Charles the Bald [SEP] position held
Charles the Bald
Charles the Bald (13 June 823 – 6 October 877) was the king of West Francia (843–877), king of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis the Pious, Charles succeeded, by the Treaty of Verdun (843), in acquiring the western third of the Carolingian Empire. He was a grandson of Charlemagne and the youngest son of Louis the Pious by his second wife,
-in-law, to Aix-en-Provence. In 843, he married Bertha, daughter of Lothair I (May 800 - Sep 855) and Ermengarde of Tours (800-851). Hugh II (780-837) was Bertha's grandfather.
In 855, Girart became governor of Provence for Lothair's son Charles, nominal king of Provence. His wife Bertha defended Vienne unsuccessfully against Charles the Bald in 870. Girart, who had perhaps aspired to be the titular ruler of the northern part