War had been his passion.
In this respect also his whole nature seemed to be changed, and nothing but the most dire necessity could lead him to an appeal to arms.

The princess Anne appears to have been a sincere Christian, and to have exerted the most salutary influence upon the mind of her husband.

In the midst of these great measures of reform, sudden sickness seized Vlademer in his palace, and he died, in the year 1015, so unexpectedly that he appointed no successor.

His death caused universal lamentations, and thousands crowded to the church of Notre Dame, to take a last look of their beloved sovereign, whose body reposed there for a time in state, in a marble coffin.

The remains were then deposited by the side of his last wife, the Christian princess Anne, who had died a few years before.