Lower Burgundy

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Kingdom of Lower Burgundy
879–933
Common languages
Early Medieval
• Established
879
• Disestablished
933
Richard the Justiciar

The Kingdom of Lower Burgundy, also called Cisjurane Burgundy, was a historical kingdom in what is now southeastern

Arelat
.

The borders of Lower Burgundy were the

Kingdom of Italy
to the east.

History

The

Carolingian. The Kingdom of Provence comprised the ecclesiastical provinces of the archbishops of Arles, Aix, Vienne, Lyon (without Langres), and probably Besançon, as well as the dioceses of Tarentaise, Uzès, and Viviers
.

Boso was an incompetent ruler and by 882 King Carloman of West Francia reintegrated the kingdom into the West Frankish realm. When Carloman died on 12 December 884, the nobles of that kingdom (which included Lower Burgundy), invited Charles the Fat to assume the kingship. Arnulf of Carinthia deposed his uncle Charles in November 887. In 890 Boso's son Louis the Blind was crowned King of Lower Burgundy.

Louis the Blind was invited into Italy by

Berengar of Friuli from gaining control of the Italian peninsula. Louis defeated Berengar and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Benedict IV
. Berengar defeated Louis the next year, forced him to flee Italy and promise to never return. In 905, Louis again invaded Italy but was defeated and blinded for breaking his oath. Louis lost his titles of King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor to Berengar.

Blinded, Louis made

Kingdom of Burgundy
, also known from the 12th century as Kingdom of Arles.

References

See also

  • List of dukes, kings, counts, and margraves of Provence