Western Europe: The Holy Roman Catholic Emperor of the West and king of Italy Louis II “Murus Ecclesiae” dies without male issue; he is succeeded as king of Italy by his cousin Charles the Fat and as emperor by Charles’s father, Louis III the German. When Louis III dies too less than a year later, Charles the Fat becomes emperor as Charles III, while the kingdom of the East Franks (Germany) is carved between the other two sons of Louis the German, Pepin, (*OTL Carloman) who gets Bavaria and Swabia, and Louis IV who gets Saxony and Franconia British Isles: Southern Europe: Middle East: Middle East: