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1 day ago · Her father Rudolf II of Burgundy was briefly king of Italy prior to being deposed and she herself had briefly been queen of Italy until her husband Lothair II of Italy's death. Berengar II imprisoned her when she refused to marry his son, Adalbert of Italy.
2 days ago · Charlemagne returned to Francia to greet his newborn twin sons, Louis and Lothair, who were born while he was in Spain; [119] Lothair died in infancy. [120] Again, Saxons had seized on the king's absence to raid.
2 days ago · He had enough influence to make Lothair's predecessor King Louis IV. Hugh the Great died in 956, when Hugh Capet was 15. The teen inherited his father's lands and power and was named Duke of the Franks.
5 days ago · France - Partition, Carolingian, Empire: After the death of Louis the Pious (840), his surviving sons continued their plotting to alter the succession. Louis II (the German) and Charles II (the Bald) affirmed their alliance against Lothar I with the Oath of Strasbourg (842).
3 days ago · Supported by powerful allies, including the Holy Roman Emperor Lothair III, Canute was a strong candidate for the Danish throne. Tensions erupted in 1131 when Canute Lavard was murdered by Magnus the Strong, King Niels' son, in the Haraldsted Forest.
2 days ago · Albert II retained Saxe-Wittenberg, and became the head of the Elder Saxon Line; Albert III, Eric I and John II ruled together in Saxe-Lauenburg, becoming the founders of the Younger Saxon Line. 1296–1298
4 days ago · July 1533, 26-31. 26 July. R. O. 894. [Cromwell] to Sir Thos. Audeley, Lord Chancellor. The King has lately granted to his servant Stephen Vaughan an annuity of 20 l. to be paid from the feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist last past. As there is owing to him 20 l. for one year's service ending Midsummer last, which he cannot demand of Mr ...
