=751-768.=--Pepin the Little (714-768); son of Charles Martel.
=768-814.=--Charlemagne, or Charles the Great (742-814); son of Pepin
the Short; Charles crowned Emperor of the West, by Leo III., 800.
Carloman reigned with him three years.
=814-840.=--Louis I., _le Debonnaire_ (778-840); son of Charles the
Great; emperor; dethroned, but restored.
=843-877.=--Charles the Bald (823-877); younger son of Louis le
Debonnaire, king; emperor in 875; poisoned by Zedechias, a Jewish
physician.
=877-879.=--Louis II. (846-879); son of Charles the Bald.
=879-884.=--Louis III. (863-882) and Carloman (?-?); sons of Louis II.;
the former died 882, and Carloman reigned two years alone.
=884-888.=--Charles the Fat (839-888); son of Louis the German; usurps
right of Charles the Simple.
=888-898.=--Count Eudes (?-898); Eudes, or Hugh, count of Paris.
=898-922.=--Charles the Simple (879-929); son of Louis the Stammerer;
Charles III. (or IV.) was deposed, and died in prison in 929; he married
Edgiva, daughter of Edward the Elder, of England, by whom he had a son,
King Louis IV.
=922-936.=--Raoul (Rudolph of Burgundy) (?-?); Rudolph, or Raoul, duke
of Burgundy; elected king, but never acknowledged by the southern
provinces.
=936-954.=--Louis IV. (921-954); son of Charles the Simple; taken by his
mother into England, died by fall from his horse.
=954-986.=--Lothaire (941-986); son of Louis IV.; ruled with his father
from 952, succeeds him at fifteen years of age, protected by Hugh the
Great; poisoned.
986-987.--Louis V. (966-987); son of Lothaire; poisoned (supposed by his
queen, Blanche); last of race of Charlemagne.