A Study On Louis The Pious’s Church Policy

Louis the Pious, king of the Frankish Kingdom, from 814 to 840. He was the third emperor of the Carolingian Dynasty, and the heir of Charlemagne, who was considered the father of Europe.The life of Louis the Pious was full of ups and downs. Charlemagne divided the whole empire into three parts in 806, and Louis the Pious became the king of Aquitaine. With the pass away of his two brothers in 810 and 811, the fate of Louis the Pious was totally changed. He inherited the first empire of the Western Europe from his father when he was 37 years old, then he became the Holy Rome emperor. However, in his later reign, a lot of civil wars raged almost continuously. The unified empire was divided into three parts after his death.It is undeniable that Louis the Pious is not a successful ruler, but he is not an inactive ruler. During his reign, he tried hard to strengthen the monarchical power and maintain the unity of the empire through carrying out the political, religious, military and other policies. One of the most significant is the Church policy. The policy not only maintains the unity of the empire to a certain degree, but also improves the laws and organization structure of the Church.The central topic of this paper is Louis the Pious’s Church policy. This paper studied Louis the Pious’s Church policy on the basis of referring to lots of the related literature inside and abroad and summing up results of previous studies. The author analyzes the social and historical background, concrete contents and influences of the policy. Let people know the contributions of Louis the Pious to the administrating of the empire and the maintaining the unity of the empire. Let people know more about the Louis the Pious and the development of the Church.