Ludwig III. (France)

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Ludwig III. (* around 864; † August 5, 882 in Saint-Denis near Paris ) was King of the West Franconian Empire from 879 to 882 .

Coin from the 18th century with the fictional portraits of the kings Ludwig III. and Karlmann II.
High grave of Ludwig III. in the cathedral of Saint-Denis near Paris

Life

Ludwig was the son of King Ludwig the Stammler and Ansgard of Burgundy . Through his mother Ansgard he was related to the Counts of Burgundy . An exact year of birth is not known, but he must have been born between December 862 and 865, as his parents married in March 862 and a younger son was born to them before his father abandoned his mother in 866.

After the death of his father (April 10, 879), a noble group under Hugo the Abbot and Gauzlin made it possible for Ludwig to be succeeded in western France . In September 879 he was consecrated by the Archbishop of Sens and thus became King of the West Franconia (about today's France ).

In 879, the grandsons of Charlemagne , fixed in writing in the Treaty of Ribemont in 880 , gave the western part of Lotharingia to the East Frankish King Ludwig III. ; Lotharingia thus belonged from now on (with an interruption from 911 to 925) in its entirety to Eastern Franconia and formed the Duchy of Lorraine .

In March 880 there was an internal division of the empire in Amiens between Ludwig and his brother Karlmann . Ludwig received Franzien and Neustria , Karlmann the south.

The Vikings and Ludwig III also invaded the entire Carolingian period. only managed to repel the attacks of the Normans briefly with the battle of Saucourt (August 3, 881) . This victory is celebrated in the Old High German Ludwigslied .

Ludwig III. died on August 5, 882 - childless and without ever having married - in Saint-Denis near Paris and was buried in the cathedral of Saint-Denis .

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  • Félix Grat, Jacques de Font-Réaulx, Georges Tessier, Robert-Henri Bautier (eds.): Recueil des actes de Louis II le Bègue, Louis III et Carloman II, rois de France (877-884) . Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 1978.

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predecessor Office successor
Ludwig II., The regular King of Western France
879–882 (with Karlmann ) 		Karlmann
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION West Frankish king
DATE OF BIRTH at 864
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 882
Place of death Saint-Denis near Paris