Verdun, Treaty of
Verdun, Treaty of ( 843 )The peace made between the Frankish kings Lothar , Louis , and Charles , the grandsons of Charlemagne , who had been fighting a civil war. When their father, Louis the Pious , died in 840 he bequeathed them the united Carolingian empire , but the brothers could not agree on how to divide the inheritance and they fought until 842. Long negotiations then culminated in the meeting in Verdun where the empire was divided into three kingdoms. Charles and Louis received West and East Francia (roughly, present-day France and Germany), while Lothar held the middle kingdom, a long strip of territory stretching from the North Sea over the Alps to Rome and bordered in the west by the rivers Scheldt, Meuse, and...
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