in states and empires by ambition, cruelty, or state, and lieutenant-governor of his native tyranny. His "George Barnwell," "Fatal state; he was appointed to, but did not accept, Curiosity," and "Arden of Feversham," are the office of judge of the supreme court of the all planned on common and well-known stories; United States. He died in 1820. yet they have much more frequently drawn tears from an audience than the more pompous tragedies of "Alexander the Great,' "All for Love," &c. He died in 1739.

LIND, Dr. James, a celebrated medical writer, died in 1794.

LINDANUS, William, a Dutchman, made first bishop of Ruremonde, by Philip II., of LILLY, William, a famous English astrolo- Spain. He wrote some Latin books in defence ger, born in 1602, died in 1681. In him we have of the catholic religion, and died in 1588. an instance of the general superstition and igno- LINDENBRUCH, Frederic, a Fleming, the rance that prevailed in the time of the civil war laborious and learned editor of Virgil, Terence, between Charles I. and his parliament; for the and other classics. He died in 1638. king consulted this astrologer to know in what LINDSAY, John, a learned divine, for many quarter he should conceal himself if he could | years minister of the dissenting congregation in escape from Hampton court; and general Fair-Aldersgate-street, London. He wrote several fax, on the other side, sent for him to his army, books, and died in 1768. to ask him if he could tell by his art whether God was with them and their cause. Lilly, who made his fortune by favourable predictions to both parties, assured the general that God would be with him and his army. His almanacs were in repute upwards of 36 years, and to be found in almost every family in England.

LINDSAY, Sir David, of the Mount, Lyon King at Arms, an ancient Scotch writer and dramatic poet, born in 1496, died in 1557. His chief writings were, "Satires on the Vices of the Clergy." His poetical works were published in 1806.

LINDSAY, David, after studying in foreign universities, returned to support the reformed religion against queen Mary. He wrote a history of Scotland, and died in 1593.

LILY, William, an English grammarian, born at Oldham, in Hampshire, in 1466. He was appointed first master of St. Paul's school, by the founder, Dean Colet, in 1510, and died LINDSEY, Theophilus, born in 1723, took his of the plague at London, in 1522. He is highly degrees in arts at Cambridge, and obtained, afpraised by Erasmus, who revised the syntax inter other preferments, the valuable living of his "Grammar," for his uncommon knowledge in the languages, and admirable skill in the instruction of youth.

LILY, George, eldest son of the grammarian, patronised at Rome, by cardinal Pole. He wrote some historical books, and was the first who published a correct map of England; he died in 1559.

Catterick, in Yorkshire; which, however, be resigned, in 1773, having embraced the Socinian system. He then settled in London, where he opened a chapel, in Essex-street, Strand, in which he officiated till 1793, when he retired from the ministry. He died in 1808.

LINDWOOD, William, divinity professor, at Oxford, ambassador to Spain, and afterwards bishop of St. David's. He wrote the constitu tion of the archbishops of Canterbury, and

LILY, Peter, second son of the grammarian, was a dignitary of the church of Canterbury. He had a son named Peter, who was D. D., pre-died in 1446. bendary of St. Paul's, and archdeacon of Taunton; he died in 1614.

LINGELBACK, John, a celebrated German landscape-painter, of the 17th century.

LIMBORCH, Philip, a celebrated professor LINGUET, Simon Nicolas Henry, a French of divinity, in Holland, born in 1633, died in writer, born at Rheims. Ile was educated a 1712. His best work is a "History of the In- lawyer, and rose to the highest eminence as an quisition." advocate. He wrote "Theory of Laws, MeLIMNÆUS, John, a German lawyer, of Je-moirs of the Bastile, Political Annals," and many na, known as the author of various learned other works. He fell under the guillotine, in works; he died in 1663. 1794.

LINACRE, Dr. Thomas, a very learned English physician, born in 1460, died in 1524. He projected the foundation of the college of physicians, was the first president after its erection, and held that office for the seven years that he lived afterwards.

LINIERE, Francis, a French poet of great literary merit, but of dissipated character, and an obstinate atheist, died in 1704.

LINING, John, M. D., a native of Scotland, was a distinguished physician of South Carolina. He published an account of the yellow LINANT, Michael, a French poet, the inti-fever in 1753, the time of his death is not known. mate friend of Voltaire, who three times obtained the prize of the French academy; he died in 1749.

