. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. Cathedral at Aachen, where Charlemagne was buried. CHAPTER VI CHARLEMAGNES SUCCESSORS TO THE TREATYOF VERDUN [814-843 ] LOUIS LE DEBONNAIRE, OR PIOUS (814-840 ) Charlemagnes successor, Louis le Debonnaire,^ did not restore vanishedprestige by any of his own. We may praise his goodness, his virtue, thepurity of his morals, the eiforts he made from the beginning of his reign torid the court of that license which Charl
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. Cathedral at Aachen, where Charlemagne was buried. CHAPTER VI CHARLEMAGNES SUCCESSORS TO THE TREATYOF VERDUN [814-843 ] LOUIS LE DEBONNAIRE, OR PIOUS (814-840 ) Charlemagnes successor, Louis le Debonnaire,^ did not restore vanishedprestige by any of his own. We may praise his goodness, his virtue, thepurity of his morals, the eiforts he made from the beginning of his reign torid the court of that license which Charlemagne had allowed to enter, andhis re-establishment of the necessary discipline among the monks and secularclergy; but he had not the firmness required to maintain authority. Fromthe beginning he showed a deference to the pope that Charlemagne wouldhave felt excessive. He allowed Stephen IV (816) to be elected and takepossession of the pontificate without his consent, and was pacified by tardyexcuses. When Stephen came to crown him in France, he permitted him topronounce words which revealed the tendency of the holy see to arrogateto itself the free disposal of the imperial crown: Peter glorifies himself inmaking y
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