Charles I (II) the Bald 169Vikings on the Seine and Scheldt Valleys intensified,
Charles was obliged to entrust command in NEUSTRIA,a
region between the Seine and the Loire, to Robert the
Strong (d. 866), an ancestor of the CAPETIANS.
In the meantime the magnates of regions of Neustria
and Aquitaine revolted and appealed to Charles’s brother
Louis the German, who invaded in 858. But resistance
led by Archbishop HINCMARof RHEIMSobliged Louis to