LINLEY, Thomas, a very eminent English composer of music, and one of the proprietors of Drury-lane theatre, died in 1795.

LINN, John Blair, D. D., minister of a presbyterian church in Philadelphia, known as a poet; he died in 1804.

LINCOLN, Benjamin, a distinguished officer LINN, William, D. D., an eminent presbyteand a major-general in the American army, dur- rian clergyman, of New-Jersey, afterwards seting the revolution. His services were conspi-tled at New-York; he died in 1808. cuous through the war. He was second in command at the capture of Burgoyne, commander of the forces in the southern states, was taken prisoner at Charleston, and exchanged, and afterwards shared in the siege of Yorktown, and superintended the capitulation of Cornwallis. After the war, he was repeatedly in public life, was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, and collector of the port of Boston until 1809. He died in 1810.

LINCOLN, Levi, a member of congress from achusetts, was attorney-general of the Unite, and for a time, acting secretary of

LINNÆUS, Charles Von, the father of mo dern botany, was born at Smaland, in Sweden, 1707. He made the tour of Lapland, in 1732, and traversed what is called the Lapland Desert, enduring great hardships, merely from an ardent love of science; and, after six months thus employed, returned to Upsal; in the university of which, at the age of 34, he was made professor of physic and botany. He died in 1778; leaving, among other works, 1. Systema

Nature, sistens regna tria Natura; 2. Biblio-invasion of William the Conqueror, to 1197, in theca Botanica; 3. Critica Botanica; 4. Genera five books. Plantarum erumque Characteres Naturalis; 5. Amonitates Academicæ; 6. Materia Medica, &c. LINT, Peter Van, a native of Antwerp, known as an eminent historical and portrait painter of the 17th century.

LINTRUSI, Severinus, professor of divinity and eloquence, at Copenhagen, and author of some theological works in Latin; he died in 1732.

LINUS, St, successor of St. Peter, at Rome, he is ranked ainong the martyrs of that city. LIOTARD, John Stephen, a crayon painter, of great fame, born at Geneva, in 1702.

LITTLEBURY, Isaac, an English divine, who published a translation of Herodotus. LITTLETON, or LYTTLETON, Thomas, judge of the court of common pleas, in the reign of Edward IV., and author of a celebrated treatise on tenures or titles, by which all estates were anciently held in England; he died in 1481.

LITTLETON, Adam, an excellent English philologist and grammarian; an indefatigable restorer of the Latin tongue, as appears from his Latin Dictionary," and an excellent critic in the Greek, born in 1627, died in 1661.

LITTLETON, Edward, an English divine and poet, in 1734.

LIOTARD, Peter, a French botanist, who began the study after he was 40 years old, and pursued it with so much zeal, that he was made LITTLETON, Edward, a distinguished memdirector of the public garden, at Grenoble; heber of parliament, chief justice of the court of died in 1796. common pleas, lord keeper of the great seal, and afterwards made a peer, by the title of lord Littleton; he died in 1645.

LIPPI, Philip, who from a Carmelite, became a painter. He was a native of Florence, and died in 1488.

1664.

LITTLETON, John, an active member of LIPPI, Lawrence, a painter, of Florence, who parliament. His attachment to Essex was the excelled in historical pieces and in portraits.cause of his being condemned as a conspirator, He also possessed merit as a poet; he died in though he was saved from execution by Sir Walter Raleigh; he died in prison in 1600. LIPSIUS, Justus, a most acute and learned LIVIA, wife of Tyberius Claudius Nero, afFlemish critic and commentator on ancient au-terwards married to Augustus, died A. D. 29. thors, born near Brussels, in 1547, died in 1606. LIVINGSTON, John, a Scotch presbyter, LIRON, John, a Benedictine of St. Maur, au-banished because he refused to take the oath of thor of several French works of great merit, died in 1749.

LIS, John Van der, a painter, born at Oldenburgh. His pieces on Scriptural subjects and moral sports, possess great merit; he died in

1629.

allegiance, on account of his religious opinions. He went to Holland, where he continued to preach. He was author of some letters, and died in 1672.

