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Charlemagne passes empire on to his son Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious has four sons:
Lothar (oldest, co-emperor)
Louis the German
Pepin
Charles the Bald (Charles II)

Treaty of Verdun, 843:
Lothar gets the central part
Louis the German gets east of Lotharingia
Charles the Bald gets west
Pepin II, son of Pepin I above, gets the short stick--Aquitaine but under Charles' overlordship

Lothar dies, his sons divvy it up some more
Louis II becomes emperor, gets Italy
Charles gets Provence, later divided between his brothers
Lother II gets the rest, Lotharingia named after him

Charles III (the Fat), son of Louis the German, becomes emperor, rules over Italy, Francia (Charles II/Bald's line dies out), Alemannia
His nephew Arnulf inherits East Francia
Arnulf's son Louis the Child (Louis IV, or III) inherits East Francia

Charles the Bald's son is Louis the Stammerer (Louis II of France, Louis the Pious being Louis I)

Charles the Simple, a Carolingian, gets Lotharingia and Western Francia
defeats Rollo

Conrad I

...No way am I going to remember all this

Anyway, then comes Henry the Fowler
First of the Ottonian dynasty
Refuses to be crowned by the Archbishop of Mainz
gets his support from the nobles
Magyar threat

Henry's son Otto the Great
defeats the Magyars

Wenceslaus I of Bohemia the one in the carol
succeeded (murdered?) by younger brother Boleslav I
Bohemia pays tribute to east Francia
bishopric of Prague established
962 Otto crowned by Pope John XII
start of HRE
German kings travel to Rome to be crowned
Otto insists that emperors get to decide the election of the pope
conflicts with pope/Romans/Italians