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General information - Footnote(s):	One of a minority of European Kings to have a parent from Britain. [http://www.familyorigins.com/users/b/l/o/David-A-Blocher-WA/FAMO2-0001/d84481.htm#P84481 His page on Blocher] [http://www.ffish.com/family_tree/Descendants_Charlemagne/D1.htm#i3737 His page on Ffish] [http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal02604 His page on Hull] [http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00020063&tree=LEO His Genealogics page] [http://thepeerage.com/p10325.htm#i103243 His page on thePeerage] [http://genealogiequebec.info/testphp/info.php?no=21763 His "Quebec" page] [http://www.royalist.info/execute/biog?person=1495 7] [http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/stoyan/l1/LANG=engl/INDEX=I200728 Stoyan page for him] *[http://gw5.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=tondhwr&lang=en;p=lodewijk;n=van+frankrijk;oc=2 Ton's page for him]	Use "<new note>" between notes. Sources and footnotes may contain any text, and most other Wikitext. Special characters: << an*
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{{showfacts interwikis |lang01=en- English |lang01-page= Louis IV of France |lang02=de- Deutsch |lang02-page= Ludwig IV. (Frankreich) |lang03=fr- Francais |lang03-page= Louis IV de France |lang04=it- Italiano |lang04-page= Luigi IV di Francia |lang05=nl- Nederlands |lang05-page= Lodewijk IV van Frankrijk }} {{Showfacts biography}} {{Showfacts children |children-g1=Lothair (941-986)+Mathilde (943-?)+Hildegarde (944-?)+Carloman (945-bef953)+Louis (948-c954)+Charles (953-993)+Henri (953-953) |long_name=Louis IV |Sex=M |Wikipedia-en=Louis IV of France |Wikipedia-de=Ludwig IV. (Frankreich) |Wikipedia-it=Luigi IV di Francia |Wikipedia-nl=Lodewijk IV van Frankrijk |Wikipedia-fr=Louis IV de France }} '''Louis IV''' from Overseas, King of Western Francia He was only two years old when his father was deposed by the nobles, who set up Robert I in his place. When he was only three years old, Robert died and was replaced by Rudolph, duke of Burgundy. Rudolph's ally, a Carolingian himself, Count Herbert II of Vermandois, took Charles captive by treachery and the young Louis's mother took the boy "over the sea" to the safety of England, hence his nickname. Charles died in 929, but Rudolph ruled on until 936, when Louis was summoned back to France unanimously by the nobles, especially Hugh the Great, who had probably organised his return to prevent Herbert II, or Rudolph's brother Hugh the Black, taking the throne. He was crowned king at Laon by Artald, archbishop of Rheims, on Sunday 19 June 936. The chronicler Flodoard records the events as follows: :"The Bretons, returning from the lands across the sea with the support of King Athelstan, came back to their country. Duke Hugh sent across the sea to summon Louis, son of Charles, to be received as king, and King Athelstan, his uncle, first taking oaths from the legates of the Franks, sent him to the Frankish kingdom with some of his bishops, and other followers. Hugh and the other nobles of the Franks went to meet him and committed themselves to him[;] immediately he disembarked on the sands of Boulogne, as had been agreed on both sides. From there he was conducted by them to Laon, and, endowed with the royal benediction, he was anointed and crowned by the lord Archbishop Artold, in the presence of the chief men of his kingdom, with 20 bishops." Effectively, his sovereignty was limited to the town of Laon and to some places in the north of France, Louis displayed a keenness beyond his years in obtaining the recognition of his authority by his feuding nobles. Nonetheless, his reign was filled with conflict; in particular with Hugh the Great, count of Paris. Louis IV fell from his horse and died September 10, 954, at Rheims, in the Marne, and is interred there at Saint Rémi Basilica. {{Couple ancestors}} {{Notable family}} {{namesake}} {{footer}} [[Category:Kings of Western Francia]] {{usedwp|Louis IV of France}}

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