. 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:. ed in the following year, leaving as heirs to his kingdom twosons still under age. Hence the ambitious King Ludwig the Youngerreadily conceived the idea of winning the Austrasian crown for himself andso uniting all the dominions of Charlemagne once more under his own scep-tre. The same idea suggested itself to many a West Frankish noble. Theinfluential abbot Gauzlin of St. Germains and Count Conrad of Paris triedto convince
. 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:. ed in the following year, leaving as heirs to his kingdom twosons still under age. Hence the ambitious King Ludwig the Youngerreadily conceived the idea of winning the Austrasian crown for himself andso uniting all the dominions of Charlemagne once more under his own scep-tre. The same idea suggested itself to many a West Frankish noble. Theinfluential abbot Gauzlin of St. Germains and Count Conrad of Paris triedto convince their fellow-countrymen that Ludwig the Younger, whose prow-ess in the battle of Andernach was still held in the liveliest remembrance,ought to be chosen king. A large number of nobles, having arrived incouncil at a resolution to this effect, sent messengers to invite Ludwig totake possession of the country. He replied by entering it at the head of anarmy, but failed to find favour in the eyes of the people because he allowedhis soldiers to pillage as ruthlessly as the Normans had done. There wasanother party among the Austrasian nobles, who desired to preserve the. A West Frank THE BIKTH OF GERMAN NATIONALITY 585 [879^82 ] crown to the sons of Louis the Stammerer. They therefore offered Ludwigthe Younger compensation in the form of the western part of Lorraine,which had fallen to the share of the western kingdom in the Treaty of acquiesced in this arrangement, and the crown was conferred on Louisand Carloman, the sons of Louis the Stammerer, conjointly. But the miseryof the western kingdom was only just beginning. Boson, the ambitiouscount of Provence, son-in-law of the emperor Ludwig II, rebelled andexalted his county into an independent kingdom, and an important part ofthe monarchy was thus lost. And, to add evil to evil, the Normans renewedtheir pirate incursions. After the conclusion of the treaty Ludwig the Younger proceeded toBavaria, to secure the heritag
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