{"slug": "louis-the-blind", "label": "Louis the Blind", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_the_Blind", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310435", "qid": "Q310435", "description": "Holy Roman Emperor from 901 to 905", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [880, 1327], "span_label": ["880 CE", "1327 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "berengar-i-of-italy", "label": "Berengar I of Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "provence", "label": "Provence", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "king-of-italy", "label": "King of Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "lower-burgundy", "label": "Lower Burgundy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "bavaria", "label": "Bavaria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-italy-holy-roman-empire", "label": "Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pavia", "label": "Pavia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "february", "label": "February", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louis-the-child", "label": "Louis the Child", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 880, "year_label": "880 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Louis the Blind, Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor (d. 928)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372561483#Births", "title": "880", "revid": 1372561483, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 889, "year_label": "889 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Arnulf of Carinthia has his illegitimate son Zwentibold recognized, as heir of the East Frankish Kingdom. He supports the claim of Louis the Blind as king of Provence, after receiving a personal appeal from Louis's mother, Ermengard, who comes to see Arnulf at Forchheim (Northern Bavaria). Arnulf grants the town of Osnabrück trade and coinage privileges.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129924#Europe", "title": "889", "revid": 1341129924, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 890, "year_label": "890 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Frankish nobles, who have ruled Provence in anarchy (since 887), declare Louis the Blind (a son of the late usurper King Boso) ruler of Lower Burgundy, at an assembly at Valence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373061013#Europe", "title": "890", "revid": 1373061013, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – Following Magyars raids in Lombardy, king Louis III (\"the Blind\") is called to Italy by the grandees. He takes Pavia, forcing king Berengar I to flee, and replaces him as King of Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Europe", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 901, "year_label": "901 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February", "text": "February – King Louis III (the Blind) is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Benedict IV at Rome. His rival Berengar I seeks refuge in Bavaria at the court of King Louis IV (the Child).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345013381#Europe", "title": "901", "revid": 1345013381, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 902, "year_label": "902 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Adalbert II, margrave of Tuscany, revolts against Emperor Louis III (\"the Blind\"). He helps the deposed King Berengar I to recover the Kingdom of Italy. Louis III is forced to abdicate the Lombard throne and flees to Provence, compelled to promise never to return to Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130244#Europe", "title": "902", "revid": 1341130244, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 905, "year_label": "905 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, launches another attempt to invade Italy. A Frankish expeditionary force, led by Adalbert I of Ivrea, captures Pavia, and Berengar I retires to Verona.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350019271#Europe", "title": "905", "revid": 1350019271, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 928, "year_label": "928 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – Louis the Blind, Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364916804#Deaths", "title": "928", "revid": 1364916804, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 928, "year_label": "928 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – Louis III (the Blind), former king of Provence (Lower Burgundy), dies at Arles after a 27-year reign (of which 23 are sightless). He is succeeded by his brother-in-law Hugh I who is King of Italy. With the approval of his kinsman Rudolph I, Hugh strips Louis's son and heir, Charles Constantine, of his inheritance and proclaims himself as ruler of Provence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364916804#Europe", "title": "928", "revid": 1364916804, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1327, "year_label": "1327 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31 – In Milan, Louis IV (\"Ludwig the Bavarian\"), King of the Romans, becomes the first King of Italy since 1313, when Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor died. Louis is enthroned as King Ludovico IV, the third king with that name (Louis the Blind had ruled as Ludovico III from 900 to 905).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367267747#April_–_June", "title": "1327", "revid": 1367267747, "section": "Events › April – June"}}]}