Gunderic, King of Burgundy

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Gundioc King of the Burgundians
• Birth: 394, Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France

Gunderic married Caratene Agrippina about 444 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France. Caratene (daughter of Ricimer, Chieftain of The Suevi and Alypia, Princess of West Rome) was born in 452 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 6 Sep 486 in Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Basina Thuringia. Basina was born in 438 in Thüringen,Germany; died in 470 in Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gundobad married Caretena about 464 in Burgundy, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Caretena was born about 425 in Bourgogne, France; died on 6 Sep 506 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theodelinde married Sigobert I "The Lame", King of the Ripuarian Franks in 474. Sigobert (son of Childebert, King of the Cologne Franks I and Amalaberge) was born in 445 in Cologne, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died in 509 in Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Arevagni. Arevagni was born about 475 in Germany; died about 495 in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clotilde married Clovis I "The Great", King of the Franks in 493 in Rheims,Marne,Loire-Atlantique,France. Clovis (son of Childeric, King of the Salian Franks I and II Basina) was born on 25 Dec 465 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 27 Nov 511 in St Pierre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Wacho was the father of Albion and the king preceding him. His daughter, Wisigard, was married to King Theudebert I of Austrasia.

Family/Spouse: of the Gepidae Ostragotha, Queen of Gepidae. Ostragotha (daughter of King of the Gepidae Elemund) was born about 494 in Gepidea, Liguria, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chlothar married Ingund about 530. Ingund (daughter of Baderic, Co-King of the Thuringii and Amalberga) was born about 499 in Thueringen, Germany; died on 13 Aug 567; was buried in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chlothar married Aregund about 533. Aregund (daughter of Baderic, Co-King of the Thuringii and Amalberga) was born about 515 in Gotha, Gotha, Thüringen, Germany; died on 13 Aug 587 in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France; was buried in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chlothar married Radegonde, Princess of Thuringia in 538. Radegonde (daughter of Bertachar, Co-King of the Thuringii and Amalberga) was born on 13 Aug 510 in Marne, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France; died on 13 Aug 587 in Fleury Abbey, Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France; was buried in Poitiers, Departement de la Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clotilde married Amalaric, King of the Visigoths II in 511 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. Amalaric (son of Alaric, King of the Visigoths II and Theodegotha) was born in 492 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; died in 531 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Munderic married Arthemia about 534 in Germany. Arthemia (daughter of Florentinus, Bishop of Geneva and Artémia) was born in 525 in Perthois, Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 559 in Vitry, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dode married Tonantius Clarissimus Ferreolus, Senator of Narbonne and Rodez about 520. Tonantius (son of Tonantius Ferreolus, Gallo-Roman Senator of Narbonne II and Industrie de Reims) was born in 485 in Narbonne, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died on 11 Oct 528 in Rodez, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Waldrada Langobardic Princess of the Lombards Dutchess of Bavaria
• Death: 26 Jun 572, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France

Waldrada married Garibald Agilofinges, Duke of Bavaria I in 555. Garibald (son of Agivald, Duke of Lower Bavaria and Wisigarda de Lombardy) was born in 540 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bayern, Germany,; died in 591 in Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sigebert married Brunhilda, Queen of the Visigoths in 567 in Metz, Alsace, Lorraine, France. Brunhilda (daughter of Athanagild, King of Hispania and Septimania and Goiswintha) was born in 543 in Cologne, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died in 613 in Reneve, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Veneranda. Veneranda was born about 532 in Burgundy, France; died about 563 in Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Chilperic King of Neustria
• Death: 27 Sep 584, St. Vincent Abbey, Forêt De Chelles, Oise, Picardie, France

Chilperic married Fredegund de Earlin in 568 in France. Fredegund was born in 546 in Soissons, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France; died on 8 Dec 597 in St Vincent Abbey, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chilperic married Queen of the Franks Galswintha in 567 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. Galswintha (daughter of Athanagild, King of Hispania and Septimania and Goiswintha) was born about 540 in Spain; died in 568 in Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chilperic married Fredegund in 568 in France. Fredegund was born in 546 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 8 Dec 597 in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Leovigildo married Theodosia about 550 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Theodosia (daughter of Severiano, Count of Cartagena and Theodora Amales) was born about 530 in Cartagena, Murcia, Murcia, Spain; died in 567 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Palatina. Palatina (daughter of Maurilion and Radegund) was born about 547 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 599 in Tongres, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 523, Sachsen, Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany
• Death: 11 Oct 570, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Ansbertus married Blithilde about 539 in Vitry, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Blithilde (daughter of Lothar) was born about 524 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died in 580 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gertrude married Carloman, Mayor of the Palace about 579 in Belgium. Carloman (son of Sigebert I "The Lame", King of Austrasia and Brunhilda, Queen of the Visigoths) was born in 550 in Landen, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; died on 21 Feb 645 in Herstal, Liege, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Romilde Agilofinges Duchess Friuli
• Name: Romilde von Bayern

