Pepin’s son, Pepin II Lothair and Louis rejected this decision. Soon before Pepin died, Louis proposed another partition in 837 and gave the Aquitaine, present-day southern France, to Charles. The inheritance issue remained problematic for the last few years of the lengthy reign of Louis. Pepin and Louis I again allied against Lothair and restored their father to power in 834. However all three sons met him and Louis once again was deposed. In 833 Louis met Lothair on the Field of Lies near Colmar, Alsace, to arrange a settlement. In 830 Lothair revolted and became sole ruler of his father’s empire.įearing Lothair’s overlordship, Pepin and Louis restored their father to power. Louis I wished to change the dynastic succession to favor Charles and in 830 granted Charles some of the lands that had been part of the inheritance of Lothair and Pepin, who now felt threatened. The succession evolved into a dynastic crisis when Louis I married Judith of Bavaria in 820 and they had a son, Charles the Bald (823–877). Louis I named Pepin I as the king of the Aquitaine and Louis as king of Bavaria, believing this would provide an orderly succession. Lothair, as the eldest, was named coemperor and became the primary heir of Louis at the Assembly of Aachen in 817. None of Charlemagne’s heirs possessed the leadership qualities of their grandfather. After Emperor Charlemagne died in 814 his sole surviving legitimate son Louis I the Pious (778–840) inherited his vast empire and became emperor of the west. The Treaty of Verdun, which was signed in 843, was the second step toward the dissolution of the Carolingian dynasty.
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