In the year 814 when Charlemagne has just died his son, Louis (or Lodewig), succeeded to him. He was married with Hermengarde de Hesbaye and had three sons: Lothair, Louis and Pippin.
Louis, was also called Debonaire or the Pious, deserved very wel5B4l his nickname. Indeed, he was very pious and had obliged his sisters to enter to the convent. This leaning for decency, wisdom, the abstinence did not prevent him from making cruel acts.
Louis distributed territories of his kingdom (the year 817) in the Ordinatio Imperii, ensuring the indivisibility of the empire. According to terms' of Ordinatio, no division was possible and his elder son, Lothair, were to succeed to him.
When his wife, Hermengarde died, Louis, fell in love with a young girl called Judith. She was the Bavarian count of Welf daughter. Judith was quite a beauty and was not long in becoming Louis wife.
Their son, Charles is born in the year 823 (the chronicles of the times say that he would not be the son of Louis but Judith's lover son). The king, who loved Judith was unaware of this love affair.
The birth of this child destroyed the building of Ordinatio Imperii.
Judith was ambitious and dreamed of a royal crown for her son and did not hesitate to try to draw aside her sons-in-law of the succession. She encouraged Louis to reduce the territories of his elder sons in order to form an additional state whose Charles would become the king.
Obviously, the princes did not appreciate and rebelled against their father and their mother-in-law. In order to be able to interfere with this rebellion, Judith chose Lothair to become the little Charles godfather, he accepted and was obliged to defen5B4d him of his enemies.
When Louis the Debonaire announced his decision to constitute a kingdom for Charles, his three others wire rebelled again. Judith was locked up in a convent and Louis, lost his imperial crown and was obliged to respect the Ordinatio.
A reversal of the situation authorized Judith to return near her husband and, still ambitious, encouraged Louis to reconsider the distributions division of his territories: a division in four equal shares.
Lothair, Louis and Pippin fought again against Judith and, once more, she was thrown to the convent.
In the year 835, Louis recovered his title of emperor and Judith encouraged him again, without failing, to re-examine the distribution of the territories. Tough, crafty one, she managed to overcome the party of Hermengarde's sons and obtained that Louis works on the constitution of Charles future kingdom.
When Pippin died, Lothair to thought that Ordinatio would be executed, but he was wrong.
Louis the Debonaire divided the territories in three innovative kingdoms whose borders went from north to the south. Charles was a territory going from Antwerp to Marseilles, this territory was 70% of current France.
Louis the Debonaire, died in the year 840 and they will never see the completion of their work. Indeed, Verdun agreement was signed in august in the year 843, a few months after Judith's death.
Charles became the king of Francie Occide5B4ntale. Thus was born France and it is thanks to a woman. If Louis the Debonaire had not married Judith, Ordinatio would have been respected and the distribution of the empire would have been different.
We now will leave Carolingians.Their race degenerated quickly and, instead of prestigious names, they received names without any prestige. People scorned them and ten years before the famous year 1000, elected a new king: Hugues Capet, Duke of France and count of Paris.
We will speak about his descent: since the Xth century until XIXth century and "La Commune" when king Louis-Philippe lost his crown, all the kings of France were heirs of Hugues Capet sons.
During the reigns of his descendants, the women will take a more important place. They will build and destruct alliances, kings, ensure the regency of the kingdom or reign on France through their sons, who were too young to reign or too weak or cowards, as Catherine Medici did. The infidelity of another queen encouraged the lawyers to use the salic law, preventing the women from reigning on France. Some of them were even dangerous. But all these women acted by love.
For the love of a man, the love of their children, the love of France or simply the love of the power.
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