Louis the Pious#Ordinatio imperii

The Ordinatio Imperii was to give the attempt of Louis the Pious, the Frankish empire a new order. Set in a traditional Kapitular in 18 chapters regulation was issued in the year 817 in the reform Reichstag in Aachen, with the approval of the leading nobility and the Church.

Ludwig followed it, as can be seen from the classic illustrations of a ruling in the church consider (see Agobard ), which pursued the ideal of a united Christianity and a ruler, and could rely in the high -down with the Carolingian nobility, feared to suffer property loss in a division of the kingdom. With the Ordinatio Imperii should the previous Erbregelung to divide the existing kingdom among the descendants in equal parts, to be changed to get with the goal of the unity of the Frankish Empire. Under the scheme, the firstborn son of Louis the Pious, Lothar I, should be emperor of the empire, the brothers Pepin and Louis the German emperor should the subordinate kings in Aquitaine ( Pippin ) and Bavaria ( Ludwig) are. With the second wife of Louis, Judith, the son Karl bore him the Bald, began the failure of the Ordinatio Imperii, as Ludwig, most likely beset by Judith Ordinatio Imperii began to change in favor of Charles, which Lothar and his brothers did not accept.