Family/Spouse: Gisulph II de Frioul. Gisulph (son of Grasulf I de Frioul and Romhilde de Austrasie) was born in 565 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died in Nov 600 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gisulf von Friaul, II. Gisulf (son of Grasulf I von Friaul) was born in 565 in Ville, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died in 611. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Tassilon I Agilofinges

Tassilo married Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards about 584 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bayern, Germany. Theodelinda was born about 560 in Asti, Asti, Piemonte, Italy; died in 628 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carloman married Gertrude Agilofinges about 579 in Belgium. Gertrude (daughter of Garibald Agilofinges, Duke of Bavaria I and Waldrada, Princess of the Lombards) was born in 556 in Landen, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; died on 17 Mar 648 in Tréves, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Childebert married Faileuba about 586 in Austrasia, France. Faileuba (daughter of Leovigildo, King of Hispania Septimania and Galicia and Theodosia) was born in 563 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 1 Mar 596 in Metz, Nievre, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Saint-Germain-des-Prés Church

Chlothar married Haldetrude de Burgundy about 601 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Haldetrude (daughter of Richemeres and Gertrudis) was born in 586 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 618 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clothaire married Queen of the Franks Bertrude in 601 in Metz, Moselle, France. Bertrude (daughter of Ega, Mayor of the Palace and Gerberga) was born about 582 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 618 in Saint Germain, Prez Ardennes Champagne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clothaire married Queen of the Franks Sichilde D'Ardennes in 622 in France. Sichilde (daughter of Brunulphe, Count of Ardennes II) was born about 590 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 627 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clothaire married Haldetrude about 598 in France. Haldetrude (daughter of Ricimer and Garitrude, Abbess of Hamage) was born in 575 in Marne, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 604 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried in St Pierre, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Faileuba married Childebert, King of Burgundy II about 586 in Austrasia, France. Childebert (son of Sigebert I "The Lame", King of Austrasia and Brunhilda, Queen of the Visigoths) was born in 570 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 5 Dec 595 in St Etienne, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

II married Oda de Savoy about 578 in Austrasia. Oda (daughter of Theodemir, King of Galicia and Radegonde, Princess of Thuringia) was born in 562 in France; died on 28 Oct 640 in Sachsen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Alsace, Lorraine, France

Family/Spouse: Gertrudis, Duchess of Franconia. Gertrudis was born in 540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Garitrude married Ricimer in 563 in Franconia, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Ricimer (son of Betton, Duke of Franconia and Count of Orleans and Austregilde) was born in 555 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 607 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pepin married Itta about 612 in Landen, Liege, Belgium. Itta (daughter of Arnoldus, Bishop of Metz) was born in 592 in Landen, Liege, Belgium; died on 8 May 652; was buried in Nivelles, Walloon, Brabant, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lambert I de Haspengau. Lambert (son of Chrodobertus I de Haspengau and Gelsnod de Bavaria) was born in 595 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France; died in 651 in Bourgogne, Meuse, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Geila married Garibald Agiofinges, Duke of Bavaria II in 601 in Bavaria, Germany. Garibald (son of Tassilo Agilofinges, King of Bavaria I and Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards) was born in 585 in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany; died in 625 in Bavaria, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Garibald married Geila von Friuli in 601 in Bavaria, Germany. Geila (daughter of Gisulf von Friaul, II and Romilde Agilofinges) was born in 585 in Friuli, Germany; died in 673 in Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bilichildes. Bilichildes was born in Moselle, Lorraine, France; died in Austrasia, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theuderic married Ermenberge in 606 in Liege, Belgium. Ermenberge was born about 590 in Metz, Nievre, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Apr 602, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Dagobert married Nanthild de Neustria in 629 in France. Nanthild was born about 610 in Normandy, France; died in 642 in Landry, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France; was buried in Saint Denis Basilica, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dagobert married Ragentrude about 629 in France. Ragentrude was born in Apr 605 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died in 642 in Landry, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gisele II of Gascony. Gisele (daughter of of Gascony Amaud) was born in 607 in Gascony, Aquitaine, France; died in 632 in Blaye, Gironde, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Oda Duchess of Aquitaine

Oda married Boggis (Bertrand), Duke of Aquitaine in 645 in Aquitaine, France. Boggis (son of Charibert, King of the Franks II and Gisele II of Gascony) was born in 626 in Aquitaine, France; died in 688 in Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See Europsch Stammtafeln Bund I tafel 2.

