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LOUIS V

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 35 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS V . (967-987), See also:king of See also:France, succeeded his See also:father See also:Lothair in See also:March 986 at the See also:age of nineteen, and finally embroiled the Carolingian See also:dynasty with See also:Hugh See also:Capet and See also:Adalberon, See also:archbishop of See also:Reims. From the See also:absence of any important event in his one See also:year's reign the See also:medieval chroniclers designated him by the words " qui nihil fecit," i.e. " le Faineant " or " do-nothing." Louis died in May 987, his See also:mother Emma being accused of having poisoned him. He had married See also:Adelaide, See also:sister of See also:Geoffrey Grisegonelle, See also:count of See also:Anjou, but had no issue. His See also:heir by See also:blood was See also:Charles, See also:duke of See also:Lower See also:Lorraine, son of Louis IV., but the defection of the bishops and the See also:treason of Adalberon (Ascelinus), See also:bishop of See also:Laon, assured the success of Hugh Capet. See F. See also:Lot, See also:Les Derniers Carolingiens (See also:Paris, 1891); and the Recueil See also:des actes de Lothaire et de Louis V, edited by L. Halphen and F. Lot (1908). (R.

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