LIVINGSTON, William, LL. D., an eminent lawyer, of New-York, and a zealous advocate LISLE, Claude de, a native of Lorraine, ex-of the rights of the colonies, removed to Newcelled as a teacher of geography. He wrote Jersey, and was chosen a member of Congress, "Historical Relation of Siam," "Abridgment and afterwards governor of that state; he died of Universal History," &c.; he died at Paris, in 1790.

in 1720

LIVINGSTON, John, D. D., an eminent diLISLE, William de, an eminent French geo-vine, of New York, born in 1746. He was pastor grapher, born at Paris, in 1675, died in 1726. of the Dutch reformed church in the city of NewLISLE, Joseph Nicholas de, an able astrono-York, and, at the same time, professor of theolomer, brother to William. He had the friend-gy in the theological seminary of that church; ship of Newton and Halley, and was invited to Russia, where he was placed at the head of the observatory; he died in 1768.

LISLE, Sir George, learnt the art of war in Flanders, and distinguished himself in the civil wars of Great Britain. He was knighted on the field of battle, at Newbury, by Charles I., for his bravery; he died in 1648.

and on its removal to Queen's college, N. J., he was placed at the head of the institution; he died at New-Brunswick, in January, 1825.

LIVINGSTON, Brockholst, an eminent lawyer, of New-York, was engaged in the army during a part of the revolution, and was at the capture of Burgoyne. He went to Spain, in 1779, as private secretary to Mr. Jay, and on his LISOLA, Francis de, was 4 years ambassa-return, soon rose to professional eminence in dor to England from the emperor Ferdinand III. He wrote on the ambitious views of Lewis XIV., which highly offended the French; he died in 1677.

his native city. He was a judge of the supreme court of New-York, and afterwards of the United States, until his death in 1823.

LIVINGSTON, Philip, a member of Congress, in 1776, and one of the signers of the declaration of Independence; he died in 1778.

LISTER, Matthew, president of the college of physicians, and physician to queen Anne, and Charles I., who knighted him; he died in 1657. LIVINGSTON, Robert R., a distinguished LISTER, Martin, nephew to sir Matthew, member of congress from New-York, was one studied physic abroad, and on his return, settled of the committee which drew up the declaration at York, where he acquired great reputation. of Independence, and after its adoption, was, in He afterwards removed to London, and attend-1780, appointed secretary for foreign affairs. ed the duke of Portland on his journey to Paris; He was afterwards chancellor of the state of he died in 1711. New-York, and minister from the United States LITHGOW, William, a Scotchman, famous to France. He materially assisted Fulton, by for his travels on foot over Europe, Asia, and supplying him with funds, both in France and Africa, and his sufferings by imprisonment and at home, to enable him to pursue his experitorture at Malaga. He was born the latter end ments, and to carry his discoveries into effect. of the 15th, and died about the middle of the He died in 1813. 16th century.

LITTLE, William, an English historian, who wrote the history of his country from the

LIVINIUS, or LIVINEUS,John, Latin translator of some of the works of Gregory and Chrysostom, was a student at Cologne, where

he was distinguished as a Grecian scholar; he died in 1599.

LIVIUS, Andronicus, a Roman comic poet, whose plays are lost. He lived 240 B. C.

LIVIUS, Titus, the best of the Roman historiaus, born at Padua, 59 B. C. The history of Livy, like other great works of antiquity, is transmitted down to us exceedingly mutilated and imperfect. Its books were originally 142, of which only 35 are extant. It commenced with the foundation of Rome, and concluded about 13 B. C. The encomiums bestowed upon Livy, by both ancients and moderns, are great and numerous; but probity, candour, and impartiality, are what have most particularly distinguished him above all historians. died A. D. 17.

monk, eminently known by his works: "The History of Britany," 2 vols. folio, "The Cor quest of Spain," "History of Paris," 5 vols, folio, &c.; he died in 1727.

LOBKÓWITZ, Bolesiaus de Hassenstein, baron de, a Bohemian nobleman, who, alter visiting several countries, and making himself famous as a negotiator and warrior, entered the clerical profession; he died in 1510.

LOBO, Jerome, a jesuit, of Lisbon, who was sent on a mission to the Indies, and penetrated into Abyssinia, of which he published a very accurate account, and died in 1678.

LOBO, Rodriguez Francis, a celebrated Portuguese poet, whose works were published in He 1721

LLOYD, William, an English prelate, successively, king's chaplain, prebend of Salisbury, vicar of St. Mary's, dean of Bangor, prebend of St. Paul's, and bishop of St. Asaph. He was a zealous promoter of the revolution. His publications were numerous; he died in 1717.

