Editing Louis the German (section)

==Rebellious son==
His involvement in the first civil war against his father's reign was limited, but in the second his elder brothers, [[Lothair I]], then [[King of Italy]], and [[Pepin I of Aquitaine|Pepin I]], [[Duke of Aquitaine]], persuaded him to invade [[Alamannia]] which their father had given to their young half-brother [[Charles the Bald]], by promising to give him the land in the new partition they would make after a victory. In 832 he led an army of [[Slavs]] into Alamannia, but was driven back by his father.{{sfn|Riche|1993|p=154}} Louis the Pious disinherited him, but to no effect; the emperor was soon captured by his own rebellious sons and deposed. Upon his swift reinstatement, however, the emperor Louis made peace with his son Louis and legally restored Bavaria (never actually lost) to him in 836.

Louis was the instigator of the third civil war, which began in 839. A strip of his land having been given to the young half-brother Charles, Louis invaded Alamannia again. This time emperor Louis responded quickly, and soon the younger Louis was forced into the far southeastern corner of his realm, the [[March of Pannonia]]. Peace was then made by force of arms.