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Topic: King of Western Francia


  
  Louis III of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
865 – 5 August 882), king of Western Francia, was the second son of King Louis the Stammerer and Ansgarde, and became king, jointly with his brother Carloman, on his father's death in 879.
Although doubts were cast upon their legitimacy, the brothers obtained recognition and in March 880 divided their father's realm at Amiens, Louis received the northern part, Francia (Neustria).
In the summer of 880, the brothers Carloman and Louis marched against him, took Mâcon and the northern parts of Boso's realm.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_III_of_France   (230 words)

  
 Carolingian Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Charlemagne, Pippin's son, became King of the Franks in 768 and was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in 800.
Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy was elected king, and Charles III was imprisoned.
Louis IV King of France 936 to 954, was born September 10, 920 at Laon, Aisne, France, the son of King Charles III and Princess Eadgifu of England.
www.paris-walking-tours.com /carolingiandynasty.html   (3674 words)

  
 FRANCIA
Margraves & Electors of Brandenburg & Kings of Prussia
This reveals the relative strengh of the Western and Eastern Frankish kingdoms, and the persistent ruthlessness of Charles the Bald and Louis the German.
Henry of Guise was of the house of Anjou and Lorraine, descendants of King John II of France.
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 List of French monarchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Treaty of Verdun established the Kingdom of Western Francia in 843.
The Merovingian kings began as mere chieftains, the oldest known being Pharamond.
The history of France as recounted in the "Grandes Chroniques de France," and particularly in the personal copy produced for King Charles V between 1370 and 1380 that is the saga of the three great dynasties, the Merovingians, Carolingians, and the Capetian Rulers of France, that shaped the institutions and the frontiers of the realm.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_French_monarchs   (1006 words)

  
 The Periphery of Francia: Spain, Britain, Eastern Europe, & Scandinavia
The Kings of Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland, 845-1795
the King of Castile and León responsible for the conquest of the heartland of Islâmic Spain: Andalusia.
King Egbert of Wessex, who had spent time in exile at the court of Charlemagne, came to be considered the first true King of England.
www.friesian.com /perifran.htm   (11158 words)

  
 magoo.com: Scots Kings—Including Kings of Dal Riada who Reigned from Ireland by Hugh McGough
"King of Fortrenn [Picts] and King of Dal Riada." [796].
(Aengus Buiding (Buaidnech) MacFeideilmid, King of Dal Riata)
Fiatach Finn was King of Ulster #25 and King of Ireland #103.
www.magoo.com /hugh/scotskings.html   (9388 words)

  
 Charles the Bald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Charles the Bald (Charles I of France and Holy Emperor Charles II) (823 - 877) Roman emperor and king of the Franks was the son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his second wife Judith.
The settlement gave the Bald the kingdom of the western which practically corresponded with what is now as far as the Meuse the Saône and the Rhone with the addition of the Spanish as far as the Ebro.
Charles was recalled Francia and after the death of Louis German (28th August 876) in his turn an attempt to seize his kingdom but Andernach met with a shameful defeat (8th 876).
www.freeglossary.com /Charles_the_Bald   (773 words)

  
 Charlemagne's Biography
Around the king gathered a court of administrative nobles and clergymen- the seneschal or head of the palace, the “count palatine”or chief justice, the “palsgraves”or judges of the palace court, and a hundred scholars, servants, and clerks.
When King Offa of Mercia sent Alcuin on a mission to Charlemagne, the latter begged the scholar to remain; Alcuin, glad to be out of England when the Danes were “laying it desolate, and dishonoring the monasteries with adultery,”consented to stay.
In 810 the king of Jutland invaded Frisia and was repulsed; but shortly thereafter, if we may follow the chronicle of the Monk of St. Gall, Charlemagne, from his palace at Narbonne, was shocked to see Danish pirate vessels in the Gulf of Lyons.
www.chronique.com /Library/MedHistory/charlemagne.htm   (4471 words)

  
 History
The presentation of the surveyed, marked and inspected trail Camino Real, King's Highway, or the Old San Antonio Road, was made to the State of Texas on that afternoon by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Kings Highway, Camino Real, Old San Antonio Road, marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas, A.D. In 1929, the Texas Legislature declared the Zivley surveyed Old San Antonio Road to be one of the Historic Trails of Texas.
These surveys were either bounded on one side by the old road, or if they crossed it the course and distance from the nearest corner to the said crossing was in most instances stated, so that the relocation of the road in that part of the State was only a question of time and labor.
www.texandesigns.com /kingshwy/history.htm   (6618 words)

  
 Our Family - pafc261 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Adelaide was the wife of the French king Louis II and mother of the French king Charles III.
Ansgarde was the wife of the French king Louis II and mother of the French kings Louis III and Carloman (joint).
Carloman (died 884), king of Western Francia, was the eldest son of King Louis the Stammerer, and became king, together with his brother Louis III, on his father's death in 879.
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 History of THE FRANKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
After the death of Dagobert the Frankish kings gradually lose power to their own lieutenants, in a pattern similar to what is happening at this same time in Japan (the process leading there to rule by shoguns).
The mayors of the palace gradually add to their domestic duties the roles of tutor to royal princes, adviser to the king on matters of policy and eventually even commander of the royal army.
Francia Media, an ambiguous region between them, is the richest strip of territory.
www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab74   (2721 words)

  
 magoo.com: Irish Kings by Hugh McGough
Many of these kings are listed in the Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, a database containing the genealogy of the British Royal family, those linked to it via blood or marriage relationships, and the linage of the rulers of many other parts of the world, including Ireland.
According to the Encyclopedia of the Celts, Midhir Midar (mi'yâr) was the King of Sidhe of Femen, and the fairy lover of Etain, the queen.
Baine, daughter of the king of Alba, was the mother of Fearadhach Finnfeachtnach; Cruife, daughter of the king of Britain, was the mother of Corb Olum; and Aine, daughter of the king of Saxony, was the mother of Tibraide Tireach.
www.magoo.com /hugh/irishkings.html   (10951 words)

