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Lower Burgundy was a historical kingdom in
Provence, in southeastern
France. Lower Burgundy is sometimes called the Kingdom of
Arelat or incorrectly the Kingdom of Cisjurane Burgundy. The borders of Lower Burgundy were the
Mediterranean Sea to the south,
Septimania to the southwest,
Aquitaine to the west, the Kingdom of
Upper Burgundy to the north, and the Kingdom of Italy to the east.
Lower Burgundy was founded by
Boso, Count of Arles in 879, following the death of the
West Frankish King
Louis the Stammerer. Boso was an incompetent ruler and by 882 the kingdom was reintegrated into the West Frankish realm by one of Louis' sons,
Carloman. Lower Burgundy passed to
Charles the Fat in 884 following Carloman's death and in 890, following the revolt of
Arnulf of Carinthia and the death of Charles in 888, Boso's son
Louis the Blind was crowned King of Lower Burgundy.
Louis the Blind was invited into Italy by
Adalbert II of Tuscany who wished to keep
Berengar of Friuli from gaining control of the Italian peninsula. Louis defeated Berengar and was crowned
Holy Roman Emperor by
Pope Benedict IV. Berengar defeated Louis the next year, forced him to flee Italy and promise to never return. In 905, Louis again invaded Italy but was defeated and blinded for breaking his oath. Louis lost his titles King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor to Berengar.
Blind, Louis had
Hugh of Arles, the Count of Provence, be his regent. Hugh was elected King of Italy in 924 during a Civil War, and he spent the next two years ejecting his opponent, King
Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy, from Italy. Louis died 928 and was succeeded by Hugh. After failing to expand his power by a marriage to
Marozia (the effective ruler of
Rome), Hugh spent the next five years of his reign fighting
Magyar raids and
Andalusian pirates. In 933, Hugh made peace with Rudolph of Upper Burgundy by giving him the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy, and the two Burgundies were combined into the
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