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LOTHAIR (825-869)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 18 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOTHAIR (825-869)  , See also:king of the See also:district called after him Lotharingia, or See also:Lorraine, was the second son of the See also:emperor See also:Lothair I . On his See also:father's See also:death in 855, he received for his See also:kingdom a district lying See also:west of the See also:Rhine, between the See also:North See also:Sea and the See also:Jura mountains, which was called Regnum Lotharii and See also:early in the loth See also:century became known as Lotharingia or Lorraine . On the death of his See also:brother See also:Charles in 863 he added some lands See also:south of the Jura to this See also:inheritance, but, except for a few feeble expeditions against the Danish pirates, he seems to have done little for its See also:government or its See also:defence . The reign was chiefly occupied by efforts on the See also:part of Lothair to obtain a See also:divorce from his wife Teutberga, a See also:sister of Hucbert, See also:abbot of St See also:Maurice (d . 864); and his relations with his uncles, Charles the Bald and See also:Louis the See also:German, were inflltepceti Iv his See also:desire to obtain their support to this See also:plan . Although quarrels and reconciliations between the three See also:kings followed each other in See also:quick See also:succession, in See also:general it may be said that Louis favoured the divorce, and Charles opposed it, while neither lost sight of the fact that Lothair was without male issue . Lothair, whose desire for the divorce was prompted by his See also:affection for a certain Waldrada, put away Teutberga; but Hucbert took up arms on her behalf, and after she had submitted successfully to the See also:ordeal of See also:water, Lothair was compelled to restore her in 858 . Still pursuing his purpose, he won the support of his brother, the emperor Louis II., by a cession of lands, and obtained the consent of the See also:local See also:clergy to the divorce and to his See also:marriage with Waldrada, which was celebrated in 862 . A See also:synod of Frankish bishops met at See also:Metz in 863 and confirmed this decision, but Teutberga fled to the See also:court of Charles the Bald, and See also:Pope See also:Nicholas I. declared against the decision of the synod . An attack on See also:Rome by the emperor was without result, and in 865 Lothair, convinced that Louis and Charles at their See also:recent See also:meeting had discussed the See also:partition of his kingdom, and threatened with See also:excommunication, again took back his wife . Teutberga, however, either from inclination or compulsion, now expressed her desire for a divorce, and Lothair went to See also:Italy to obtain the assent of the new pope See also:Adrian II . Placing a favourable See also:interpretation upon the words of the pope, he had set out on the return 'See also:journey, when he was seized with See also:fever and died at See also:Piacenza on the 8th of See also:August 869 .

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left, by Waldrada, a son See also:Hugo who was declared illegitimate, and his kingdom was divided between Charles the Bald and Louis the German . See See also:Hincmar, " Opusculum de divortio Lotharii regis et Tetbergae reginae," in Cursus completus patrologiae, tome cxxv., edited by J . P . See also:Migne (See also:Paris, 1857—1879); M . Sdralek, Hinkmars von Rheims Kanonistisches Gutachten fiber See also:die Ehescheidung See also:des Konigs Lothar II . (See also:Freiburg, 1881) ; E . Diimmler, Geschichte des ostfrankischen Reiches (See also:Leipzig, 1887–1888) ; and E . Miihlbacher, Die Regenten des Kaiserreichs unter den Karolingern (See also:Innsbruck, 1881) . .See also:LOTHIAN, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF . See also:MARK KERR, 1st See also:earl of Lothian (d . 1609), was the eldest son of Mark Kerr (d . 1584), abbot, and then commendator, of Newbattle, or Newbottle, and was a member of the famous border See also:family of See also:Ker of Cessford .

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dukes of See also:Roxburghe, who are also descended from the Kers of Cessford, have adopted the spelling Ker, while the earls and marquesses of Lothian have taken the See also:form Kerr . Like his father, the abbot of Newbattle, Mark Kerr was an extraordinary See also:lord of session under the Scottish king See also:James VI.; he became Lord Newbattle in 1587 and was created earl of Lothian in 16o6 . He was See also:master of inquests from 1577 to 1606, and he died on the 8th of See also:April 1609, having had, as See also:report says, See also:thirty-one See also:children by his wife, See also:Margaret (d . 1617), daughter of See also:John See also:Maxwell, 4th Lord See also:Herries . His son See also:Robert, the 2nd earl, died without sons in See also:July 1624 . He had, in 1621, obtained a See also:charter from the king enabling his daughter See also:Anne to succeed to his estates provided that she married a member of the family of Ker . Consequently in 1631. she married See also:William Ker, son of Robert, 1st earl of See also:Ancrum (1578–1654), a member of the family of Ker of Ferniehurst, whose father, William Ker, had been killed in 1590 by Robert Ker, afterwards 1st earl of Roxburghe . Robert was in attendance upon Charles I. both before and after he came to the See also:throne, and was created earl of Ancrum in 1633 . He was a writer and a See also:man of culture, and among his See also:friends were the poet See also:Donne and See also:Drummond of Hawthornden . His See also:elder son William was created earl of Lothian in 1631, the See also:year of his marriage with Anne Kerr, and See also:Sir William Kerr of Blackhope, a brother of the 2nd earl, who had taken the See also:title of earl of Lothian in 1624, was forbidden to use it (see See also:Correspondence of Sir Robert Ker, earl of Ancrum, and his son William, thud earl of Lothian, 1875) .

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