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In which year did the Treaty of Verdun divide the Carolingian empire among Louis the Pious’s three surviving sons?
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- It falls in the middle of the ninth century, a generation after Charlemagne’s death.
- Eight hundred and forty-three.
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843
Why
843. The negotiation took commissioners more than a year, largely spent surveying estates and revenues so that the three shares could be made roughly equal in wealth. That is what tells you it was an inheritance settlement rather than a founding of nations.
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