Who were Charles the Bald's main rivals for power?
His Brothers
Foreign Kings
Local Nobility
Roman Emperors
Answer
His main rivals were his brothers as they each received a sizeable portion of the empire when it was divided by the Treaty of Verdun in 843. Pepin II of Aquitaine, who was the eldest of the three, held the region that would later be France. Louis the German controlled East Francia, which included most of modern-day Germany and parts of Eastern Europe.
The Bald & the Bold: Unraveling the Reign of Charles the Bald
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