Question

Treaty of verdun led to the formation of?

Answer 1

Treaty of Verdun was signed in August 843 and divided the Carolingian empire among the three surviving sons of the emperor Louis I,the Pious. The treaty was the first stage in the dissolution of the Charlemagne empire and the kick off for the the modern countries of western Europe .

After the death of Louis in 840, his sons plotted to modify the succession. Louis II,the German, and Charles II ,the Bald, allied against Lothar I with the Oath of Strasbourg in 842. After several battles, the three brothers finally reached an agreement in the Treaty of Verdun. The empire was divided into three kingdoms from north to south. Francia Orientalis was given to Louis the German, Francia Media to Lothar, and Francia Occidentalis to Charles the Bald.

Answer 2

The correct answer is :

• Formation of present territory of France
• Formation of present territory of Germany
• Formation of current territories of Belgium and Netherlands
• Formation of french regions of Alsace and Lorraine
• Formation of northern territory of current Italy

Summary: The Treaty of Verdun was the treaty that put an end to the Carolingian civil war, where the three sons of Ludovico Pío (grandsons of Charlemagne) fought for power. Charles the Bald, Lotario I and Luis the Germanic signed in the year 843 the Treaty of Verdún, by which they divided and they distributed the Empire of Charlemagne. Charles obtained the western regions of the Empire (present France). Luis took for himself the oriental regions (present territory of Germany). Lothair, on the other hand, chose the imperial capitals: Rome and Aachen, nestled in a narrow strip of land between the domains of his two brothers, which ran from Italy to the North Sea.

Although the Treaty of Verdun forever ended Charlemagne's dreams of a resurrection of the Roman Empire in Western Europe, it laid the foundation of what would be the nation of France to the west, which was the territory that Charles obtained in this treaty and that for the first time instead it receives that denomination instead of the traditional name of Galia, and Germany to the east (the dominions of Luis). The territory of Lotario will be known in the Middle Ages as the Lotharingia, geographical name that includes Flanders (the current Belgium and Holland), the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine, and northern Italy. Please check the map attached.