Lothair I
Hlotharius I
Emperor of the Romans · King of Middle Francia · King of Italy
795 – 855
Biography
Eldest son of Louis the Pious and the imperial claimant in the war among his brothers. The Treaty of Verdun of 843 awarded him the imperial title and the long, narrow strip of territory running from the Low Countries through Burgundy to Italy — Middle Francia, the geographically untenable inheritance whose dissolution would shape European borders for the next thousand years.
Events
Three-way partition of the Carolingian Empire among the surviving sons of Louis the Pious after three years of civil war. Lothair I retained the imperial title and a long, narrow Middle Francia stretching from the Low Countries through Burgundy into Italy. Louis the German received East Francia, the kernel of medieval Germany; Charles the Bald received West Francia, the kernel of France. The borders sketched in 843 shaped European politics for the next millennium.
Also there: Louis the German, Charles the Bald
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