A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fi«. 30.— Seal of Charles the Bald. Obverse and reverse. From an iuipressiou inNational Archives, Paris. (From de Witt.) feeble Charles the Bald (Figs. 29-31), and to make use of himagainst his brother. These more urgent cares made it relinquishfor the present the enforcement of the theories of II. had already changed his tone toward Charles. John VIII.(872-882) yielded entirely, and left the unruly Carloman to his latter was overpowered by his fathers followers, and was expe
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fi«. 30.— Seal of Charles the Bald. Obverse and reverse. From an iuipressiou inNational Archives, Paris. (From de Witt.) feeble Charles the Bald (Figs. 29-31), and to make use of himagainst his brother. These more urgent cares made it relinquishfor the present the enforcement of the theories of II. had already changed his tone toward Charles. John VIII.(872-882) yielded entirely, and left the unruly Carloman to his latter was overpowered by his fathers followers, and was expelledby a synod from the ecclesiastical order. He was sentenced to death. Fig. 31. Coin of Ciiarles the Bald. Obv.: A[onogram for KAROLVS. Legend;GRATIAI D REX. Rev.: Cross. Legend: t AMBlANIiS CIVIL (From de Witt.) by a secular court. His father commuted the sentence to blindingand life-long imprisonment. But the blind man finally succeeded inescaping from Corbie, to which place he had been brought, and underthe guidance of some trusty friends fled to his uncle, Louis theGerman (Fig. 32j. Meanwhile Emperor Louis II. died in August of 875. He had CJIAULES THE BALD AND THE POPE. 147 named his uncle, Louis the German, to succeed him as ruler of Italyand emperor. This was in accordance with the usage of the Car-olingian family, which had never contemplated a division of Charles the Bald, who probably had a secret understanding withJohn \III., was already on his way toward the south. He arrivedin Home in December, and there received the imperial crown fromthe pope, not by virtue of his own right to it, but as a gift mercifullyvouchsafed him by St. Pet
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