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Charles ( 825 or 8304 June 863 ) was the second son of Pepin I Of Aquitaine and Engelberga. He lived at the court of his uncle Lothair until 848 , when, hearing of the deposition of his brother, he set out in March 849 with a band of followers to claim the Aquitainian realm. He was captured by Vivian, Count Of Maine at the Loire and sent to Charles The Bald . He was put in the monastery of Corbie as either a monk or a deacon.

He escaped in 854 to recruit an army to fight for his brother. He had little success and fled to the court of Louis The German , who made him the Archbishop Of Mayence and Archchancellor on 8 March 856 . He made a respectable bishop and died on 4 June 863 and was buried in Saint Alban 's at Mayence.


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  • ''Dictionnaire de Biographie Française''. Roman d'Amat and R. Limousin-Lamothe (ed). Paris , 1967 .