Louis the Younger
| Louis the Younger | |
|---|---|
| King of Saxony | |
A fourteenth-century depiction of the signing of the Treaty of Fouron. Louis the Younger is in the plain grey costume while Louis the Stammerer is wearing the fleur-de-lis symbolic of the French monarchy.
In the Grandes Chroniques de France |
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| Reign | King of Saxony: 876–882 King of Bavaria: 880-882 |
| Predecessor | Louis II as King of East Francia |
| Successor | Charles III |
| Born | 830 or 835 |
| Died | 20 January 882 Frankfurt, East Francia |
| Spouse | Liutgard of Saxony |
| Issue |
Hugh Louis Bernhard Hildegard |
| House | Carolingian |
| Father | Louis II |
| Mother | Emma of Altdorf |
Louis the Younger (830/835 – 20 January 882), sometimes Louis III, was the second eldest of the three sons of Louis II the German and Emma. He succeeded his father as the King of Saxony on 28 August 876 and his elder brother Carloman as King of Bavaria from 880 to 882. He died in 882 and was succeeded in all his territories, which encompassed most of East Francia, by his younger brother, Charles the Fat, already King of Italy and Emperor.
As a young man, Louis was deployed in military operations against the Abodrites to the east in 858 and 862. In 854, at the invitation of the nobles of Aquitaine opposed to Charles the Bald and Pepin II, and coaxed by his father and his cousin Charles, Archbishop of Mainz, he crossed into Gaul at the head of an army, intent on receiving the Aquitainian crown. He marched as far as Limoges before turning back.
Back home, Louis forged close ties with the nobles of the East Francia and became increasingly independent from his father. He engaged himself to the daughter of Count Adalard and, in 865, he and his brother Charles joined in rebellion against their father. This flirtation with revolt was brief, however, and Louis, Charles, and their father were reconciled later that year, though the elder Louis was forced to make a division of the remainder of his territories between his two sons. Carloman had already been given the subregulus of Bavaria in 864, now Louis received Saxony, Thuringia, and Franconia and Charles Alemannia and Rhaetia.
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