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Zwentibold (Zventibold, Zwentibald, Swentiboldo, Sventibaldo, Sanderbald; – 13 August 900), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Arnulf. In 895, his father granted him the Kingdom of Lotharingia, which he ruled until his death.

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Royalty.name: Zwentibold
Royalty.image: Zwentibold-king.png
Royalty.caption: Zwentibold dux Lotharingiae, from the Chronicon Universale, a 12th-century manuscript by Ekkehard of Aura
Royalty.succession: King of Lotharingia
Royalty.reign: 895–900
Royalty.predecessor: Arnulf of Carinthia
Royalty.successor: Louis the Child
Royalty.spouse: Oda (daughter of Duke Otto I of Saxony)
Royalty.house: Carolingian
Royalty.house type: Dynasty
Royalty.father: Arnulf of Carinthia
Royalty.mother: Vinburga
Royalty.death_date: 13 August 900
Royalty.burial_place: Susteren Abbey

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Commons category: Zwentibold
date of death: 0900-08-13
date of birth: 0870-01-01

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King of Lotharingia
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== Life == === Early life === Zwentibold was born during the long reign of his great-grandfather, King Louis the German in East Francia. He was the first-born, yet illegitimate, son of Arnulf of Carinthia and his concubine Vinburga. Zwentibold's father was an illegitimate son of Carloman of Bavaria, the eldest son of Louis the German. Zwentibold was named after his godfather Svatopluk, ruler of Great Moravia (Zwentibold being a Frankish transcription of Svatopluk). After Louis' death in 876, Carloman ruled over the East Frankish territory of Bavaria and ceded the adjacent marches of Pannonia and Carinthia (former Carantania) to his son Arnulf. In 887 Arnulf succeeded the incapable King Charles the Fat as king of East Francia.