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Ranking the Carolingians with Battle Royale: French Monarchs

The French History Podcast

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Didn't Die Peacefully?

Louis the Louis was considered to have stayed single for way too long when it took him a few months to remarry. He also did a daughter Judith who gets, who either elopes or gets kidnapped with Baldwin of Flanders. Although of course they then found a great dynasty so you know swings and roundabouts I guess. Yeah he didn't die peacefully. He wasn't the best dad. So there are some negatives you know not to get sidetracked but it is really interesting to see how the Carolingians tried to be so different from the Merovingians in this respect. They had the traditional Germanic values of having either a primary wife and then secondary wives are concubine

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