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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 29 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUGHREA , a See also:

market See also:town of Co. See also:Galway, See also:Ireland, pleasantly situated on the N. See also:shore of Lough Rea, 116 m. W. from See also:Dublin by a See also:branch from Attymon Junction on the Midland See also:Great Western railway. Pop. (Igor), 2815. There are slight remains of an See also:Early See also:English Carmelite friary dating c. 1300, which escaped the See also:Dissolution. Loughrea is the seat of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop of Clonfert, and has a See also:cathedral built in 1900-1905. A See also:part of the See also:castle of See also:Richard de See also:Burgh, the founder of the friary, still survives, and there are traces of the town fortifications. In the neighbourhood are a cromlech and two ruined towers, and crannogs, or See also:ancient stockaded islands, have been discovered in the lough. Apart from the surroundings of the lough, the neighbouring See also:country is peculiarly desolate. as her favourite at See also:court.

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Lothair and his See also:brother See also:Pippin joined the rebels, and after See also:Judith had been sent into a See also:convent and See also:Bernard had fled to See also:Spain, an See also:assembly was held at See also:Compiegne, when See also:Louis was practically deposed and Lothair became the real ruler of the See also:Empire. Sympathy was, however, soon aroused for the See also:emperor, who was treated as a prisoner, and a second assembly was held at Nimwegen in See also:October 83o when, with the concurrence of his sons Pippin and Louis, he was restored to See also:power and Judith returned to court. Further trouble between Pippin and his See also:father led to the nominal See also:transfer of See also:Aquitaine from Pippin to his brother See also:Charles in 831. The emperor's plans for a See also:division of his dominions then led to a revolt of his three sons. Louis met them in See also:June 833 near Kolmar, but owing possibly to the See also:influence of See also:Pope See also:Gregory IV., who took part in the negotiations, he found himself deserted by his supporters, and the treachery and falsehood which marked the proceedings gave to the See also:place the name of Lugenfeld, or the " See also:field of lies." Judith, charged with infidelity, was again banished; Louis was sent into the monastery of St Medard at See also:Soissons; and the See also:government of the Empire was assumed by his sons. The emperor was forced to confess his sins, and declare himself unworthy of the See also:throne, but Lothair did not succeed in his efforts to make his father a See also:monk. Sympathy was again See also:felt for Louis, and when the younger Louis had failed to induce Lothair to treat the emperor in a more becoming See also:fashion, he and Pippin took up arms on behalf of their father. The result was that in See also:March 834 Louis was restored to power at St See also:Denis; Judith once more returned to his See also:side and the kingdoms of Louis and Pippin were increased. The struggle with Lothair continued until the autumn, when he submitted to the emperor and was confined to See also:Italy. To make the restoration more See also:complete, a great assembly at See also:Diedenhofen declared the deposition of Louis to have been contrary to See also:law, and a few days later he was publicly restored in the cathedral of See also:Metz. In See also:December 838 Pippin died, and a new arrangement was made by which the Empire, except See also:Bavaria, the See also:kingdom of Louis, was divided between Lothair, now reconciled to his father, and Charles. The emperor was returning from suppressing a revolt on the part of his son Louis, provoked by this disposition, when he died on the loth of June 84o on an See also:island in the See also:Rhine near See also:Ingelheim.

He was buried in the See also:

church of St See also:Arnulf at Metz. Louis was a See also:man of strong See also:frame, who loved the See also:chase, and did not shrink from the hardships of See also:war. He was, however, easily influenced and was unequal to the government of the Empire bequeathed to him by his father. No sustained effort was made to See also:ward off the inroads of the Danes and others, who were constantly attacking the See also:borders of the Empire. Louis, who is also called Le Debonnaire, See also:counts as Louis I., See also:king of See also:France. See Annales Fuldenses; Annales Bertiniani; Thegan, Vita Hludowici; the Vita Hludowici attributed to Astronomus; Ermoldus• Nigellus, In honorem Hludowici imperatoris; See also:Nithard, Historiarum libri, all in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores, Bande i. and ii. (See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826 fol.); E. Miihlbacher, See also:Die Regesten See also:des Kaiserreichs unter den Karolingern (See also:Innsbruck, 1881) ; and Deutsche Geschichte unter den Karolingern (See also:Stuttgart, 1886) ; B. See also:Simson, Jahrbi See also:Cher des frankischen Reichs unter See also:Ludwig dem Frommen (See also:Leipzig, 1874—1876) ; and E. See also:Dummler, Geschichte des ostfrankischen Reiches (Leipzig, 1887-1888). (A.

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