Crisis 829 ? 30 Essay, Research Paper
Lois abandons reform, gives part of Lothar?s kingdom to
Charles, more power to his wife Judith and family ? changes and reaction
brought underlying instability of Frankish politics into the open ? whenever a
settlement made too many people with an interest in overturning it for it to be
come a point of equilibrium ? not too many groupings but lack of them, too easy
to change in the wind. All four Louis? sons became focus for aristocratic and
ecclesiastical followings ?? in this
period future Eash Frankish kingdom began to take shape ? Louis the German gets
Kingdom of Germany or Kingdom of East Franks Fontenoy and treaty of Verdun 841 jockeying for position
Louis and Charles v.Lothar RESULTS OF VERDUN 3 kingdoms Charles ? West Francia Lothar ? Middle Kingdom Louis ? East Francia EAST FRANCIA Not people but peoples Alemannia
and Bavari Frankish
Zone North
German Zone ? Frisians and Saxons Divisions to last for centuries.