Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameLouis IV “D'Outremer” King of France 
Birth10 Sep 921, Laon, Champagne, France
Death10 Sep 954, Abbaye De St. Rbemy, Reims, Champagne
BurialAbbaye De St. Rbemy, Reims, Champagne
FatherCharles III “The Simple” , King of France (879-929)
MotherEgive Of England
Spouses
BirthBET 913 AND 914, Nordhausen, Saxony, Prussia
Death5 May 984, Reims, Marne, Champagne
FatherHeinrich I "The Fowler" , King Of The Germans (876-936)
MotherMatilda , Countess Of Ringelheim (~878-968)
Marriage25 Apr 954
ChildrenCharles (<953-992)
Notes for Louis IV “D'Outremer” King of France
Louis IV [Louis IV “Transmarinus”]
b. 921
d. Sept. 10, 954, Reims, Fr.byname LOUIS D'OUTREMER (LOUIS FROM OVERSEAS), king of France from 936 to 954 who spent most of his reign struggling against his powerful vassal Hugh the Great.
When Louis's father, Charles III the Simple, was imprisoned in 923, his mother, Eadgifu, daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Elder, took Louis to England. He was recalled to France in 936 and crowned on June 19 at Laon by Artand, archbishop of Reims, who became Louis's chief supporter against Hugh the Great. Louis proved not to be the puppet monarch that Hugh had anticipated; he even moved from Paris to Laon to avoid Hugh's influence. When Hugh and Herbert of Vermandois seized Reims and attacked Laon in 940, Louis valiantly defended his city; but because of Louis's earlier interference in Lorraine the German king, Otto I, sent aid to the rebels. Louis appeared to be totally defeated in 941, but he made peace with Otto in November 942 at Vise on the Meuse, and Hugh and he were reconciled after Herbert, Hugh's chief supporter, died in 943.
In 945, while intervening in Norman politics, Louis was captured and handed over to Hugh, who imprisoned him for a year. On his release, Louis closely allied himself with Otto to retake Reims in 946. In 949 Louis again received control of Laon, and Hugh, excommunicated by French and German synods and by the Pope, made a peace in 951 that lasted until Louis's death.
b. 921
d. Sept. 10, 954, Reims, Fr.byname LOUIS D'OUTREMER (LOUIS FROM OVERSEAS), king of France from 936 to 954 who spent most of his reign struggling against his powerful vassal Hugh the Great.
When Louis's father, Charles III the Simple, was imprisoned in 923, his mother, Eadgifu, daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Elder, took Louis to England. He was recalled to France in 936 and crowned on June 19 at Laon by Artand, archbishop of Reims, who became Louis's chief supporter against Hugh the Great. Louis proved not to be the puppet monarch that Hugh had anticipated; he even moved from Paris to Laon to avoid Hugh's influence. When Hugh and Herbert of Vermandois seized Reims and attacked Laon in 940, Louis valiantly defended his city; but because of Louis's earlier interference in Lorraine the German king, Otto I, sent aid to the rebels. Louis appeared to be totally defeated in 941, but he made peace with Otto in November 942 at Vise on the Meuse, and Hugh and he were reconciled after Herbert, Hugh's chief supporter, died in 943.
In 945, while intervening in Norman politics, Louis was captured and handed over to Hugh, who imprisoned him for a year. On his release, Louis closely allied himself with Otto to retake Reims in 946. In 949 Louis again received control of Laon, and Hugh, excommunicated by French and German synods and by the Pope, made a peace in 951 that lasted until Louis's death.