Lothair

In May of that year, the pope, supported by the army of Lothair III, entered Rome, but Lothair III, feeling himself too weak to resist the partisans of Anacletus, retired beyond the Alps, and Innocent sought refuge in Pisa in September 1133.

Lothair's brother Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald refused to acknowledge Lothair's suzerainty and went to war against him.

On the death of his nephew Lothair II in 869, Charles tried to seize Lothair's dominions, but by the Treaty of Mersen (870) was compelled to share them with Louis the German.

Peace was finally concluded between Otto II and Lothair in 980: in return for renouncing his claims on Lorraine, Otto II would recognize Lothair's son Louis V as the rightful heir to the French throne.

Two weeks ago, our Lothair correspondent spelled several names wrong.

A campaign undertaken in the same year against Bohemia ended in defeat, a weak start by Lothair.

A civil war between Frederick's dynasty and Lothair's ended with Frederick's submission in 1134.

After Lothair's death in 1137, Frederick's brother Conrad was elected King as Conrad III.

After occupying Aachen for five days, Lothair returned to France after symbolically disgracing the city.

As St. Peter's Basilica was closed to them, Innocent instead crowned Lothair as emperor in the Lateran on 4 June 1133.

At Jonac, he declared Charles king of Aquitaine and deprived Pepin (he was less harsh with the younger Louis), restoring the whole rest of the empire to Lothair, not yet involved in the civil war.

Conrad failed to make anything of his visit to Italy, and returned in 1130 with nothing to show for it, which assured at least a partial victory for Lothair.

Conrad found little help in Italy and with Honorius’ support, Lothair was able to keep his throne.

Disraeli's last completed novels were Lothair (1870) and Endymion (1880).

Emperor Lothair III approved the gift and made Albert margrave of the Northern March in 1134.

Finally, under Lothair I (840–855), texts of outstanding quality were still being produced.

Having leisure time as he was not in office, he wrote a new novel, Lothair (1870).

He also made the egregious error of releasing Wala and Adalard from their monastic confinements, placing the former in a position of power in the court of Lothair and the latter in a position in his own house.

If he died childless, Lothair would inherit his kingdom.

In 815, he had already given his two eldest sons a share in the government, when he had sent his elder sons Lothair and Pepin to govern Bavaria and Aquitaine respectively, though without the royal titles.