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 Saône and in the east by the Rhine. The treaty was not governed by geographical factors but was an attempt to satisfy the claims of each brother for a share in the Carolingian family estates, many of which were in the fertile lands of the middle kingdom, Lotharingia. Lotharingia soon lost its own identity and became a battleground for the embryonic kingdoms of France and Germany.
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Verdun: World War I and beyond.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/16/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Franco-Prussian War. Peace treaty cedes Alsace and the Moselle...September 1914: German attacks on Verdun repulsed, but nearby St. Mihiel...Germans will hold it until 1918. Verdun evacuated of all civilians...railways to mass troops near Verdun. Feb. 16: Bombardment of...
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European Monetary Integration and Domestic Politics.(Review)
Magazine article from: West European Politics; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, Verdun finds much more similarity than...terms of monetary policy autonomy. Verdun posits that it is this acceptance...groups and countries. The problem, Verdun suggests, is that such acceptance...
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Stormy History Follows Event
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/10/1994; ; 401 words
; ...so taken aback that the fighting stopped and a peace treaty was signed. Emperor Louis, Charlemagne's son, was...followed over the throne of his empire. The result was the Treaty of Verdun, which created the areas known today as France, Germany...
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Letters from readers.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/20/1996; 700+ words
; ...Saracen invasion, Dagobert, the Merovingians' end, and the Carolingians' (i.e. Charlemagne and his three sons) Treaty of Verdun (843 A.D.) came to mind with Charles II ("The Bald") generally regarded as the beginning of French independence...
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Le Goff, Jacques: The Birth of Europe.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...latter of which "afforded a glimpse of the possibility of European legal unity" (33). Le Goff also views the Treaties of Verdun (843) and Minden (844) as the origins of a France/Germany axis so integral to the stability of the European...
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The European Union fifty years after the treaties of Rome.
Magazine article from: Behind the Headlines; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; INTRODUCTION, Amy Verdun On 25 March 2007 the European...to the day--of the two treaties that gave it birth. On that...Economic Community (EEC) Treaty and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) Treaty, together referred to as the Treaties of Rome, were signed by...of these six ...
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Taking the Measure of Darkness: The Holocaust; A History
Newspaper article from: Forward; 9/27/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...many of the smaller states. It places the Treaty of Versailles in context and follows the Battle of Verdun as a transformation in the history of warfare...indeed I have found a similar emphasis on Verdun as a precursor of the Holocaust only in...
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Kohl mourns closest European ally
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/9/1996; ; 678 words
; ...memorial to the First World War battle of Verdun. Mr Kohl did not forget: during the campaign to ratify the Maastricht treaty he made an appearance on French television...created the climate for the Maastricht treaty, and by establishing the Franco...
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One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...dreadful setback of Charles V before its walls is not here made clear: by the treaty of Chambord the German princes agreed to the French occupation of Metz along with Toul, Verdun, and Cambrai in the status of a protectorate that would only become an...
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EUROPE REMEMBERS WORLD WAR I.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/8/1998; 700+ words
; ...Commemoration ceremonies in Verdun will come less than two months...door,'' Jeanneney said. Verdun's sobering mausoleum and sprawling...happened.'' The Battle of Verdun, a fruitless 300-day attempt...Reparations under the Versailles Treaty further gutted Germany's economy...
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Treaty of Verdun
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Treaty of Verdun the partition of Charlemagne's empire among three sons of Louis I , emperor of the West. It was concluded in 843 at Verdun on the Meuse or, possibly, Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, Soâne-et-Loire dept...
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Verdun, Treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Verdun, Treaty of (843) The peace made between the Frankish...negotiations then culminated in the meeting in Verdun where the empire was divided into three...ne and in the east by the Rhine. The treaty was not governed by geographical factors...
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Treaty of Mersen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Treaty of Mersen 870, redivision of the Carolingian...Meersen ), now in the Netherlands. The treaty superseded the tripartite division of the empire in 843 (see Verdun, Treaty of ). It divided the kingdom of Lotharingia...
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Lotharingia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of the Carolingian empire (see Verdun, Treaty of ). It comprised, roughly...bishoprics of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, and the archbishopric of Trier...cent. onward. From the Treaty of Verdun until the present time the territories...
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Alsace
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Upper Germany (see Gaul ). It fell to the Alemanni (5th cent.) and to the Franks (496). The Treaty of Verdun (843; see Verdun, Treaty of ) included it in Lotharingia; the Treaty of Mersen (870) put it in the kingdom of the East Franks...
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