After Charles the Bald
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• Charles kingdom passed to son Louos – Pope John VIII wanted Louis for emperor – granted estates not unusual early reign – but magnates split into factions surrounding two abbots: Abbots Hugh and Gauzlin – died 878 met with Louis the Younger – two separate regna existed those of Charles the Bald and those of Louis the German – persist into next generation Louis the Younger and Louis the Stammered agreed to help respective sons succeed then by hereditary right. Stammerer: Louis III and Carloman – when Louis died he bequeathed regalia and realm to Louis alone.
• Gauzlin, Conrad etc foresaw political extinction and split kingdom invited eastern kings to intervene in the west. – split kingdom and Louis III and Carloman II both consecrated Kings in 879 – Louis got Francia and Neustria (Gauzlin and Conrad) – Carloman (Hugh) Burgunday and Aquitaine.  L the Younger had to be bought off with Lotharingian lands which Charles the Bald had capture in 870.  Northmew over winter 79 – 80 Boso crowns himself King of Provence – L III and Carloman defeat northmen and Scandinavians – 882 Louis dies chasing young woman into a houe, 884 Carloman dies hunting
• Whole kingdom inherited by Louis the German’s youngest son Charles or Charles the Fat – lacked roots, resources, political friends – Odo filled power vacuum left by death of Gauzlin and Hugh. – vigorous defence against Scandinavian .
• 887 Charles the Fat seriously ill – Odo takes charge after out playing Wido – unexpected victory over the north men – kingdom of the West Franks reconstituted in 888 – separate from other regna and a single entity.
• 9 888 several regna – each regnum king for itself out of indigenous nobility – only legitimate one was Arnulf rejection of a dynastic filter – floodgate of conflicts between equally qualified Frankish magnates – Regino wong not further fragmentation in 888 – Odo succeeds to whoe of Charles the Bald’s kingdom – political entity survives in the West – neither linguistic nor ethnic community- contributed to realm’s identity and viability, an imperial realm (Burgundians, Aquitainians and Franks)
• Odo’s success against Scandinavians crucial in winning him the support that put him on the throne in 888 – core of C of B’s realm menaced by S – ravaged at wil took Rouen in 885 and besieged Paris 885 – 6.
• Odo chasing some rebel and Archbishop Fulk of Rheims consecrated Charles the Straightforward in 89 – Odo upper hand in ensuing trouble – agreed 897 that Charles should succeed him.
• Odo power base in fisclands much lss yjam C of B – no capitularies new and different obstables: secular principalities on way to becoming hereditarily ruled, gobbling up lay abbacies
• Although Odo lost a lot of land 0 multiple lay abbacies, exploited church resources, prepare himself manfully for wa. Post 892 Scandinvian burden lightened
• No Carolingian blood but imitated with rituals hanks to the church, presence in every part of realms.  Odo maintained a presence in every part of the Realm – visiting or receiving letters from.  Roya charters worth travelling for.  93 – 7 struggle with Charles the Straightforward – no division on the realm object of struggle to keep realm whole. mooted – C the B promoted use of written word memoralised the present for the future – firmly locked church into state, significance of rituals and ideology – res republica he had nurtured surveyed shocks 9^th century – realm of Charles preserved in minds of men and attenuated institutions.

Other Notes in this Category

1. After Charles the Bald
2. Aquitaine
3. Caroligians - Vikings and Frankish Empire
4. Charlemagne and the Imperial Coronation of 800
5. Crisis 829 – 30
6. Ecclesia Francorum
7. Evaluation of Charles the Bald in relation to his predecessors
8. Frankish Gaul to 814 - Paul Fourace
9. Frankish Kingdoms 814 – 898 – The West
10. Germany In The Early Middle Ages – Reuter
11. Judith Herrin – Carolingian Innovation From The Formation Of Christendom
12. Lateran Synod 769
13. Populus Francorum
14. Regnum and Regna
15. Scandinavians and Others
16. The Emergence Of The East Franksih Kingdom 800 – 43
17. The end of Carolingian Expansion - Timothy Reuter
18. Varities of Viking Impact - Seine

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