Italy he was unable to prevent the partition of Lorraine between Louis the German and Charles the Bald. Some jealousy between Louis and Basil followed the victory at Bari, and in reply to an insult from the eastern emperor Louis attempted to justify his right to the title "emperor of the Romans." He had withdrawn into Benevento to prepare for a further campaign, when he was treacherously attacked in his palace, robbed and imprisoned by Adelchis, prince of Benevento, in August 871. The landing of fresh bands of Saracens compelled Adelchis to release his prisoner a month later, and Louis was forced to swear he would take no revenge for this injury, nor ever enter Benevento with an army. Returning to Rome, he was released from his oath, and was crowned a second time as emperor by Pope Adrian II. on the 18th of May 872. He won further successes against the Saracens, who were driven from Capua, but the attempts of the emperor to punish Adelchis were not very successful. Returning to northern Italy, he died, somewhere in the province of Brescia, on the 12th of August 875, and was buried in the church of St Ambrose at Milan, having named as his successor in Italy his cousin Carloman, son of Louis the German. Louis was an excellent ruler, of whom it was said "in his time there was great peace, because every one could enjoy his own possessions." See _Annales Bertiniani_, _Chronica S. Benedicti Casinensis_, both in the _Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores_, Bände i. and iii. (Hanover and Berlin, 1826 fol.); E. Mühlbacher, _Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter den Karolingern_ (Innsbruck, 1881); Th. Sickel, _Acta regum et imperatorum Karolinorum, digesta et enarrata_ (Vienna, 1867-1868); and E. Dümmler, _Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches_ (Leipzig, 1887-1888). (A. W. H.*)