Louis II King of East Franks 
Louis was born about 0805 in Germany. Louis' father was Louis I ("the Pious") Holy Roman Emperor and his mother was Ermengarde de Hesbaye. His paternal grandparents were Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor and Hildegarde; his maternal grandfather was Count Ingerman I of Hesbaye. He had a brother and two sisters, named the Bald, Princess and Adelaide. He was the second oldest of the four children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Lothar and Gisela. He died on August 28th, 0876.General Notes
Also Known As: Louis "Le Germanique". AKA: Louis, King de Baviere. Born: either 804 or 806, son of Louis I, King de France and Ermengarde d'Esbay, Some sources assert that Louis was born in the year 806. There also is some disagreement as to whether this Louis should be Louis I or Louis II, King of Germany. The resolution to that disagreement lies in whether one can consider Louis' father as Louis I, King of Germany. Note - between 817 and 876: King of Allemania from 817 to 876. Following a new division of the Empire in favor of Charles "Le Chauve", Louis II joined his brothers Lothaire and Pepin in a revolt against their father King Louis I, "Le Debonnaire" (also "Le Pieux") of France. When Lotaire became Emperor, Louis II joined him in a fight against Charles "Le Chauve". In 858, Louis leaves Worms and invades his brother Charles' kingdom, with the support of Aquitaine and Bretagne. He begins to distribute the lands among counts and bishops. Charles in turn seeks refuge in Bourgogne. In Reims, on 25 November 858, the conference of bishops condemns Louis for the cruelty of his troops, sending Christian against Christian, and brother against brother. On 7 June 860, the brothers are reconciled in Saint-Castor de Coblence. Meanwhile the Normands pillage Amiens, Noyon, Beauvais, the Iberian peninsula and take Pisa in Italy. In 861, they devastate Paris. Upon the death of Lotaire II, Louis II got a part of Lorraine through the Treaty of Mersen (870). Married in 827 in Bavaria: Emma de Baviere, daughter of Welf, Count de Baviere . Died: on 28 Aug 876.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0635 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.16 Dec 0714 in Junille, Meuse, France
- b.0689 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium d.22 Oct 0741 in Quierzy-sur-Oise, Aisne, France
- b.0654 in Aipois (Chalpaida), Austrasia d.> 0689 in Orplegrandmonast, Brabant, Vosges, France
- b.0714 in Austrasia, France d.24 Sep 0768 in St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France
- b.~ 0650
- b.~ 0686 in Austrasia, France d.0724 in France
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- b.02 Apr 0742 in Ingelheim, Rheinhessan, Hesse-Darmstadt d.28 Jan 0814 in Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.~ 0660 in probably Merovingia d.> 0720
- b.~ 0720 in Laon, Aisne, France d.12 Jul 0783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, France
- b.Aug 0778 in Chasseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne near Poitiers, Aquitaine, France d.20 Jun 0840 in Petersaue, Ingelheim, Rheinhessan, Hesse-Darmstadt
- b.~ 0710 in Swabia, Germany
- b.~ 0757 d.~ 0782
- b.< 0709
- d.> 0724
- b.~ 0805 in Germany d.28 Aug 0876
- b.0752 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium
- b.0773 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium d.03 Oct 0818 in Angers, Anjou, France
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Individual Additional Information
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Associated external link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_the_German
Details of Louis' family with Emma of Bavaria
Source/Citation
Rosamond, Frankish kingdom under Carolingians
Rosamond, Frankish kingdom under Carolingians