Bust of Lothair, c. 1140, from the Musée Saint Rémi at Reims
King of West Francia
Reign
10 September 954 – 2 March 986
Coronation
12 November 954
Predecessor
Louis IV
Successor
Louis V
Born
941 Laon
Died
2 March 986 (aged 44) Laon
Burial
Abbey of Saint-Remi, Reims
Spouse
Emma of Italy (m. 965)
Issue
Louis V of France Arnulf, Archbishop of Reims (illegitimate)
House
Carolingian
Father
Louis IV of France
Mother
Gerberga of Saxony
Lothair (French: Lothaire; Latin: Lothārius; 941 – 2 March 986), sometimes called Lothair II,[a]III[b] or IV,[c] was the penultimate Carolingian king of West Francia, reigning from 10 September 954 until his death in 986.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
Lothair (French: Lothaire; Latin: Lothārius; 941 – 2 March 986), sometimes called Lothair II, III or IV, was the penultimate Carolingian king of West Francia...
Louis the Do-Nothing (French: Louis le Fainéant), was a king of West Francia from 979 (co-reigning first with his father Lothair until 986) to his early...
Archbishop of Cologne; and finally, Gerberga of Saxony, Queen ofFrance. Gerberga was the wife of Louis IV, King ofFrance and mother ofLothairofFrance and...
Lothair (Latin: Lotharius; German: Lothar; French: Lothaire) is a Germanic given name, derived from the older form Clotaire (Chlotharius). Lothair I (795–855)...
Lothair I (Dutch and Medieval Latin: Lotharius; German: Lothar; French: Lothaire; Italian: Lotario; 795 – 29 September 855) was a 9th-century Carolingian...
Lothair II (926/8 – 22 November 950), often Lothairof Arles, was the King of Italy from 947 to his death. He was of the noble Frankish lineage of the...
(898–922) Robert I ofFrance (922–923) Rudolph ofFrance (923–936) Louis IV ofFrance (936–954) LothairofFrance (954–986) Louis V ofFrance (986–987) McKitterick...
the kingdom ofFrance. Charles the Bald was also crowned King of Lotharingia after the death ofLothair II in 869, but in the Treaty of Meerssen (870)...
supported the accession of Louis and Gerberga's son, LothairofFrance. Hugh was the son of King Robert I ofFrance and Béatrice of Vermandois. He was born...
the Treaty of Verdun, the empire was divided between Louis' three sons, with East Francia going to Louis the German, Middle Francia to Lothair I, and West...
during the minority of her son Lothair in 954–959. She was a member of the Ottonian dynasty. Her first husband was Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. Her second...
in 977 Otto II enfeoffed Charles, the exiled younger brother of King LothairofFrance. Lower and Upper Lorraine were once again briefly reunited under...
Gerard, Count of Metz, of the Matfridings, enemies of his family since the reign of Zwentibold. The Reginarids supported LothairofFrance against Otto...
administrator of the Robertian estates until he came of age. Bruno also held guardianship over his nephew King LothairofFrance, son of his sister Gerberga...
Lothair Crystal (also known as the Lothar Crystal or the Susanna Crystal) is an engraved gem from Lotharingia in northwest Europe, showing scenes of the...
Lorraine (France), Luxembourg, Saarland (Germany), Netherlands, most of Belgium, and Germany west of the Rhine. It was named after King Lothair II, who...
the kings LothairofFrance and Otto the Great and had to submit. Robert married Adelais Werra of Burgundy (914–967), daughter of Giselbert of Burgundy...
Emma of Italy (c. 948 – after 987) was Queen of Western Francia as the wife of King Lothair, whom she married in 965. Their son, Louis V, was the last...
young King LothairofFrance in the expedition at Aquitaine and the Siege [fr] of Poitiers, during the dynastic struggles of the Kingdom of West Francia...
The Treaty of Verdun (French: Traité de Verdun), agreed in August 843, divided the Frankish Empire into three kingdoms between Lothair I, Louis II and...
France carrying the insignia of the Empire. In the following October, to take revenge, Otto II assembled an army of 60,000 men and invaded Lothair's domains...
and indecorous name, although well-known by everyone". In 982, King LothairofFrance donated land to the same monastery: pervenit usque in sumitatem ipsius...
crowned on 19 June 936, following a brief interregnum after the death of Rudolph. Lothair was crowned on 12 November 954. Louis V was crowned on 8 June 979...
(in 832, after the rising of Pepin I of Aquitaine) were unsuccessful. The numerous reconciliations with the rebellious Lothair and Pepin, as well as their...
about 948. Emma became Queen of West Francia by marrying King LothairofFrance. The calendar of saints states that Lothair was poisoned on 22 November...
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (French: régions, singular région [ʁeʒjɔ̃]), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France...
Global Information