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{1053} CHARLES-III



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Born: 09/17/0879 France
Married: 10/07/0919 (40) France
Died: 10/07/0929 (50) Saint-Fursy, France
Father:   {1055} Louis II (0846 - 0879) (33)
Mother: {4079} Adelaide ( - )
Mother/Wife: {1054} EADGIFU
Born: 01/01/0902
Married: 10/07/0919 (17) France
Died: 01/01/0955 (53)
Father:   {16648} Edward (0874 - 0924) (50)
Mother:   {16649} Ælfflæd ( - )
           Children:
1 {1051} Louis IV    b01/01/0921 [], d09/10/0954 []    ( 33.7)
       { 1052 }   Gerbaug    b01/01/0913 [Saxony, Germany], d05/05/0984 [Reims, France]    ( 71.3)
DIAGNOSTIC: End of Children List
General Notes for Charles-III
Charles the Simple.

On 7 October 919 Charles re-married to Eadgifu, the daughter of Edward the Elder, King of England. By this time Charles' excessive favouritism towards a certain Hagano had turned the aristocracy against him. He endowed Hagano with monasteries which were already the benefices of other barons, alienating these barons. In Lotharingia he earned the enmity of the new duke, Gilbert, who declared for the German king Henry the Fowler in 919.[1] Opposition to Charles in Lotharingia was not universal, however, and he retained the support of Wigeric. In 922 some of the West Frankish barons, led by Robert of Neustria and Rudolph of Burgundy, revolted. Robert, who was Odo's brother, was elected by the rebels and crowned in opposition to Charles, who had to flee to Lotharingia. On 2 July 922, Charles lost his most faithful supporter, Herve, Archbishop of Rheims, who had succeeded Fulk in 900.

He returned the next year (923) with a Norman army but was defeated on 15 June near Soissons by Robert, who died in the battle.[1] Charles was captured and imprisoned in a castle at Péronne under the guard of Herbert II of Vermandois.[3] Rudolph was elected to succeed him. In 925 the Lotharingians accepted Rudolph as their king. Charles died in prison on 7 October 929 and was buried at the nearby abbey of Saint-Fursy. Though he had had many children by Frederuna, it was his son by Eadgifu who would eventually be crowned in 936 as Louis IV of France. In the initial aftermath of Charles's defeat, Eadgifu and Louis fled to England.


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