Louis the German
Hludowicus Germanicus
King of East Francia · King of Bavaria
804 – 876
Biography
Middle son of Louis the Pious, awarded East Francia at the Treaty of Verdun — the eastern kernel that would slowly congeal into the medieval Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. He spent forty years defending his realm against Slavs and Magyars on the eastern frontier and intervening repeatedly in the affairs of his brothers.
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: Lothair I, Charles the Bald
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