A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . TAMMEBER. 151 tile parties. The urgent cries for aid against the Arabs that cameto the ears of Charles the Bald across the Alps, at last determined himto march toward the south, whither Carloman, too, was already onthe way. Charless dilatory policy and unwarlike weakness, whichcontrasted so unfavorably with the warlike zeal of Emperor Louis IL,had long since disappointed all. Even Pope John VIII. regrettedthat he had laid the duties of emperor on such feeble , he now hastened to Pavia to m
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . TAMMEBER. 151 tile parties. The urgent cries for aid against the Arabs that cameto the ears of Charles the Bald across the Alps, at last determined himto march toward the south, whither Carloman, too, was already onthe way. Charless dilatory policy and unwarlike weakness, whichcontrasted so unfavorably with the warlike zeal of Emperor Louis IL,had long since disappointed all. Even Pope John VIII. regrettedthat he had laid the duties of emperor on such feeble , he now hastened to Pavia to meet Charles, in order to helphim keep Carloman in check in the north, while operations werebeing carried on in the south. But the emperor finally did not ven-ture upon a l)attle, and retreated over the Alps. On the journey hedied at a village in the valley of Arc, on October 6, 877, a year afterhis defeat at Andernach. He was a man Avho owed to mere chancea series of undeserved successes, which, however, he had never knownhow to grasp and turn to account. From early youth he had been. Fig. 35. — Coin of Louis the Stainnierer. Obv.: Monof^^ram for KAROLVS. Legend:HLVDOVVICVS REX. Rev.: Legend: t IN VICO VIOSATO. (Fromde Witt.) the source of quarrels iov his family, and of military disasters for thecountries that were under its sway. He was a weakling, destituteof princely qualities, and the vastness of his pretensions stood inabrupt contrast with his inability to accomplish anything the Bald had believed himself destined to restore theempire of his grandfather. His claims were transmitted to his onlyson, Louis the Stammeivr (Fig. 35). But so utter was the disorgani-zation of the \V^est-Frankish kingdom, and so unreliable were itsnobles, that there was small prospect that Louis would be able to main-tain his power. At this juncture the Roman church took up hiscause, certainl} not without selfish motives. Its object was to acquirel)oth political and reli
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