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TIL French King Charles the Simple was the youngest son of Charles the Stammerer. Charles the Simple inherited the throne after the death of his older brother Louis the Child. Some claimed that his cousin Charles the Fat should be king. Eventually King Charles the Simple was crowned in 911.

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