The Treaty of Verdun (Verdun-sur-Meuse, August 843) was a treaty between the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne, which divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms.
The Treaty of Verdun (Verdun-sur-Meuse, August 843) was first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century. Three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne, divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms.