Died June 4, 863 AD Name Charles Charles | Parents Pepin I of Aquitaine | |
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Role Pepin I of Aquitaine's son Grandparents Louis the Pious, Ermengarde of Hesbaye Great-grandparents Charlemagne, Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Ingerman of Hesbaye Similar People Louis the Pious, Carloman II, Louis the Stammerer, Charles the Simple, Charles the Bald | ||
Charles (825/830 – 4 June 863) was the second son of Pepin I of Aquitaine and Engelberga.
He lived at the court of his uncle Lothair until 848, when, hearing of the deposition of his brother, he set out in March 849 with a band of followers to claim the Aquitainian realm. He was captured by Vivian, count of Maine at the Loire and sent to Charles the Bald. He was put in the monastery of Corbie as either a monk or a deacon.
He escaped in 854 to recruit an army to fight for his brother. He had little success and fled to the court of Louis the German, who made him the archbishop of Mainz and archchancellor on 8 March 856. He made a respectable bishop and died on 4 June 863 and was buried in St. Alban's Abbey, Mainz.
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