Person:Louis le Pieux (1)

Name^[8]	Louis Ier "le Pieux" des Francs
Alt Name	Lodewijk I _____
Alt Name^[6]	Louis _____, King of the Aquitainians
Alt Name^[6]	Louis I "the Pious" _____, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Alt Name^[8]	Louis Ier "le Débonnaire" _____
Gender	Male
Birth^[6]	Bet 16 Apr 778 and Oct 778	Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, Vienne, FranceHouse of Carolingian
Marriage	Est 794	to Ermengarde de Hesbaye
Title (nobility)^[8]	28 Jan 814	Roi des Francs et Empereur d'Occident
Marriage		not married to Theudelinde de Sens
Other		No accepted wife with Theudelinde de Sens
Marriage	Feb 819	Aachen, Rheinland, Preußen, Germanyto Judith von Bayern
Death^[6]	20 Jun 840	Ingelheim, Hessen, Germany
Burial^[6]		Metz, Moselle, France
Reference Number^[1]		Q43974

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Louis the Pious (; ; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aquitaine from 781. As the only surviving son of Charlemagne and Hildegard, he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814, a position which he held until his death, save for the period 833–34, during which he was deposed.

During his reign in Aquitaine, Louis was charged with the defence of the empire's southwestern frontier. He conquered Barcelona from the Emirate of Córdoba in 801 and asserted Frankish authority over Pamplona and the Basques south of the Pyrenees in 812. As emperor he included his adult sons, Lothair, Pepin and Louis, in the government and sought to establish a suitable division of the realm among them. The first decade of his reign was characterised by several tragedies and embarrassments, notably the brutal treatment of his nephew Bernard of Italy, for which Louis atoned in a public act of self-debasement.

In the 830s his empire was torn by civil war between his sons, only exacerbated by Louis's attempts to include his son Charles by his second wife in the succession plans. Though his reign ended on a high note, with order largely restored to his empire, it was followed by three years of civil war. Louis is generally compared unfavourably to his father, though the problems he faced were of a distinctly different sort.

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