As one of Charlemagne’s heirs, Pepin of Italy would have inherited one-third of the kingdom along with Charles the Younger and Louis the Pious. Unfortunately, Pepin of Italy died in 810 ...
His eldest surviving son, Louis the Pious, had a harder time—a harbinger of the even bigger trouble that came in the next generation, with Charlemagne’s grandsons. In “Oathbreakers ...