Editing Lothair I (section)

== Death and aftermath ==
[[File:Bas-côté nord, baie III Lotharius Romanorum Imperator (milieu XIIIe).jpg|thumb|right|200px|13th-century stained glass depiction of Lothair, [[Strasbourg Cathedral]]]]

In 855 he became seriously ill, and despairing of recovery renounced the throne, divided his lands among his three sons, and on 23 September entered the monastery of [[Prüm]], where he died six days later. He was buried at Prüm, where his remains were found in 1860.<ref name=eb11 /> It was at [[Prüm]] that Lothair was most commemorated.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/writing-the-early-medieval-west/remembering-and-forgetting-lothar-i/2379257020471FF859F557A43FB0A041|chapter=Remembering and Forgetting Lothar I|last=Screen|first=Elina|title=Writing the Early Medieval West |date=May 2018|publisher= Cambridge University Press|pages=248–260|doi=10.1017/9781108182386.017|isbn=9781108182386|access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref>

The same year, Lothair's kingdom was divided between his three sons<ref name=eb11 /> in a deal called the [[Treaty of Prüm]]: the eldest, [[Louis II of Italy|Louis II]], received Italy and the title of emperor; the second, [[Lothair II of Lotharingia|Lothair II]], received [[Lotharingia]]; the youngest, [[Charles of Provence|Charles]], received [[Provence]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}