<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Meerssen" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Treaty of Meerssen">Treaty of Meerssen</a>: King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_the_German" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis the German">Louis the German</a> and his half-brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Bald" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Charles the Bald">Charles the Bald</a> partition the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Francia" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Middle Francia">Middle Frankish Kingdom</a> into two larger east and west divisions.<sup about="#mwt23" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_8#cite_note-2" id="mwJA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt20" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPhilip_GriersonMark_A._S._Blackburn1986">Philip Grierson; Mark A. S. Blackburn (1986). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WpQiZ8BX2q8C&amp;pg=PA229" id="mwB0o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB0s">Medieval European Coinage: With a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The early Middle Ages, 5th-10th centuries. 1</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwB0w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>229. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB00" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB04" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-521-03177-6" id="mwB08" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-03177-6"><bdi id="mwB1A">978-0-521-03177-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt20" class="Z3988" id="mwB1E" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Medieval+European+Coinage%3A+With+a+Catalogue+of+the+Coins+in+the+Fitzwilliam+Museum%2C+Cambridge.+The+early+Middle+Ages%2C+5th-10th+centuries.+1&amp;rft.pages=229&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1986&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-521-03177-6&amp;rft.au=Philip+Grierson&amp;rft.au=Mark+A.+S.+Blackburn&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWpQiZ8BX2q8C%26pg%3DPA229&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+8"></span></span>