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The 21 pages that link to Louis the Pious, each with the reason it gives.

• Carolingian EmpireBroader topic: His succession arrangements shaped the conflicts that divided the empire.

• CharlemagneBroader topic: His reign carried the empire into the succession conflicts that preceded its division.

• Carolingian RenaissanceRelated: His reign extended Carolingian educational and religious policies beyond Charlemagne’s lifetime.

• Treaty of VerdunRelated: His contested succession arrangements set his sons against one another.

• East FranciaRelated: His sons’ struggle for the empire culminated in East Francia’s creation.

• Carolingian dynastyRelated: His succession exposed tensions over how the empire should be divided.

• West FranciaRelated: His succession crisis set his sons against one another over the empire.

• Charles the BaldRelated: His father’s succession plans and death triggered the conflict that shaped Charles’s inheritance.

• Louis the GermanNarrower topic: His disputed succession among sons set the stage for Louis’s kingdom.

• Charles the FatRelated: His sons’ inheritance settlements shaped the kingdoms Charles later assembled.

• Frankish EmpireRelated: His contested succession plans intensified conflict among his heirs.

• Frankish kingdomRelated: Succession struggles under his sons accelerated the division of the Carolingian realm.

• Middle FranciaRelated: His contested succession left his sons to divide the empire.

• Lothair IRelated: His contested plans for dividing the empire among his sons triggered Lothair’s succession conflict.

• Carolingian artRelated: His reign continued imperial patronage while changing its political and religious setting.

• Treaty of MeerssenRelated: His contested succession triggered the partitions that shaped the treaty’s political setting.

• Oaths of StrasbourgNarrower topic: His contested succession set his sons against one another.

• Battle of FontenoyRelated: His reign and succession arrangements preceded the struggle that culminated at Fontenoy.

• EinhardRelated: Einhard remained a court figure under the ruler who succeeded Charlemagne.

• Pope John VIIIRelated: His contested succession set in motion the dynastic divisions that framed John’s political choices.

• Louis II of ItalyNarrower topic: Louis II was his grandson, born into the succession disputes that reshaped the empire.