biography
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Louis I
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known as the Pious
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (778–840)
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| biography:
| King of Aquitaine (781–814) and emperor of the Western or Carolingian empire (814–40), the son of Charlemagne. His reign was marked by reforms of the Church in collaboration with the monk St Benedict of Aniane, and for the raids of the Norsemen in the NW of the empire, especially the Seine and Scheldt basins. After his death the empire disintegrated while his sons fought for supremacy. |
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