Louis the German

Louis (also Ludwig or Lewis) the German (806 – 28 August 876), also known as Louis II, is a grandson of Charlemagne and the third son of the succeeding Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye.

He receives the appellation 'Germanicus' shortly after his death in recognition of the fact that the bulk of his territory had been in the former Germania.

Louis II is made the King of Bavaria from 817 following the Emperor Charlemagne's practice of bestowing a local kingdom on a family member who then served as one of his lieutenants and the local governor.

When his father, Louis I (called the pious), partitions the empire toward the end of his reign in 843, he is made King of East Francia, a region that spans the Elbe drainage basin from Jutland southeasterly through the Thuringerwald into modern Bavaria from the Treaty of Verdun in 843 until his death.

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