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I wonder if King Rudolph of France resented his crown? I mean, seeking the crown probably

seemed like a good idea at the time, but the whole thing had been turning out to be an

enormous headache. And it all started when Rudolph's father-in-law, Robert, rebelled

against King Charles the simple, and drove him into Lorraine. Pretty soon thereafter,

Robert got himself crowned as King of the Franks, and that's not too bad. Having a father-in-law

who was the King of the Franks, that probably sounded pretty good to Rudolph. The trouble

though was that Charles was still out there, and he had allies. One was Rolo, the Viking

Duke of Normandy. But it didn't stop there. Charles also had the Lotharingeans. And sure

enough, it wasn't long before Charles came screaming back into France, supported by

a Lotharingean army. And while Charles was no match for the Frankish military, and he

was forced to flee the field with what was left of the Lotharingean men, they still managed

to deal a serious blow to the new ruling order of France, because at the end of the day,

King Robert of the Franks laid dead in the field. And that was a huge problem, because

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