Editing Charles the Simple (section)

== King of Lotharingia ==
Also in 911, [[Louis the Child]], the last Carolingian king of [[East Francia]] died, and nobles of [[Lotharingia]], who had been loyal to him, under the leadership of [[Reginar, Duke of Lorraine]] declared Charles their new king, breaking from East Francia which had elected non-Carolingian [[Conrad I of Germany|Conrad I]] as the new king.<ref name="Parisse" /> Charles had tried to win Lotharingian support for years, for instance, by marrying in April 907 a Lotharingian woman named [[Frederuna]],<ref name="Bradbury 2007">{{cite book |last=Bradbury |first=J. |title=The Capetians: Kings of France 987–1328 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8264-2491-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hG6vAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |page=34}}</ref> and in 909 his niece [[Cunigunda of France|Cunigunda]] married [[Wigeric of Lotharingia]]. Charles defended Lotharingia against two attacks by Conrad I.<ref>''Cambridge Medieval History'', Vol. III – Germany and the Western Empire, eds. H. M. Gwatking; J. P. Whitney, et al.  (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922), p. 74</ref> In 925, Lotharingia was once again seized by East Francia.<ref>{{cite journal |last=MacLean |first=Simon |date=2013 |title=Shadow Kingdom: Lotharingia and the Frankish World, C.850–C.1050 |url=https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/4176/HistCompPreprint.pdf;sequence=1 |journal= History Compass |volume= 11|issue= 6|pages= 443–457|doi=10.1111/hic3.12049 |hdl=10023/4176 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>