the ledger of connections
The Connections of Louis the Pious
King of the Franks Every person recorded alongside Louis the Pious in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Louis the Pious in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Charlemagne, Hildegard of Vinzgouw
- Spouses
- Ermengarde of Hesbaye, Judith of Bavaria
- Children
- Lothair I, Louis the German, Charles the Bald, Gisela, Arnulf of Sens, Rotrude, Bertha, Hildegard, princess of Francia, Pepin I of Aquitaine, Alpaïs of Paris, Adelaide of Aquitaine
- Siblings
- Charles the Younger, Pepin of Italy, Pepin the Hunchback, Drogo, Hugh, Lothair, Theodoric, Rotrude, Theodrada, Bertha
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 778 CE to 840 CE.
Medieval era
Mahavira
800 CE – 875 CE
Mathematician
Medieval era
Adi Shankara
788 CE – 820 CE
An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasticism.
Medieval era
Al-Mu'tasim
796 CE – January 5, 842 CE
8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842)
Medieval era
Al-Mutawakkil
822 CE – December 11, 861 CE
10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)
Medieval era
Charlemagne
April 2, 748 CE – January 28, 814 CE
King of the Franks crowned first Holy Roman Emperor, father of Europe
Medieval era
Harun al-Rashid
March 7, 766 CE – March 24, 809 CE
5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
Medieval era
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 750 CE – 846 CE
Mathematician of Baghdad who gave the world algebra and algorithms
Medieval era
Al-Jahiz
775 CE – 868 CE
Arabic writer (776–869)
Medieval era
Fatima al-Fihri
800 CE – 880 CE
Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
Medieval era
Offa of Mercia
c. 800 CE – July 29, 796 CE
King of Mercia
Medieval era
Kenneth MacAlpin
810 CE – February 8, 858 CE
King of the Picts
Medieval era
Egbert of Wessex
771 CE – 839 CE
King of Wessex