LOCK, Matthew, an excellent musician, of Exeter, published some musical pieces, in 16557; and after the restoration, was employed as a composer of operas. His vocal music is still greatly esteemed; he died in 1677.

LOCKART, Alexander, author of "Memoirs of Scotland,' was born, near Edinburgh, ia 1673, and killed in a duel, in 1732.

LLOYD, Nicholas, an English divine, author of "A Historical, Geographical, and Political LOCKE, John, the most celebrated philosoDictionary," in 1670. He was rector of New-pher of the age he lived in, and one of the ington, and died in 1630. brightest ornaments of English literature, was LLOYD, Robert, an English poet and mis-born in 1632. By the patronage of lord Shaftscellaneous writer, born in 1733, was a compa-bury, he held a respectable situation under gonion of Wilkes, Churchill, Colman, &c., and vernment, and wrote some able political tracis. died in the fleet prison, in 1764. He wrote a His lordship, however, being at length epelpoem called "The Actor;" "The Capricious led to fly to Holland, to avoid being prosecuted Lovers," an opera, and other dramatic pieces. for high treason, Mr. Locke followed him. In LLOYD, Thomas, a native of Wales, joined 1685, the English demanded him of the States the society of quakers, and came to America General, on suspicion of his being concernwith William Penn. He was lieutenant go-ed in Monmouth's rebellion. On this, be kept vernor of Pennsylvania, and president of the colonial council. He died in 1694.

LLWELYN AB GRUFYDD, a Welch prince who heroically resisted the invasion of Edward I. of England; but he fell, and the liberty of his country perished with him in 1982.

himself private for several months, and employed the time in preparing for the press that work which has immortalized his name and fame, "The Essay on the Human Understanding.' It was not published, however, till after the revolution, an event which restored him to LLYWARCH AP LLYWELA, a Welch his native country. The latter years of his life, bard of merit; who flourished from 1170 to 1220.he devoted chiefly to religious retirement, and to LLYWARCH HEN, a Welch poet, distin- the writing of works on theology, and died at guished also as an able defender of his country the seat of lady Masham, in 1704. against the Saxon invasion, in which he is said LOCKE, Samuel, D. D., a native and distin. to have lost 24 sons. He flourished about 630,guished minister of Massachusetts, was, for and died aged 150.

LLYWELYN AP JORWERTH, king of North Wales. He was a wise, active, and warike prince; he died in 1240.

LLYWELYN AP SITSYLT, a Welch king of South Wales. He was killed in battle, in 1021.

LLYWELYN VARDD, a Welch poet,some of whose pieces have been preserved. He Sourished between 1130 and 1180.

LLYWELYN O LANGEWYDD, or LLYWELYN SION, a Welch bard, of Glamorgan, who died in 1616. He often presided at .he meetings of the bards.

LLYWELYN, Thomas, author of a history of the different editions of the Welch Bible, in which he evinced great learning; he died in

1796.

several years, president of Harvard college; he died after 1773.

LOCKER, John, an English gentleman, devoted to literary pursuits, and an author of some works; he died in 1760.

LOCKMAN, John, author of "Rosalinda," a musical drama, "David's Lamentations," and other works; he died in 1771.

LOCKWOOD, Samuel, D. D., an American clergyman, settled in Andover, Connecticut, died in 1791.

LOCKYER, Nicholas, Cromwell's chaplain, and author of some theological tracts; he died in 1684.

LODBROG, Regner, a celebrated king of Denmark, at the beginning of the 9th century He was a warrior and poet, full of fanaticism and religious frenzy.

