Carloman (830-880) was a member of the Eastern FrankishCarolingian ruling house. The son of Louis the German, King of the East Franks, and Emma, daughter of the count Welf, he received the title of King of Bavaria from his father in 876. Upon the death of Charles the Bold of West Francia in 877, Carloman also became King of Italy, the first German ruler to do so. In 879 he was crippled by a stroke and abdicated in favor of his brothers, granting Louis Bavaria and Charles the Fat Italy. His son was the East Frankish king and Emperor, Arnulf of Carinthia.
The largest state of Germany, Bavaria is bordered by the Czech Republic on the east, by Austria on the southeast and south, by Baden-Württemberg on the west, by Hesse on the northwest, and by Thuringia and Saxony on the north.
Bavaria was overrun by foreign armies, notably in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778, by which Bavaria lost the Inn Quarter to Austria), and the French Revolutionary Wars.
King Louis I (1825–48), dethroned by the mild revolution of 1848, was succeeded by the able Maximilian II (1848–64) and the brilliant but insane Louis II (1864–86).
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