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Also Known As Hugues le Blanc • Hugh the White • Hugues le Grand
Died June 16, 956 or June 17, 956
Charles II
Holy Roman emperor
Louis III
king of France
Louis II, engraving
Louis II
king of France
Eudes
king of Franks
Carloman
king of France [died 884]
Charles III
king of France
Fulk, Archbishop of Reims
archbishop of Reims
Grimoald
duke of Benevento
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
Louis the Pious
Louis I
Holy Roman emperor
Clovis I
Merovingian king
Charles Martel in full armour.
Charles Martel
Frankish ruler
St. Gregory of Tours
Frankish scholar
Pippin III
Pippin III
king of the Franks
Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus
Frankish archbishop
Louis II
king of the East Franks
Brunhild
queen of Austrasia
Arnulf
Arnulf
Holy Roman emperor
Lothar I
Lothar I
Holy Roman emperor
Ansgar, Saint
Saint Ansgar
missionary