Louis the Child
The last true
Carolingian ruler of the east
Franks,
Louis the Child (
893-
911) was the son of the Emperor
Arnulf of Carinthia. He was born in 893 in Altotting,
Bavaria. During his reign, the country was practically destroyed by
Magyar raids.
Louis' death essentially brought the end of the eastern part of the Frankish Empire. The vacuum left in the Carolingian east was eventually filled by the family of Henry the Fowler, a distant cousin, and heralded the beginning of the Ottonian dynasty.