King of France Louis Quentin, I

0778 - 840  (61 years)

• Name	Louis Quentin
  Prefix	King of France
  Suffix	I
  Born	Aug 0778	Chasseneuil, Poitiers, Aquitaine, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	20 Jun 840	Petersau Island, Rhine River, Ingelheim, Germany
  Buried	Cathbedrale D' Aachen, Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia
  Person ID	I445651954	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2012

  
  

  Father	Emperor the Holy Roman Empire Charlemagne Quentin,   b. 2 Apr 742, Ingolheim, Prussia ,   d. 28 Jan 814, Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, (Formerly Prussia) Germany  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Hildegarde, of Vinzgau,   b. 758, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia ,   d. 30 Apr 783, Thionville, Austrasia  (Age 25 years)
  Married	771	Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, (Formerly Prussia) Germany
  Family ID	F226616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Judith, of Bavaria,   b. 800, Bavaria ,   d. 19 Apr 0843, Tours, Indre-et-Loir, France  (Age 43 years)
  Married	Feb 819	Aix la Chapelle, Austrasia
  Children	1. Gisela Quentin,   b. 819,   d. Jul 0874  (Age 55 years)   2. King of the West Franks Charles, II,   b. 13 Jun 823, Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia ,   d. 6 Oct 877, Evreux, France  (Age 54 years)
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2012
  Family ID	F226691	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Princess of Hesbain Irmengard,   b. Abt 0778,   d. 3 Oct 818, Angers, France  (Age 40 years)
  Married	795
  Children	1. Emperor of The holy roman empire Lothar, I,   b. 795, France ,   d. 29 Sep 855, Pruen, Germany  (Age 60 years)   2. Pepin, I, of Aquitaine,   b. 797   3. Adelaide, of Tours,   b. 799   4. Rotrude Quentin,   b. 800   5. Hilegard Quentin,   b. 802,   d. 841  (Age 39 years)   6. King of East Franks Louis, II,   b. 805, Aquitaine, France ,   d. 28 Aug 876, Frankfurt, Germany  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2019
  Family ID	F226878	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Unknown, Mother of Alpaid Quentin
  Children	1. Alpaid Quentin,   b. 794,   d. 852  (Age 58 years)
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2019
  Family ID	F227495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Ruled 814-40. Is usually reckoned as Louis I. The son of Charlemagne, he succeeded his father as king of the Franks and Holy Roman emperor (see Charlemagne ). The great empire built up by Charlemagne was divided after Louis I died, and the next four rulers of this name left little mark on the course of history. Though more cultivated than his father, Charlemagne, according to Magnus Magnusson, author of "Vikings!" (1980), Louis lacked his father's forcefulness. "While Louis pursued his policy of spreading the Christian faith wherever he could", says Magnusson, "civil wars started breaking out within his kingdom, and by the 830s the Frankish empire was beginning to fall apart." He goes on to say that, "In 840 Louis the Pious died, and the great empire he had inherited was divided up between hihis three bickering sons - the eastern part to Louis the German, the west to Charles the Bald, and the centre and Italy to Lothar. And now the disintegration of the Frankish empire set in with a vengeance. Any political unity that Charlemagne had imposed was gone, and the Frankish society became splintered and localised, racked with fueds and treacheries." He says further, "With the Frankish lords at one another's throats, the old Carolingian empire became a Viking hunting ground."