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Charles III (
September 17,
879 –
October 7,
929), called
the Simple or
the Straightforward (from the
contemporary Latin:
Karolus Simplex), was a member of the
Carolingian dynasty who ruled as
King of France (or
Western Francia) from 893 to 922/923.
He was the posthumous son of King
Louis the Stammerer and his third wife
Adelaide of Paris. Charles first married
Frederonne who died in 917 and then
Eadgifu, the daughter of
Edward the Elder of
England, on
October 7,
919.
As a child, Charles was prevented from succeeding to the throne at the time of the death in 884 of his half-brother
Carloman or at the time of the deposition of the
Holy Roman Emperor, his uncle
Charles the Fat, in 887. Instead,
Odo, Count of Paris, succeeded Charles the Fat. Nonetheless, Charles was crowned by some nobles in 893. Charles became sole king at the age of nineteen upon the death of Odo in 898.
In 911 Charles gave the lower Seine area, eventually known as
Normandy, as a
fief to the
Norse leader
Rollo in the
Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, thereby ending the series of Viking raids into France.
In 922 some of the barons (including
Herbert II of Vermandois) revolted and crowned
Robert I, brother of Odo, king. In 923, at the battle of
Soissons, King Robert was killed, but Charles was also defeated.
Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy was elected king, and Charles was imprisoned.
Charles died on
October 7,
929, in prison at
Péronne (
Somme, France) and was buried there at the abbey of
St. Fursy. His son with Eadgifu would eventually be crowned in 936 as
Louis IV of France and his daughter Gisela was married in 911 to
Rollo of Normandy.
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