This ruler failed in his attempt to set up as heir his only child Bernhard, who was to be crowned by Hadrian III at Worms.
This ruler failed in his attempt to set up as heir his only child Bernhard, who was to be crowned by Hadrian III at Worms. He was succeeded by Arnulf of Carinthia, who deposed him in Germany, and Odo, whom this king had aided by paying ransom to repel a Viking raid led by Sigfred and Rollo during the siege of Paris. The Life of Charlemagne by Notker the Stammerer was dedicated to this man, who early on ruled with his older brothers Carloman and Louis the Younger. But, this son of Louis the German may be best known for briefly reuniting the entire Carolingian empire from 884 to 886. FTP, name this king who may have indeed ►been quite portly.
This ruler failed in his attempt to set up as heir his only child Bernhard, who was to be crowned by Hadrian III at Worms.
Charles the Fat (or Charles III of the Holy Roman Empire)  