Louis II of Italy

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Louis II of Italy" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Louis II of Italy
Emperor of the Romans
Louis as shown in a 12th-century manuscript of Johannes Berardi's Chronicon casauriense
Emperor of the Carolingian Empire King of Italy
Reign	844–875 (with Lothar I until 855)
Coronation	15 June 844, Rome
Predecessor	Lothair I
Successor	Charles the Bald
Born	825
Died	12 August 875 (aged 49–50) Ghedi, Italy
Burial	Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
Spouse	Engelberga
Issue	Ermengard, Queen of Provence
Dynasty	Carolingian
Father	Lothair I
Mother	Ermengarde of Tours
Religion	Chalcedonian Christianity

Louis II (825 – 12 August 875), sometimes called the Younger,^[1] was the king of Italy and emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ruled alone.

Louis's usual title was imperator augustus ("august emperor"), but he used imperator Romanorum ("emperor of the Romans") after his conquest of Bari in 871, which led to poor relations with the Eastern Roman Empire. He was called imperator Italiae ("emperor of Italy") in West Francia while the Byzantines called him Basileus Phrangias ("Emperor of Francia").

The chronicler Andreas of Bergamo, who is the main source for Louis's activities in southern Italy, notes that "after his death a great tribulation came to Italy."^[2]