Caption:
'Louis and Charles Taking "Strasburg Oath" Before Their Armies', (842AD), 1890. The Oaths of Strasbourg were pledges of allegiance between Louis the German (c 806-876), ruler of East Francia, and his half-brother Charles the Bald (823-877), ruler of West Francia made on 12 February 842. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]