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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, was born on April 16, 778, in Chasseneuil, near Poitiers, in the region of Aquitaine (modern-day France).1