months later. As a part of the plans to integrate Lotharingia into the East Frankish realm, the rule of King Zwentibold was enforced by his father, supported by the archbishops Herman I of Cologne and Ratbod of Trier, against the resistance of the local nobility. As he helped the common population too much, he began to be hated in a few years. He was fighting unruly nobles when his father Arnulf died in 899 and the legitimate son Louis the Child became king of East Francia at the age of six. Death and legacy Zwentibold attempted to take advantage of the succession of his minor half-brother to establish complete independence for his Lotharingian kingdom. However, after he had lost his father's backing, the entire nobility supported Louis and asked him to intervene. In 900, Count Reginar I of Hainault rose against Zwentibold and slew him near present-day Susteren. His remains are buried at Susteren Abbey. After Zwentibold's death, King Louis the Child also ruled over Lotharingia. However, under his reign the East Frankish realm disintegrated and from 903 Zwentibold's kingdom was administered by the Lahngau Count Gebhard, a scion of the Conradine dynasty, who received the title of a Duke of Lorraine. In 897, he married Oda, a daughter of Duke Otto I of Saxony. He had three daughters, who are mentioned in the Gesta episcoporum Leodensium: Benedetta (born c. 898), abbey of Susteren Cecilia (born c. 899), abbey of Susteren Relenda (born c. 900) Notes References Collins, Roger (1999). Early Medieval Europe 300–1000, 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillan Annales Fuldenses, sive Annales regni Francorum orientalis, 10th century. Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis, 10th century External links Literature on Zwentibold in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii |- |- 870s births 900 deaths Year of birth uncertain Frankish warriors Kings of Lotharingia 9th-century Frankish monarchs Roman Catholic royal saints Sons of emperors 9th-century Lotharingian people