  
 BOSO
In 870 Charles the Bald, King of Western Francia, married Boso's sister Richilde.
Louis ruled as a subordinate king of Aquitaine, but because of his youth, it was Boso who took care of the administration of that realm.
Boso joined with other western Frankish nobles and advocated making Louis the sole heir of the western kingdom, but eventually both brothers were elected kings.
www.kopete.org /BOSO.html   (532 words)

  
 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
San Luis Rey de Francia was the ninth and last misssion to be founded by Father-President Lasuen, and it closed a critical gap between San Diego and San Juan Capistrano.
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is the 18th in a chain of 21 California Missions established by the Spanish Franciscans.
San Luis Rey de Francia, "King of Missions," was the eighteenth of the Franciscan establishments in California; and the second founded in what is now the County of San Diego-second therefore on El Camino Real.
www.athanasius.com /camission/luis.htm   (1152 words)

  
 Franks and Anglo-Saxons 613-899 by Sanderson Beck
Kings are obligated to promote justice, and one who does not rule correctly is not really a king and should lose his throne.
The king studied grammar with Peter the Deacon of Pisa and was taught rhetoric, dialectic, and astrology by Alcuin.
During the 8th century several kings in Northumbria were murdered in their struggles for power, while Mercia dominated the kingdoms south of the Humber River.
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 ON THINGS FRENCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES
By 911 the western part of Charlemagne’s empire was an independent kingdom, and its king was known in Latin, the language of medieval governments, as "Rex Francorum", or "king of the Franks".
Although the name "Francia" was used as the name of the realm, only those natives of the Ile de France referred to themselves as natives of France.
Since the king claimed sovereignty over these lands, these lands, along with the Ile de France, were collectively called "Francia", much to the confusion of historians.
scholar76.tripod.com /francia.htm   (1613 words)

  
 FRANCIA
To decrease loading time, this text on French kings was extracted from: The Successors of Rome: Germania and Francia.
Indeed, for many centuries, Latin was the only written language over an area, "greater" Francia, that came to stretch from Norway to Portugal and from Iceland to Catholic parts of the Ukraine.
The Westerners were little disposed to regard a woman as a legitimate emperor--women could not rule in the law of the Salic Franks (hence the "Salic Law" against female succession).
www.uncg.edu /rom/courses/dafein/civ/kings.htm   (2665 words)

  
 Chapter 49
For he has heard of the deceptions of those quarrels that are rising up against you and because of his love for you he wishes with an ardent soul to calm their commotions.
Lothar, king of Western Francia (954 - 986), son of Louis IV and Gerberga.
Bruno, duke of Lotharingia and archbishop of Cologne (953 - 965), son of Henry I, king of Germany and brother of Gerberga, queen of Western Francia.
www.the-orb.net /orb_done/dudo/49-bruno   (650 words)

  
 Kings of France
After the collapse of the Western Empire, and the occupation of much of Gaul by the Franks, Roman power never returned far enough to come into conflict with the Frankish kingdom (except, to an extent, in the South of Italy).
This, of course, reveals the relative strengh of the Western and Eastern Frankish kingdoms, and the persistent ruthlessness of Charles the Bald and Louis the German.
The Carolingians of Lorraine did not last much longer than the royal lines, though their blood continued in their in-laws among the local nobility, most importantly the house of Alsace, which succeeded to the Duchy of Lorraine and the County of Flanders (see the Nobility page on this website.)
www.fortunecity.com /millennium/family/1155/kingofra.htm   (2664 words)

  
 The Timeline
Dagobert remarried Giselle de Razès (671), niece of the king of the Visgoths.
Territory on the western coast of West Francia was ceded to them which was afterwards known as the Duchy of Normandy and they were known as Normans.
In the struggle between emperor and church the king of Germany, KIng Henry IV (Holy Roman Empire) was obliged to go to Canossa and submit to Pope Gregory VII.
www.hickmanresearch.com /genealogy/hickman/timeline_he.html   (5428 words)

  
 884 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
May 17 - A resident of Rome is elected Pope Adrian III.
May 10 - Ahmad ibn Tulun, Emir of Egypt
December 12 - Carloman, king of the West Franks
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/884   (130 words)

  
 Auto Tour Guide of Califoria, Best Western Lodging, California Attractions, California Weather, California Events, ...
The late President Richard Nixon brought notoriety here, by making a 25-acre enclave overlooking the ocean his Western White House during extended visits.
It was the 18th in the chain and one of the largest facilities of the Roman Catholic Church in North America.
Became known as the “King of the Missions,” it connected San Juan Capistrano with San Diego.
www.bestwesterncalifornia.com /CircleTour/tour16-3.htm   (643 words)

  
 VIKING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As plunderers, hooligans, but also mercenaries and soldiers of fortune, the Vikings populate the American imagination with dragon ships and horned helmets, from a Minnesota football team to Hoggetown's medieval fair.
Wednesday: The post-Viking Middle Ages [Sawyer 57-71]; see a portrait of Valdemar the Great on one of his coins and a Romantic version of the story about the Dannebrog at the battle at Lyndanis (1219); visit Tallinn, ca.
Wednesday: Kings and things [Sawyer 84-85 and 89-92; Page 155-164]; see the itinerary of the Eriksgata, ca.
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/fcurta/VIKING.html   (1278 words)

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