King Louis FRANCE, IV

   Other names for Louis were "d'Outremer", "Transmarinus", FRANCE King and WEST FRANKS King.

   Ancestral File Number: 9GDC-S5. User ID: 4840895726.

   General Notes:

"d'Outremer", "Transmarinus", King of FRANCE, King of WEST FRANKS Reigned
936-954.

Not Married Concubine Louis IV King of France.

BOOKS
Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted ButlerBernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p82: "336V Albert, Count of Vermandois, (Parents not known, F of 351); married Gerberga, daughter of Louis IV, King of France, died in 988."

Europe in the Middle Ages, Robert S Hoyt, 1957, Harcourt Brace & Co, p621: "Genealogical Table II, The Carolingians, Louis IV, King of West Franks 936- 954..."

The Wall Chart of World History, Edward Hull, 1988, Studio Editions, France 879: "Louis IV, Son of Charles III, King of France 936-954..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol VI, p343, Louis IV d'Outremer: "surname meaning From Overseas, Born 921, Died 10 Sep 954 Reims France. King of France from 936 to 954 who spent most of his reign struggling against his powerful vassal Hugh the Great.
"When Louis' father, Charles III The Simple was imprisoned in 923, his mother, Eadgifu, daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Elder, took Louis to England. He was recalled to France in 936 and crownedon June 19 at Laon by Artand, archbishop of Reims, who became Louis' chief supporter against Hugh the Great. Louis proved to be no puppet monarch; he even moved from Paris to Laon to avoid Hugh's influence. After reviving his father's claim toLorraine, Louis invaded that kingdom in 938, responding to an appeal from Giselbert, Duke of Lorraine. When Hugh the Great and Herbert of Vermandois seized Reims and attacked Laon in 940, Louis valiantly defended his city; but because of Louis' interference in Lorraine the German emperor Otto I sent aid to the rebels. Louis appeared to be totally defeated in 941, but he made peace with Otto in November 942 at Vise on the Meuse. Having lost his assistance form Otto, Hugh was forced to submit after Herbert, his chief supporter, died in 943.
"In 945, while intervening in Norman politics, Louis was captured and handed over to Hugh, who imprisoned him for a year. After paying ransom for his freedom, Louis closely allied himself with Otto to retake Reims in 946. The Synod of Ingelheim (948), under Otto's direction, excommunicated Hugh and supported Louis. In 949 Louis again received control of Laon, and Hugh was forced in 951 to make a peace that lasted until Louis' death."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.11 9GDC-S5 King of the FRANKS Born 9 Jan ?1939, EB Born 921, Ancestral File Ver 4.10 GXQQ-JG Born ?10 Sep 921, Mar 25 Apr ?954 <940.

   Marriage Information:

Louis married Queen Gerberge Saxony FRANCE, daughter of King Henry GERMANY, I and Queen Saint Matilda Westphalia GERMANY, on 25 Apr 940-954. (Queen Gerberge Saxony FRANCE was born on 10 Jun 907-915 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Prussia, died on 5 May 984 in Reims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France and was buried in Reims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France.)

   Marriage Information:

Louis also married Concubine France Louis IV.