Arnulf married Dode (Clothilde) de Savoy about 606 in Heristal, Austrasia, France. Dode was born about 585 in Swabia, Bayern, Germany; died on 28 Oct 612 in Tréves, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Alsace, Lorraine, France

Ega married Gerberga about 581 in France. Gerberga (daughter of Ricimer and Garitrude, Abbess of Hamage) was born about 565 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France; died in 646 in Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Abbey Nivelles, Brabant, Belgium

Itta married Pepin I "The Old", Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia about 612 in Landen, Liege, Belgium. Pepin (son of Carloman, Mayor of the Palace and Gertrude Agilofinges) was born about 580 in Landen, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; died on 27 Feb 640 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium; was buried in 639 in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Alsace, Lorraine, France

Gerberga married Ega, Mayor of the Palace about 581 in France. Ega (son of Erchenaud and Gertrudis, Duchess of Franconia) was born in 560 in Lorraine, France; died in 628 in Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Haldetrude married Clothaire, King of the Meroving II about 598 in France. Clothaire (son of Chilperic, King of Soissons I and Fredegund) was born in May 584 in Soissons, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France; was christened in 591 in Nauterre, France; died on 28 Sep 629 in St Vincent Abbey, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Beggue de Landen

Notes:

The Calendar of the Saints says after her husband was killed hunting she decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome. On returning home she founded seven churches at Ardenne of the Meuse. She also set up an abbey at the same place where she died. 17 Dec is her feast day.

Begga married Ansegisel, Bishop of Metz in 634 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Ansegisel (son of Arnulf de Heristal, Bishop of Metz and Dode (Clothilde) de Savoy) was born in 602 in Ansgise, North Rhine-Westphalia, Austrasia, France; died on 16 Dec 685 in Murdered at Andene Monastery, Siegburg, France; was buried in Andenne, Namur, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Chrodobertus II (Robert) Count of Haspengau
• Name: Robert
• Name: Rodobertus
• Birth: Abt 620
• Death: Aft Oct 678

Chrodobertus married Doda De Poitiers about 664 in Wormsgau, Germany. Doda was born before 659 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 12 Sep 678 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gunza. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theodon married Régintrude Meroving about 670 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Régintrude (daughter of Dagobert, King of Austrasia I and Ragentrude) was born in 638 in Metz, Nievre, Bourgogne, France; died about 700 in Alia, Palermo, Sicilia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: King of Kent Eadbald. Eadbald died in 640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clovis married Bathildis, Abbess de Chelles in 649 in france. Bathildis was born in 635 in Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 30 Jan 680 in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sigebert married Chimnechild of Burgundy before 650 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Chimnechild (daughter of Bodilon, Count of Poitiers and Sigrada) was born in 632 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 1 Apr 686 in Egerndach, Traunstein, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ragentrude
• Birth: 630, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Régintrude married Theodon Agilofinges, Duke of Bavaria II about 670 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Theodon (son of Garibald Agiofinges, Duke of Bavaria II and Geila von Friuli) was born in 630 in Schwaben, Chemnitzer Land, Sachsen, Germany; died on 11 Dec 716 in Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Boggis

Boggis married Oda in 645 in Aquitaine, France. Oda (daughter of Clothaire, King of the Meroving II and Queen of the Franks Sichilde D'Ardennes) was born in Apr 619 in Aquitaine, France; died in 720. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Eudes

Family/Spouse: Valtrude (Waltraud). Valtrude was born in 642 in Verdun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died in 688 in Verdun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eudes married Adela von Echternach in 678 in Alsace, France. Adela was born in 650 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 24 Dec 688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ansegisel married Begga in 634 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Begga (daughter of Pepin I "The Old", Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and Itta) was born on 2 Jun 613 in Landen, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; died on 17 Dec 693 in Convent at Andenne, Namur, Belgium; was buried in Andenne, Namur, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clodulphe married Sigrada of SoissonsWittenberg, Sachsen Wittenberg, Thueringen, Germany. Sigrada was born about 625 in Austrasia, France; died in 677 in Trèves, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, Frankrijk. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Alsace, Lorraine, France

