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  Treaty of Mersen - TheBestLinks.com - Louis the Pious, Netherlands, Treaty of Verdun, 869, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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The Treaty of Mersen (870) was an agreement of the division of the Carolingian Empire by the sons of Louis I, Charles II of the West Franks (France) and Louis the German of East Franks (Germany), signed at the town of Meerssen, which is now in the Netherlands.
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 MERSEN, TREATY OF - LoveToKnow Article on MERSEN, TREATY OF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
MERSEN, TREATY OF - LoveToKnow Article on MERSEN, TREATY OF but none of them reached more than the age of twenty or twentyfive; this was the age of the rois fainants.
MERSEN (MEERSSEN), TREATY OF, a treaty concluded on the 8th of August 870 at Mersen, in Holland, between Charles the Bald and his half-brother, Louis the German, by which the kingdom of their nephew Lothair II.
Charles received a portion of the kingdom of Lothair afterwards called Lorraine, extending from the mouths of the Rhine to Toul, together with the town of Besancon, the Lyonnais, the Viennais, the Vivarais, and the Uzege, i.e.
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 Verdun Treaty Of: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
VERDUN, TREATY OF the partition of Charlemagne's empire among three sons of Louis I, emperor of the West.
The Treaty of Verdun represented the beginning of dissolution of Charlemagne's empire into political units that foreshadowed the nations of Western Europe.
The Treaty of Verdun was, of course, a mere breathing-spell between new...
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 AllRefer.com - Alsace : History, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The Treaty of Verdun (843; see Verdun, Treaty of) included it in Lotharingia; the Treaty of Mersen (870) put it in the kingdom of the East Franks (later Germany).
The Treaty of Westphalia (1648) transferred all Hapsburg lands in Alsace to France.
Lower Alsace was conquered (1680–97) by Louis XIV of France; the Treaty of Ryswick (1697) confirmed French possession.
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 Mersen, Treaty of
Mersen, Treaty of, 870, redivision of the Carolingian empire by the sons of
France obtained the territories roughly corresponding to the modern Netherlands, Belgium, and Lorraine and Germany received Alsace and the left bank of the Lower Rhine.
Verdun, Treaty of - Verdun, Treaty of, the partition of Charlemagne's empire among three sons of Louis I, emperor of...
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The treaty concluded the Finnish War and was signed in the present-day Finnish town of Hamina, which was located in a part of Finland that previously had been ceded to Russia by Sweden....
1814 - Treaty of KielThe Treaty of Kiel, was a settlement between Sweden and Denmark-Norway on January 14, 1814, whereby the Danish king, a loser in the Napoleonic wars, ceded Norway to the king of Sweden, in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
The treaty was signed by Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Fremont and General Andres Pico on January 13, 1847 on the kitchen table of Tomas Feliz's six-room adobe house.
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 The Avalon Project : Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of ...
The Avalon Project : Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II A.D. The Avalon Project
A treaty, entered into in 870, regarding the subdivision of the central one of the three kingdoms founded by the treaty of Verdun.
It was preliminary to the treaty of Mersen.
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 Alsace (Traditional province, France)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The division in Upper- and Lower-Alsace, initially known as the counties of Sundgau and Nordgau, respectively, was probably based on the Roman dioceses of Basle and Strasbourg.
In 843, the treaty of Verdun divided the Carolingian Empire among the three sons of Louis le Pieux (778-840), Charlemagne's son and successor.
In 1648, by the treaty of Munster, the Emperor ceded both landgraviates of Lower- and Upper Alsace to France, as well as the ten Imperial cities (Haguenau, Landau [later ceded to Bavarian Palatinate in 1815], Wissembourg, Rosheim, Obernai, Sélestat, Kaysersberg, Turckheim, Colmar and Munster) which had constituted the rich Decapole in 1354.
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 Carolingian : search word
Charlemagne, Pippin's son, became King of the Franks in 768 and was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in 800.
After the division of the Empire in the Treaty of Verdun in 843, the Carolingians initially continued to hold the throne in all three sections that were created.
In the Middle, the Northern Italy or Lotharingia, the major branch of the family ruled till 887, but further division was based on the Treaty of Mersen in 870.
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 MERSEN (MEERSSEN), TREATY OF - Online Information article about MERSEN (MEERSSEN), TREATY OF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
MERSEN (MEERSSEN), TREATY OF, a treaty concluded on the 8th of See also:
Great importance has been attached to the determination of this frontier by some historians, who consider that it coincided with the dividing See also:
languages; but nothing is known of the bases upon which the negotiations were effected, and the situation created by this treaty came to an end in 879.
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 Lotharingia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
His son, King Lothair (for whom the region is named), was given Lotharingia as a kingdom, while Italy and Burgundy went to Louis II and Charles.
