Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

Lotharius the eldest, that had used his Father so traitorously and unnaturally, sought too great a part for himself, and came to a War with Ludovic and Charles, who conquered him, and put him to a shameful flight, An. 841. in which Fight, say Historians, a greater slaughter was made of the French, than was ever known in the memory of man. This was the man that deposed his Father for the slaughter of the Subjects by his Wars against him. The next year they fought again, and he was again overcome.

Lotharius the eldest, that had used his Father so trayterously and unnaturally, sought too great a part for himself, and came to a War with Ludovic and Charles, who conquered him, and put him to a shameful flight, An. 841. in which Fight, say Historians, a greater slaughter was made of the French, than was ever known in the memory of man. This was the man that deposed his Father for the slaughter of the Subjects by his Wars against him. The next year they fought again, and he was again overcome.

§ 146. CCLII. It's easy then to conjecture which way the next Council (which was at Aquisgrane) would go: The conquering Princes made the Bishops their Counsellors, when they had made Lotharius fly out of the Country, what they should do with his Kingdom; and, saith Binnius, they received the answer which Nithardus li. 1. describeth in these words, ['The Bishops considering the deeds of Lotharius from the beginning, how he had driven his Father out of his Kingdom; how he had made the Christian People perjured by his Covetousness; how oft he had frustrated the Oath he made to his Fathers, and his Brethren; how oft, since his Fathers death, he had attempted to disinherit his Brethren; how many Murders, Adulteries, Burnings, and all kind of heinous deeds the Universal Church suffered by his most wicked Covetousness: And that he neither had any knowledge of governing the Commonwealth, nor could men find any footsteps of goodness of will in governing. For which causes deservedly, and by the just judgment of God Almighty, they said he fled first in Battle, and then from his Kingdom: Therefore all (the Bishops) unanimously agree and consent, that for his wickedness God hath cast him out, and hath delivered his Kingdom to his Brothers that ⟨p. 260⟩