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Also Known As Louis the Child • Ludwig das Kind
Born 893 • Germany
Died September 20, 911 or September 24, 911
Title / Office king (899-911), Francia Orientalis
House / Dynasty Carolingian dynasty
Louis II
king of the East Franks
Arnulf
Arnulf
Holy Roman emperor
Louis III
king of the East Franks
Hatto I
archbishop of Mainz
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
Brunhild
queen of Austrasia
Lothar I
Lothar I
Holy Roman emperor
Charles II
Holy Roman emperor
Ansgar, Saint
Saint Ansgar
missionary
Lothar
king of Lotharingia
Chilperic I
Merovingian king
Louis II
emperor of Franks
Ebbo of Reims
French archbishop

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