Carloman, son of Charles the Bald
Carloman (franz: Carloman, † 876 in Echternach ) was a member of the Frankish ruling dynasty of the Carolingians. He was a younger son of the West Frankish king and Roman emperor Charles the Bald, from his first marriage with Irmentrud.
To avoid the traditional with the Frankish rule sharing among all rulers sons, intended Charles the Bald in favor of his eldest son, Louis the Stammerer, to put his younger sons of the clergy, thus depriving them of the ability to succession in the kingdom. Therefore Carloman received 854 as the first Carolingian ever the tonsure and was appointed shortly afterwards Abbot of Saint- Médard in Soissons. After his brother Lothar 865 death he received the Abbey of Saint- Germain in Auxerre.
Despite his clergy Carloman was active in secular politics and undertook with some 870 followers a revolt against his father. The uprising failed and Carloman was withdrawn in Senlis by a judge saying his father his abbeys and locked in the Castrum of Senlis. Soon released, he fled to Flanders, where he continued the revolt. A mediation attempt of his brother, Count Baldwin Iron Arm, he rejected. In 873 Carloman was captured again and imprisoned in Senlis. A meeting of the West Frankish bishops said therefore to him from his ecclesiastical and only confessed to him the lay communion. This restored to the laity, Carloman received all the rights of an heir to the throne again and thus became an important political factor. Quickly, a new opposition leader against Great Charles the Bald, who had an exemption Carloman and presumably its enthronement of the target formed. After the ruler had this new uprising, quickly put down, he proceeded mild with the actual conspirators. His son, however, who had been personally not involved in the uprising this time, he was blinded, so as to deny him again and now finally the throne.
After this criminal Charles man was brought to the Abbey of Corbie, where he was to live as a monk. From there he managed to escape but in the East Frankish kingdom of his uncle Louis the German. This appointed him abbot of the monastery of Echternach, where he died a short time later.