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LOUIS V

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 35 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS V  . (967-987), king of France, succeeded his
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father Lothair in March 986 at the age of nineteen, and finally embroiled the Carolingian dynasty with
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Hugh
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Capet and
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Adalberon, archbishop of Reims . From the absence of any important event in his one
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year's reign the
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medieval chroniclers designated him by the words " qui nihil fecit," i.e . " le Faineant " or " do-nothing." Louis died in May 987, his
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mother Emma being accused of having poisoned him . He had married Adelaide,
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sister of Geoffrey Grisegonelle, count of
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Anjou, but had no issue . His heir by
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blood was Charles, duke of
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Lower
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Lorraine, son of Louis IV., but the defection of the bishops and the treason of Adalberon (Ascelinus), bishop of
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Laon, assured the success of Hugh Capet . See F . Lot,
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Les Derniers Carolingiens (Paris, 1891); and the Recueil
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des actes de Lothaire et de Louis V, edited by L . Halphen and F . Lot (1908) . (R .

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