Crisis 829 ? 30 Essay, Research Paper

Lois abandons reform, gives part of Lothar?s kingdom to

Charles, more power to his wife Judith and family ? changes and reaction

brought underlying instability of Frankish politics into the open ? whenever a

settlement made too many people with an interest in overturning it for it to be

come a point of equilibrium ? not too many groupings but lack of them, too easy

to change in the wind. All four Louis? sons became focus for aristocratic and

ecclesiastical followings ?? in this

period future Eash Frankish kingdom began to take shape ? Louis the German gets

Kingdom of Germany or Kingdom of East Franks Fontenoy and treaty of Verdun 841 jockeying for position

Louis and Charles v.Lothar RESULTS OF VERDUN 3 kingdoms Charles ? West Francia Lothar ? Middle Kingdom Louis ? East Francia EAST FRANCIA Not people but peoples Alemannia

and Bavari Frankish

Zone North

German Zone ? Frisians and Saxons Divisions to last for centuries.