LOBB, Theophilus, a native of London, an LODGE, Dr. Thomas, an English physician eminent physician. He wrote some theologi-and dramatic writer, died in 1625. We find him cal, and some medical tracts, and died in 1763. characterized, by many of his cotemporary LOBEL, Matthias, a native of Lisle, who de-poets, as a man of very considerable genius. voted himself to the study of botany. After travelling in most parts of the continent, he went to England, where he was nominated hysician and botanist to James I.; he died in

TEAU, GuyAlexis, a French Benedictine

LOEWENDAL, Ulric Frederic Woldemar. count de, a native of Hamburgh, distinguished as an officer in the service of Poland, and afterwards of Denmark, against Sweden. He was 1755." finally a field-marshal of France, and died in

LOGAN, Frederic, baron de, a German poet,|| LOMBARD, John Lewis, professor of artii. of considerable merit, whose Epigrams, &c. lery, at Mentz. He wrote on the movement of have been edited by Lessing; he died in 1655. projectiles, principles of gunnery, &c.; he died LOGAN, John, a Scotch divine and poet, born in 1794. about 1748, died in London, in 1788. His poems LOMBART, Lambert, an architect and painwere published in 1781; and in 1790, two voter, a native of Liege, died in 1565. lumes of his sermons were printed; for he had obtained much distinction as an eloquent and affecting preacher.

LOMENIE, Henry Augustus, count de Brienne, for some time ambassador to England, and secretary of state in the reign of Lewis XIV.,

LOGAN, James, a native of Ireland, distin-of France; he died in 1666. guished for his talents and learning, came to Pennsylvania with the proprietor, in 1699, and held the offices of chief justice of the colony and president of the council. On the death of the governor, in 1736, the administration devolved on him for two years.

LOGAN, an American Indian chief, known for his friendship to the white people, until his family were wantonly murdered by them, in 1774, and afterwards, for the hostility with which he avenged his loss.

LOMENIE, Henry Lewis, count de Brienne, son of the preceding, and also his successor in his high offices. But the loss of his wife, whom he tenderly loved, affected his understanding, and he was dismissed; he died in 1698.

LOMENIE DE RRIENNE, Stephen Charles de, of the same family, was made archbishop of Toulouse, and afterwards cardinal, and prime-minister of Lewis XVI.; but his abilities were below his high station, which he quitted, LOGES, Mary Bruneau, a French lady, much after having disgraced Calonne; he died in admired for her wit and genius, particularly by 1798. the king of Sweden, and the duke of Orleans, LOMONOZOF, a celebrated Russian poet,and and called the tenth muse. She has left none great refiner of his native tongue, born in 1711, of her poetry behind her. died in 1764. The odes of Lomonozof are greatLOHENSTEIN, Daniel Gaspard de, a learn-ly admired for originality of invention, sublied German, who wrote some dramatic pieces,mity of sentiment, and energy of language. and other works; he died in 1683.

LOIR, Nicholas, a painter, born at Paris, the disciple of Le Brun. He died professor of the academy of painting.

He is in fact the Pindar of Russia. Lomonozof made also no inconsiderable figure in history, having published two works relative to that of his own country.

LOKMAN, surnamed the Wise, sometimes LONDE, Francis Richard de la, a French called Abre Anam, or father of Anam, a philo-poet, of considerable merit, who also wrote on sopher and fabulist of great account among the history, morals, and antiquities; he died in Easterns. Being once asked how he had attain-1765. ed so exalted a pitch of wisdom and virtue, Lokman replied, "It was by always speaking the truth, by keeping my word inviolably, and by never intermeddling in affairs that did not

concern me."

LONDON, John Campbell, earl and baron of, was commander-in-chief of the British forces in America, and governor of the colony of Virginia.

LONG, Edward, a judge of the vice-admiralty court, in the West Indies, and author of a History of Jamaica, &c.; he died in England, in 1813.

LOLLARD, Walter, founder of the religious sect called Lollards, who denied the power and influence of the virgin Mary over Christ; taught that the mass, baptism, and extreme unction, LONG, James le, a priest of the oratory, born were of no use or avail; rejected the form of at Paris. He was professor at several univerthe penitential, and renounced all obedience sities, and was well skilled in ancient and moboth to the ecclesiastical and civil magistrates.dern languages, and in mathematics and phileHe was burnt for heresy at Cologne, in 1322. sophy; he died in 1721.

LOLME, John Lewis de, LL. D., a native of LONG, Thomas, an able divine, born at ExeGeneva, in which country he practised as an ter. He was author of the history of the Donaadvocate till he went to England, where he pub-tists, Examination of Hales' Treatise on Schism, lished, in 1775, a celebrated treatise, On the &c.; he died in 1700.

