Individual Details

He was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt, when his elder brothers were already adults and had been assigned their own regna, or subkingdoms, by their father. The death of the emperor in 840 led to the outbreak of war between his sons. Charles allied himself with his brother Louis the German to resist the pretensions of the new emperor Lothair I, and the two allies defeated Lothair at the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841. In the following year, the two brothers confirmed their alliance by the celebrated Oaths of Strasbourg. The war was brought to an end by the Treaty of Verdun in August 843. The settlement gave Charles the Bald the kingdom of the West Franks, which he had been up till then governing and which practically corresponded with what is now France, as far as the Meuse, the Saône, and the Rhône, with the addition of the Spanish March as far as the Ebro.

Birth	13 Jun 823	Nassau, Deggendorf, Bayern, Germany
Death	6 Oct 877	Brides Les Bains, Bourgogne, France

Spouse	Irmtrud D'ORLEANS (830 - 869)
Child	Louis III "the Stammerer" CAROLINGIAN (843 - 879)
Child	Judith DE BOURGOGNE (844 - 870)
Child	Hersent DE LORRAINE ( - 973)

Father	Louis I "The Pious" CAROLINGIAN HRE (778 - 840)
Mother	Judith VON SWABIA Empress Bavaria (795 - 843)
Sibling	Hildegarde CAROLINGIAN (801 - 841)
Sibling	Alpaide CAROLINGIAN (808 - )
Sibling	Gisela CAROLINGIAN (818 - 874)
Sibling	Rotrude (Louis1) CAROLINGIAN (800 - )