WI: Alternate division of the Carolingian empire

wiki said:
The Empire of the Carolingians had been divided among various members of the Carolingian dynasty. From the inception of the Empire, these included: King Charles receiving Neustria, King Louis the Pious receiving Aquitaine, and King Pepin receiving Italy. Pepin died with an illegitimate son Bernard in 810, and Charles died without heirs in 811. Although Bernard succeeded Pepin as King of Italy, Louis was made co-Emperor in 813 and the entire Empire passed to him with Charlemagne's death in the winter of 814.
What if all three had outlived Charlemagne and produced semi-competent heirs?
Which way were Arles-D.Burgundy-K.Burgundy supposed to be divided? :confused:
And how would being integrated with germany affect the Gallo-Romance spoken in northern france?

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depending on when this is a map of, that may be inaccurate. if the map is pre-911, the Normans won't be there, thus no Normandy.

also, why Dukedom and not Duchy?

also, the Carolingians wouldn't have a kingdom as a subdivision (or for that matter a duchy, AFAIK their [provinces] were nonheriditary posts. not to mention the fact that the Kingdoms of Burgundy and Arles were the same thing, and didn't exist until the mid-10th century.
 
well, i based it on this map [warning; huge], i don't know how accurate it is.
And i seem to have made the papal states too large : /.

That shows the partitioning of the empire in the Treaty of Verdun, and the subdivisions of those three kingdoms...

These maps are better ones for depicting Charlemagne's Empire:

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