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Charles the Bald
This concise yet substantive biography at Wikipedia, liberally adapted and edited from a 1911 Encyclopedia, includes a map illustrating the partitions of Verdun and Meersen in the ninth century.
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Background
Charles the Bald
Bullet lists provide significant points concerning the reign of Charles, at revision-notes.co.uk. .Charles the Bald and the small free farmers, 862-869
Well-referenced article originally published in Military aspects of Scandinavian society in a European perspective, AD 1-1300: papers from an international research seminar at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, 2-4 May 1996, now online at De Re Militari.
Maps and Images
The Treaty of Verdun (843)
Map depicting the division of territory created by the treaty, placed online by Ken Pennington at The Catholic University of America.Coronation of Charles the Bald (875).
Illumination at the Bibliotèque nationale de France. Click the graphic for a larger version of the image.Charles the Bald and messengers.
Illumination at the Bibliotèque nationale de France. Click the graphic for a larger version of the image.
Primary Sources
Charles the Bald: Edict of Pistes, 864
Modern English translation of the edict at Paul Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook.
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