King Lothair died in 869, and in 870 his lands were fairly evenly divided between the East Frankish and West Frankish kingdoms (i.e., Germany and France) in the Treaty of Mersen.
From the Treaty of Verdun until the present time the territories comprised in Lotharingia, particularly Upper Lorraine, have been contested between Germany and France.
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The treaty abolished the Ottoman Empire and obliged Turkey to...
Over the years, a number of treaties were needed for the building and subsequent use of the Panama Canal.
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 List of treaties - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is a chronological list of important international treaties, agreements, peaces, etc..
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This is a map of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England as they appeared in the eighth and ninth centuries, prior to the Treaty of Chippenham (or Wedmore).
View this map to see the effects of the Treaty of Verdun on the Frankish empire in 843.
There are two maps: one depicts the consequences of the Treaty of Mersen in 870, while the other shows papal acquisitions in Italy during the eighth century.
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 List of treaties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
1658 - Treaty of Roskilde - Denmark-Norway cedes territory to Sweden
1814 - Treaty of Kiel - Cedes Norway to Sweden
1901 - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty - Nullifies the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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 Lorraine (Traditional province, France)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The alliance was confirmed in 842 by the Strasbourg Oath, which is the oldest text written both in Romanic and Germanic languages.
By the treaty of Mersen, his kingdom was divided between his uncles, Charles le Chauve and Louis le Germanique.
This area was reincorporated to France in 1919 by the treaty of Versailles.
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 Treaties, Laws, Policies, and Court Cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Treaty of Verdun – 843, divided Charlemagne's empire among Louis the Pious's sons Louis II the German,
Treaty of Mersen 870, Louis II took land from Charles II Kalmar Union – 1397, Margaret I made grandnephew Eric king of united Denmark, Sweden and Norway
Treaty of Kiel – 1814, Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden
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 40th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Yet he succeeded in gaining control of Aquitaine after the capture of Pippin's son in 864; and, by the Treaty of Meersen (870) with Louis the German, he received western Lorraine.
Louis and his cousin Louis the Younger, ruler of the East Frankish kingdom, agreed to maintain the division of Lotharingia that their respective fathers had negotiated in the Treaty of Mersen in 870.
Louis had hoped to redistribute offices of state but was frustrated by the Frankish magnates, who had accepted him as king on the condition that he respect their possessions and rights.
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 AllRefer.com - Mersen, Treaty of (German History) - Encyclopedia
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 Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?"
  That is, Renan appears to agree with Hobsbawm, although R. thinks they date back perhaps to the Treaty of Verdun of 843 (which, according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, “represented the beginning of dissolution of Charlemagne’s empire into political units that foreshadowed the nations of Western Europe.
Not sufficient: “Community of interest brings about commercial treaties...
It is not the soil any more than the race which makes a nation.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Mersen, Treaty of @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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MERSEN, TREATY OF [Mersen, Treaty of] 870, redivision of the Carolingian empire by the sons of Louis I, Charles the Bald (later Charles II) of the West Franks (France) and Louis the German of the East Franks (Germany), signed at Mersen (Dutch Meersen), now in the Netherlands.
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 Burgundy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
By the division of the Carolingian Empire in the treaty of Verdun (843), Burgundy went to Lothair as part of Lotharingia.
By the Treaty of Mersen after Lothair's death (870), Burgundy and Arles passed to Charles II the Bald, king of Francia and imperial heir (875-877).
In 879, Richard the Justiciar created the duchy of Burgundy separate from Arles.
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 French History Timeline
The Treaty of Verdun was the treaty Louis and Charles presented to Lothar.
The Big Four meet in Paris in 1919 to discuss the Versailles Treaty: Lloyd George of England, Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France, and Wilson of the U.S. Charles de Gaulle and the liberation of Paris
The Germans greatly resented the humiliation of this treaty, and this was one of the factors which sparked WWII.
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 Ancestors and Family of Louis II the German
In 858—59 Louis turned on Charles and unsuccessfully invaded the West Frankish kingdom (France), but both brothers soon directed their attention to the lands of Lothair’s heirs, Emperor of the West Louis II and King Lothair of Lotharingia.
After King Lothair’s death Lotharingia was divided between them by the Treaty of Mersen (870).
The death (875) of Louis II renewed the war between Louis the German and Charles; Charles quickly conquered Italy and was crowned emperor of the West.
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 Verdun, Treaty of
Verdun, Treaty of, the partition of Charlemagne's empire among three sons of
It was superseded in 870 by the Treaty of
Strasbourg, Oath of - Strasbourg, Oath of, 842, oath sworn by Charles the Bald (later Holy Roman Emperor Charles II) and...
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