'Louis the Pious Doing Penance for the Treatment of his Nephew, Bernard', (c818), 1890. Louis the Pious (778- 840) King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father Charlemagne, in penance for blinding his nephew Bernard of Italy, a procedure which killed him. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]
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