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LOUIS (893–911)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS (893–911)  , surnamed the " Child," king of the Franks, son of the emperor Arnulf, was born at Ottingen, designated by Arnulf as his successor in Germany in 897, and crowned on the 4th of
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February goo . Although he never received the imperial
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crown, he is sometimes referred to as the emperor Louis IV . His chief adviser was Hattb I., archbishop of Mainz; and during his reign the
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kingdom was ravaged by Hungarians and torn with
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internal strife . He appears to have passed his time in journeys from place to place, and in 910 was the nominal leader of an expedition against the Hungarians which was defeated near Augsburg . Louis, who was the last of the German
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Carolingians, died in August or September 911 and was buried at Regensburg . See Regino von Priam, " Chronicon," in the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Scriptores,
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Band i . (Hanover and Berlin, 1826) ; E . Dummler, Geschichte
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des ostfrankischen Reichs (
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Leipzig, 1887–1888) ; O . Dietrich, Beitrage zur Geschichte Arnolfs von Karnthen and Ludwigs des Kindes (Berlin, 189o) ; and E . Muhlbacher,
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Pie Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter den Karolingern (
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Innsbruck, 1881) . (A .

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