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On 840 on Louis I of East Francia’s death, death his kingdom would be divided into two namely to his sons, Charles and Pepin, Charles II of Neustria would expel the Aquitainians from their half of Neustria which would cause the Aquitainians ruled by Lothari I to focus south and expelling the moors from Iberia and it seemed that the strategy of Grimoaldo and his son Arechi I had worked against the Franks in the long run and the Empire of Charles I of Francia is no more.