Settipani's "La prehistoire des Capetiens" calls him Louis III, living 905. Weis' "Ancestral Roots . . ." (141A:17), (141B:18). He succeeded his father as king of Provence. In 900, in the midst of a period of political instability, the nobles of northwest Italy, led by ADALBERT, MARQUIS OF IVREA, elected Louis as their king. He went to Rome, where he was also crowned as Emperor. He lost his support and gave up the Italian throne to BERENGER I of Friuli in 902. He tried again to take the throne in 905, but BERENGER captured him and had him blinded.