Family of Louis + and Adelaide + of PARIS

Husband:	Louis + (843-879)
Wife:	Adelaide + of PARIS (855-900)
Children:	Ermentrude + (875- )
	Charles III + (879-929)
Marriage	0875

Husband: Louis +

Name:	Louis +
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	Louis the Stammerer //
Father:	Charles II + (823-877)
Mother:	Ermentrude + (830-869)
Birth	1 Nov 0843	France
Occupation		King of France
Title	frm 0866 to 0877 (age 22-34)	King of Aquitaine (as Louis II)
Title	frm 0877 to 0879 (age 33-36)	King of Western Francia
Death	10 Apr 0879 (age 35)	Compiegn, Neustria

Wife: Adelaide + of PARIS

Child 1: Ermentrude +

Name:	Ermentrude +
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Reginar I + (860-916)
Birth	0875	France
Occupation		Princess of France
Title		Princess of France

Child 2: Charles III +

Name:	Charles III +
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	Charles the Simple
Spouse:	Edgiva +* of KENT (896-968)
Birth	0879
Occupation		King of France
Title		King of France
Death	0929 (age 49-50)

Note on Husband: Louis +

Louis the Stammerer (French: Louis le Bègue) (1 November 846 – 10 April 879) was the King of Aquitaine and later King of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. He succeeded his younger brother in Aquitaine in 866 and his father in West Francia in 877, though he was never crowned Emperor. In the French monarchial system, he is considered Louis II.

 

Twice married, he and his first wife, Ansgarde of Burgundy, had two sons: Louis (born in 863) and Carloman (born in 866), both of whom became kings of France, and two daughters: Hildegarde (born in 864) and Gisela (865–884), who married Robert, Count of Troyes.

 

With his second wife, Adelaide of Paris, he had one daughter, Ermentrude (875–914) – who was the mother of Cunigunde, wife of the Count Palatine Wigerich of Bidgau; they were the ancestors of the House of Luxemburg —, and a posthumous son, Charles the Simple, who would become, long after his elder brothers' deaths, king of France.

 

He was crowned on 8 December 877 by Hincmar, archbishop of Rheims, and was crowned a second time in September 878 by Pope John VIII at Troyes while the pope was attending a council there. The pope may even have offered the imperial crown, but it was declined. Louis the Stammerer was said to be physically weak and outlived his father by only two years. He had relatively little impact on politics. He was described "a simple and sweet man, a lover of peace, justice, and religion". In 878, he gave the counties of Barcelona, Girona, and Besalú to Wilfred the Hairy. His final act was to march against the Vikings who were then the scourge of Europe. He fell ill and died on 10 April or 9 April 879 not long after beginning his final campaign. On his death, his realms were divided between his two sons, Carloman and Louis.

Note on Wife: Adelaide + of PARIS

Adélaïde de Paris (or Aélis) (c. 850/853 – 10 November 901) was the second wife of Louis the Stammerer, King of Western Francia, and was the mother of Charles the Simple.

 

[edit] LifeAdelaide was the daughter of the count palatine Adalard of Paris. Her great-grandfather was Bégon, Count of Paris. Her great-grandmother, Alpaïs, wife of Bégon, was the illegitimate daughter of Louis the Pious by an unnamed mistress.

 

Adelaide was chosen by Charles the Bald, King of Western Francia, to marry his son and heir, Louis the Stammerer, despite the fact that Louis had secretly married Ansgarde of Burgundy against the wishes of his father. Although Louis and Ansgarde already had two children, Louis and Carloman, Charles prevailed upon Pope John VIII, to dissolve the union. This accomplished, Charles married his son to Adelaide in February 875.

 

However, the marriage was called into question because of the close blood-kinship of the pair. When on 7 September 878 the pope crowned Louis (who had succeeded his father in the previous year), the pope refused to crown Adelaide.[1]

 

When Louis the Stammerer died in Compiegne on 10 April 879, he had no heirs by Adelaide; she was, however, pregnant, giving birth on 17 September 879, to Charles the Simple.[2] The birth of this child led to a dispute between Adelaide and her deceased husband's repudiated wife, Ansgarde. Ansgarde and her sons accused Adelaide of adultery; Adelaide in turn disputed the right of Ansgarde's sons to inherit. Eventually, Adelaide succeeded in winning the case; but despite this, Ansgarde's sons Louis and Carloman remained kings until their deaths without heirs in 882 and 884 respectively, with the crown then being contested between Odo, Count of Paris and Charles the Fat.

 

Charles the Simple eventually succeeded to his father's throne in 898; his mother assisted in crowning him.

 

Adelais of Paris died in Laon on 10 November 901. She was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Corneille, Compiègne, Picardy, France.[3]

 

[edit] Children1.Ermentrude, born c. 875/878

2.Charles III "the Simple", born 17 September 879, King of France 898–923,