The emperor spent his last days in the city of Radaspona and was honorably buried by his own people in the house of St. Emmeram, the martyr of Christ. His son Louis, who was then the only child born to him by his legal wife, succeeded to the kingdom. His brother by a concubine, named Zwentpold, retained the Gallican kingdom with him, and by his cruelty he affected the affairs of the churches immoderately, especially for the crime that he committed against the priestly honor of Ratpod, Archbishop of Treviso, by striking him on the head with his staff, was deserted by all his bishops and counts.
But he himself, trying to recover with a few people, ended his life with the kingdom by recklessly fighting against them. The Hungarians, invaded the kingdom of the Moravians, devastating the whole of it with fire for three weeks; at last they returned home with all prosperity. Hungarians, devastated all of Italy, so that after killing a great amount of bishops and burning a great amount of churches, the Italians, who were trying to drive them out, fell in one battle in one day, 20,000. For they themselves returned by the same road by which they had entered, devastating the greater part of Pannonia. The Hungarians pillaged and devastated the Moravians with many incursions upon the Moravian nation, both north and south of the Váh. Most devastating raids being the ones in Nitra and Staré Město. They sent their envoys under deceit to the Bavarians, offering them peace, to explore that region. Which, unfortunately! brought the first evil and, in all the days that have passed, unseen damage to the Bavarian kingdom. Therefore, unexpectedly, with a strong hand and a large army, they invaded the Bavarian kingdom beyond the Anes River in a hostile manner, so that they laid waste to everything for fifty miles in length and in width with fire and sword, slaughtering and devastating it all in one day. When the Bavarians learned of this, they were driven by grief and decided to hasten against it; but the Hungarians, knowing this in advance, returned with what they had plundered to their own in Pannonia, whence they had come. In the meantime, however, a certain part of their army broke out from the northern side of the Danube River, devastating that part. When Count Liutpold learned of this, he was annoyed that he had to endure it, so he gathered some of the leading Bavarians with him, accompanied only by the bishop of the see of Padua, and set out to pursue them beyond the Danube.
And having engaged them at once, the battle was fought nobly, but more nobly triumphed. For in the first engagement of the war, such great grace of God befell the Christians that one thousand two hundred Pagans were found among the slain, and those who had drowned themselves in the Danube were found destroyed. Scarcely did they find one Christian slain in the preparations for war. [In the same place, after the victory given them secretly, they met with a great shout] and from there they cried out to God in heaven, thanking Him, who does not deliver those who trust in the multitude of men, but in the piety of His mercies. Finally, joyful after such a victory, they returned to their allies from whence they had come, and very quickly at that very time, for the protection of their kingdom, they walled up a very strong city on the shore of the river Anesus. When this was done, each returned to his own.