: Between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Henry VIII of England; its main clause was the invasion of France. 1524 Treaty of Malmö: Ends the Swedish War of Liberation. Treaty of Tordesillas: Treaty between the Lord of Monaco and ...
The following year the civil war would end with the Treaty of Verdun, in which the three claimants partitioned the Empire amongst themselves. The Oaths were not preserved in their original form; they were instead copied by the historian Nithard , another grandson of Charlemagne, in a work titled De Dissensionibus Filiorum Ludovici Pii "On the ...
The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun.