Louis the Pious

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Louis the Pious
Emperor of the Romans
Ludwik I Pobożny.jpg
Louis the Pious, contemporary depiction from 826 as a miles Christi (soldier of Christ), with a poem of Rabanus Maurus overlaid. Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Codex Reg. lat 124, f.4v
Emperor of the Carolingian Empire
813–840
11 September 813
PredecessorCharlemagne
SuccessorLothair I
King of the Franks
814–840
PredecessorCharlemagne
Successor
King of Aquitaine
781–814
PredecessorCharlemagne as
King of the Franks
SuccessorPepin I
Born778
Cassinogilum
Died20 June 840(840-06-20) (aged 61–62)
Ingelheim
Burial
Abbey of Saint-Arnould
SpouseErmengarde of Hesbaye
Judith of Bavaria
Issue
HouseCarolingian
FatherCharlemagne
MotherHildegarde
ReligionChalcedonian Christianity

Louis the Pious, also called Louis I, (778 - 840) was the third Carolingian King of the Franks and the second Holy Roman Emperor (814 - 840) and the King of Aquitaine (781 - 814). He was Charlemagne's sixth son. When Louis died, he divided his kingdom among his sons.

Louis The Pious Media

  • Charlemagne crowns Louis the Pious

  • The map describes how Europe was when Charlesmagne died. The map is one of the tables made by the TCI Cartographic Office for the Italian Encyclopedia of Giovanni Treccani Institute

  • CAROLINGIANS. Louis I, dit le Pieux (the Pious). 814-840 AD. *AR Denier (20mm, 1.65 g, 1h). Uncertain mint. Struck 822-840 AD.*+ HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross; pellet in each quarter*+ XPISTIANA RELIGIO, temple; cross within.

  • Louis the Pious doing penance at Attigny in 833

  • Louis on a denarius from Sens, 818–823

  • Louis's son Charles the Bald as depicted in the Vivian Bible, c. 845

  • Louis on a sesquisolidus, essentially Roman in design

  • The parting of the Carolingian Empire by the Treaty of Verdun in 843

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