{"slug": "charles-the-fat", "label": "Charles the Fat", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Fat", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150712", "qid": "Q150712", "description": "Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887)", "entries": 15, "years": 13, "span": [839, 892], "span_label": ["839 CE", "892 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "carloman-of-bavaria", "label": "Carloman of Bavaria", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "east-francia", "label": "East Francia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "louis-the-german", "label": "Louis the German", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "west-francia", "label": "West Francia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "odo-of-france", "label": "Odo of France", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "francia", "label": "Francia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "frankfurt", "label": "Frankfurt", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-john-viii", "label": "Pope John VIII", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "papal-states", "label": "Papal States", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 839, "year_label": "839 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Charles the Fat, Frankish emperor (d. 888)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073737#Births", "title": "839", "revid": 1267073737, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 865, "year_label": "865 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. Carloman receives Bavaria (with more lands along the Inn River). He gives Saxony to Louis the Younger (with Franconia, and Thuringia) and Swabia (with Raetia) to Charles the Fat. Louis arranges marriages into the local aristocracy, for his sons to hold important territories along the frontiers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129586#Europe", "title": "865", "revid": 1341129586, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 870, "year_label": "870 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Bernard, illegitimate son of Charles the Fat (d. 891)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129562#Births", "title": "870", "revid": 1341129562, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 879, "year_label": "879 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Charles the Fat becomes ruler of the Kingdom of Italy, after the abdication of his brother Carloman of Bavaria, who has been incapacitated by a stroke.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348046041#Europe", "title": "879", "revid": 1348046041, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 881, "year_label": "881 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 12", "text": "February 12 – King Charles the Fat, the third son of the late Louis the German, is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John VIII at Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129955#Europe", "title": "881", "revid": 1341129955, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 882, "year_label": "882 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Siege of Asselt: Charles the Fat besieges a Viking camp, who have plundered along the Meuse, the Rhine and the Moselle. He defeats their leader Godfrid, and grants him West Frisia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345951089#Europe", "title": "882", "revid": 1345951089, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 882, "year_label": "882 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 20", "text": "January 20 – King Louis the Younger dies in Frankfurt. He leaves his territory to his younger brother, Emperor Charles the Fat, who becomes sole ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345951089#Europe", "title": "882", "revid": 1345951089, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 883, "year_label": "883 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Charles the Fat travels to Nonantola (Northern Italy), where he meets Pope Marinus I. He receives complaints of Guy II of Spoleto, who is the official \"protector\" of Rome, and invades the Papal States. King Charles orders Guy to appear before a tribunal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129939#Europe", "title": "883", "revid": 1341129939, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 884, "year_label": "884 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Carloman II dies after a hunting accident. He is succeeded by his cousin, Emperor Charles the Fat, who for the last time reunites the Frankish Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654158#Europe", "title": "884", "revid": 1366654158, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 885, "year_label": "885 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Emperor Charles the Fat summons a meeting of officials at Lobith (modern Netherlands), and accuses Hugh, an illegitimate son of former king Lothair II, and his vassal Godfrid, Duke of Frisia, of plotting against him. Hugh is blinded, and exiled to the Abbey of Saint Gall (modern Switzerland). Godfrid is killed by a group of Frisian and Saxon nobles, at the connivance of Henry of Franconia. The local count, Gerolf, takes over the West Frisian coastline from the Danish, after the murder.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655145#Europe", "title": "885", "revid": 1366655145, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 886, "year_label": "886 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October", "text": "October – Siege of Paris: Count Odo slips through Viking-controlled territory, to ask the king of West Francia Charles the Fat for support. He returns with a relief force, and reaches safety within the walls. Charles arrives later with a large army, and establishes a camp at Montmartre. After negotiations he promises the Vikings tribute (Danegeld) worth 700 Livres (equivalent to 257kg of silver), and allows them to sail up the River Seine, to over-winter in Burgundy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367666946#Europe", "title": "886", "revid": 1367666946, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 887, "year_label": "887 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – East Frankish magnates revolt against the inept emperor Charles III (the Fat) in an assembly at Frankfurt, and depose him. His nephew Arnulf of Carinthia, the illegitimate son of former king Carloman of Bavaria, is elected ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom. Charles yields his throne without a struggle, and retires to Neidingen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370364971#Europe", "title": "887", "revid": 1370364971, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 888, "year_label": "888 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Emperor Charles III (the Fat) dies at Neidingen, after having suffered repeat bouts of an illness that may have been epilepsy. The Frankish Empire is split again, and falls apart into separate kingdoms. Count Odo, the hero of the Siege of Paris, is elected king of the West Frankish Kingdom, and crowned at Compiègne by Walter, archbishop of Sens. Other Frankish noblemen support the 8-year-old Charles the Simple (the posthumous son of the late king Louis the Stammerer).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347624107#Europe", "title": "AD 888", "revid": 1347624107, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 888, "year_label": "888 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Charles the Fat, Frankish emperor (b. 839)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347624107#Deaths", "title": "AD 888", "revid": 1347624107, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 892, "year_label": "892 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Bernard, illegitimate son of Charles the Fat (or 891)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346093317#Deaths", "title": "892", "revid": 1346093317, "section": "Deaths"}}]}