 By the 870s, according to the "Annales Bertiniani", at the time being composed by Archbishop Hincmar of Reims, Carloman's mother, Emma, was encouraging her husband to favour Carloman over his brothers.This is the first recorded involvement of Emma in politics, and it may relate to Louis's illness during 869–70.On the other hand, historian Ernst Dümmler thought Carloman must have been a "mamma's boy" ("Muttersöhnchen").