Charles I, (Charles Le Chauve, or Charles the Bald) was a King of France. He was born in 823 and died in 877. He was son of Louis le Debonnaire. After his father's death in 840 he fought with his half-brother Lothaire for the empire of the Franks, and finally acquired by the Treaty of Verdun in 843 all those territories between the ocean on the one part, and the Meuse, the Scheldt, the Saone, the Rhone, and the Mediterranean, on the other. But he lost Southern Aquitaine to his nephew Pepin, and had to divide Lorraine with his brother Louis the German. In 875 he was crowned emperor by PopeJohn VIII. Research Charles the Bald
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