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LOUIS (893–911)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS (893–911) , surnamed the " See also:Child," See also:king of the See also:Franks, son of the See also:emperor See also:Arnulf, was See also:born at Ottingen, designated by Arnulf as his successor in See also:Germany in 897, and crowned on the 4th of See also:February goo. Although he never received the imperial See also:crown, he is sometimes referred to as the emperor Louis IV. His See also:chief adviser was Hattb I., See also:archbishop of See also:Mainz; and during his reign the See also:kingdom was ravaged by Hungarians and torn with See also:internal strife. He appears to have passed his See also:time in journeys from See also:place to place, and in 910 was the nominal See also:leader of an expedition against the Hungarians which was defeated near See also:Augsburg. Louis, who was the last of the See also:German See also:Carolingians, died in See also:August or See also:September 911 and was buried at See also:Regensburg. See Regino von See also:Priam, " Chronicon," in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores, See also:Band i. (See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826) ; E. See also:Dummler, Geschichte See also:des ostfrankischen Reichs (See also:Leipzig, 1887–1888) ; O. See also:Dietrich, Beitrage zur Geschichte Arnolfs von Karnthen and Ludwigs des Kindes (Berlin, 189o) ; and E. Muhlbacher, See also:Pie Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter den Karolingern (See also:Innsbruck, 1881). (A.

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