A treatise opposing a king of this name provides a rare scriptural justification for trial by ordeal to uphold one in which a knight fetched a stone from a vat of boiling water. Hincmar of Rheims attacked a king with this name for nonsensically claiming that his wife got pregnant via sodomy with her brother. The Susanna Crystal may depict the attempt of a king of this name to annul his marriage to Theutberga and marry his concubine Waldrada. After being declared co-emperor by the (*) Ordinatio imperii, a man with this name led forces against his father at the Field of Lies in a rebellion sparked by the latter’s remarriage to Judith of Bavaria. A man of this name founded a kingdom that was partitioned in the Treaty of Meerssen (“MAIR-sun”) and later became the Duchy of Lorraine. For 10 points, give this name of a king of Middle Francia who, with Louis the German and Charles the Bald, signed the Treaty of Verdun. ■END■
ANSWER: Lothair [or Lothar; accept Lothair I or Lothair II; accept Lothar I or Lothar II; accept Lothair Crystal] (The first sentence refers to Hincmar’s De Divortio. The kingdom is Lotharingia.)
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