Constitution of England;" a work well known LONG, Dr. Roger, a very eminent astrono and justly esteemed. Junius recommended itmer, and author of an excellent treatise on that to the public, as deep, solid, and ingenious; and science. He erected in one of the rooms of in the British senate it was honoured with the Pembroke college, of which he was master, a applause of a Camden and a Chatham. He sphere of eighteen feet diameter, elevated to published, besides, a "History of the Flagel-the latitude of Cambridge, wherein thirty perlants, or Memorials of Human Superstition, im-sons might sit conveniently: it is turned with itated from the Abbe Boileau." Dr. De Lolme, great ease by a small winch, though the whole died in Switzerland, in 1807. weight is above 1000 lbs. He was born in NorLOM, Jossu Van, a physician, who practised folk, in 1679, and died in 1770. at Tournay and Bruges. His works on medical LONGBEARD, William, a facetious priest, subjects, written in elegant Latin, were publish-notorious for raising seditions in London, in the ed in 3 vols. Amsterdam, 1745. reign of Richard I. He was torn to pieces by horses, and then hung upon a gallows.

LOMAZZO, John Paul, a native of Milan, known as a landscape, and portrait painter. He wrote a treatise on painting, in Italian, and died in 1598.

LOMBARD, Peter, well known by the title of master of the sentences, from a work of his, which is looked on as the source and origin of the scholastic theology in the Latin church. He was born at Novara, in Lombardy, and died in 1164.

LONGEPIERE, Hilary Bernard de, a learned Frenchman, born at Dijon. He translated into verse, Anacreon, Theocritus, Sappho, &c., and was the author of some tragedies. He died in 1727.

LONGINUS, Dionysius, a Grecian philosopher and orator, author of a "Treatise on the Sublime," which raised his reputation to such a height as no critic, either before or since, com¿

ever reach. His cotemporaries had so great an opinion of his judgment and taste, that they appointed him sovereign judge of all authors; and every thing was received or rejected by the public according to the decision of Longinus. He was put to death by Aurelian, in 273. LONGLAND, or LANGELAND, Robert, an English poet, born in Shropshire. His "Vision of Pierce Plowman," abounds with severe re- LORME, Philibert de, an eminent French flections on the Romish clergy, and exhibits a cu-architect and antiquary, born at Lyons, died in rious picture of the times. It was finished in 1557, leaving behind several books of architecture greatly esteemed.

LOTHAIRE I., son of Lewis the Debonnaire, was partner on the throne of Germany with his father, in 817, and made king of Lombardy LONICENUS, Adam, son of the preceding, three years after. He revolted against bis fawas a sagacious physician, who died at Frank-ther, seized him, and shut him in prison. This fort, in 1586. He was the author of many works, chiefly on natural history.

LOON, Theodore Van, of Brussels, whose excellent paintings adorn the public edifices of Rome and Venice, was born in 1630. LORD, Benjamin, D. D., an American diin 1157. vine, settled at Norwich, Connecticut; he died in 1784, aged 90.

LOREDANO, John Francis, a learned and ingenious senator, of Venice, author of a life of Adam, History of the Kings of Cyprus, &c., was born in 1606.

LORENZETTI, Ambrogio, a painter, of Sienna, and the first who painted with success, storms, rain, and the effect of winds; he died in 1350.

LOTHAIRE, king of France, son of Lewis IV. His wife, Emma, gave him poison, of which he died in 986.

LOTHAIRE, king of Lorraine, abandoned his wife to marry his mistress, but pope Nicho las I. had the spirit to interfere, and to compel his majesty to again take his lawful wife. He died in 869.

LOUIS I., surnamed the Debonnaire, or the Feeble, son of Charlemagne, was proclaimed LORENZINI, Lawrence, a native of Flo- king of France, and emperor of the West, in rence, eminent as a mathematician. He was 814. He was in a perpetual quarrel either with imprisoned twenty years, during which time he his brothers or sons, until his death, which hapwrote 12 books on conical and cylindrical sec-pened in 840. tions, in Latin; he died in 1721.

LOUIS II., the Young, eldest son of Lothaire LORENZINI, or LAURENTINI, Francis I., was made king of Italy in 844, and succeeded Maria, an Italian poet, who wrote "Sacred to the imperial throne in 855. He was a brave Dramas:" he was born at Rome, in 1680, and and virtuous monarch, and anxious to preserve the dignity of the throne; he died in 875.

LOUIS III., surnamed the Blind, succeeded to the throne in 890, and was crowned by Benedict IV. He was soon after, surprised and taken