Editing Carolingian Empire (section)

== Divisions of the Empire ==
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| header            = Partitions of the Carolingian Empire
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| caption1          = Division of Charlemagne's empire in three kingdoms ruled by his grandsons
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| caption2          = Carolingian successor state of [[Middle Francia]] was divided into three kingdoms in 855.
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| caption3          = When [[Charles of Provence]] died in 863, his kingdom was partitioned between [[Lotharingia]] and [[Louis II of Italy|Louis the II]]'s Empire.
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| caption4          = Carolingian successor states in 870 after the [[Treaty of Meerssen|Treaty of Mersen]], which divided [[Lotharingia]] between [[East Francia]] and [[West Francia]]
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=== Divisions in 887–888 ===
The Empire of the Carolingians was divided: Arnulf maintained [[Carinthia (duchy)|Carinthia]], Bavaria, Lorraine and modern Germany; Count [[Odo, Count of Paris|Odo]] of Paris was elected King of Western Francia (France), [[Ranulf II of Aquitaine|Ranulf II]] became King of [[Aquitaine]], Italy went to Count [[Berengar of Friuli]], [[Upper Burgundy]] to [[Rudolph I, King of Burgundy|Rudolph I]], and Lower Burgundy to [[Louis the Blind]], the son of Boso of Arles, King of Lower Burgundy and maternal grandson of [[Louis II Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Louis II]]. The other part of Lotharingia became the duchy of Burgundy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=MacLean |first=Simon |title=Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-5218-1945-9}}</ref>