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CARLOMAN (d. 884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARLOMAN (d. 884) , See also:king of See also:France, was the eldest son of King See also:Louis II., the Stammerer, and became king, together with his See also:brother Louis III., on his See also:father's See also:death in 879. Although some doubts were See also:cast upon their See also:legitimacy, the See also:brothers obtained recognition and in 88o made a See also:division of the See also:kingdom, Carloman receiving See also:Burgundy and the See also:southern See also:part of France. In 882 he became See also:sole king owing to his brother's death, but the kingdom was in a very deplorable See also:condition, and his See also:power was very circumscribed. Carloman met his death while See also:hunting on the 12th of See also:December 884. See E. See also:Lavisse, Histoire de France, tome ii. (See also:Paris, 1903).

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