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Louis the Pious as a Christian Roman Emperor, portrait from De laudibus sanctae crucis by Rabanus Maurus.
Louis I, also known as Louis the Pious, died on June 20, 840. He passed away at Petersau, an island in the Rhine River located near Ingelheim in present-day Germany.1