Died:
Alsace, Lorraine, France

Erchembaldus married Leudefindis about 519 in France. Leudefindis was born in 594 in of France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Daughter Leutharius. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Daughter Of Leutharius. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertrude married Clothaire, King of the Meroving II in 601 in Metz, Moselle, France. Clothaire (son of Chilperic, King of Soissons I and Fredegund) was born in May 584 in Soissons, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France; was christened in 591 in Nauterre, France; died on 28 Sep 629 in St Vincent Abbey, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Apr 602, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Dagobert married Nanthild de Neustria in 629 in France. Nanthild was born about 610 in Normandy, France; died in 642 in Landry, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France; was buried in Saint Denis Basilica, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dagobert married Ragentrude about 629 in France. Ragentrude was born in Apr 605 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died in 642 in Landry, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pepin married Plectrude on 13 May 706 in Belgium. Plectrude was born about 687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pepin married Alpaida (Chalpaida) about 687. Alpaida was born in 654 in Liège, Liege, Belgium; died in 714 in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium; was buried in Orp-Jauche, Nivelles, Brabant, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Leutwinus de Treves, Count of Treves. Leutwinus (son of Guerin Warinus, Count of Poitiers and Count of Paris and Kunza de Metz) was born in 665 in Tréves, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died on 29 Sep 722 in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; was buried in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Chrotlind. Chrotlind (daughter of Theuderic, King of Neustria King of the Franks III and Amalaberge) was born in 670 in Neustria, France; died in 695 in Orplegrandmonast, Brabant, Vosges, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Regina. Regina was born in 652 in Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany; died in 709 in Ypres, Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Houching, Duke of Alemania. Houching (son of Godefrey Agilofinges and Regina) was born in 665 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bayern, Germany; died in 709 in Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said by the venerable Bede to be the first English King to order the
destruction of Idols throughout his kingdom. He also ordered everyone to
observe Lenten fasts.

Family/Spouse: of East-Anglia, Nun in Gaul Sexburga. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Theuderic King of Franks III

Family/Spouse: Amalaberge. Amalaberge was born in 640 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium; died in 693 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Clotilda de Heristal. Clotilda was born in 654 in Roches, Allier, Auvergne, France; died in 692 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bereswinda
• Name: Berswinde de Metz

Notes:

Some sources, e.g. Turton's "Plantagenet Ancestry," show her as a daughter of Sigebert III, King of Austrasia (RIN 3709), but there has never been a descent from the Merovingian kings documented to the satisfaction of serious genealogists, and this is among those no longer accepted.

Settipani's "La prehistoire de Capetiens" p.106 says (in French): "In the 12th century, the Chronicle of Ebbersheim affirmed that Bereswinda, niece of St. Leger of Autun, wife of the duke of Alsace Adalric Ethic, was the sister of a queen. Chronologically, the queen in question, who cannot be identified as Baldechildis, of humble Saxon origin, nor as Bilichildis, daughter of king Sigebert III, could well be Chimnechildis [wife of Sigebert III and of unkown origin]."

Berswinda married Eticho, Duke of Alsace I about 672 in France. Eticho (son of Major Domo of Neustria Lendisius and Gerberge) was born in 640 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 20 Feb 690 in Lorraine, Alsace, France; was buried in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mechtilde. Mechtilde (daughter of Domnall Breac, King of Scotland I) was born about 652; died in 676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Eudes

Family/Spouse: Valtrude (Waltraud). Valtrude was born in 642 in Verdun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died in 688 in Verdun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eudes married Adela von Echternach in 678 in Alsace, France. Adela was born in 650 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 24 Dec 688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Gerlinde
• Name: Gerlindis Odos von PFALZEL
• Birth: Abt 679, France

Gerlinde married Adalbert, 2nd Duke de Alsace about 692 in Alsace, France. Adalbert (son of Eticho, Duke of Alsace I and Berswinda de Alsace) was born on 12 May 675 in Obernai, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 5 Dec 741 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Kunza married Guerin Warinus, Count of Poitiers and Count of Paris about 661 in Poitiers, France. Guerin (son of Bodilon, Count of Poitiers and Sigrada) was born in 638 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died in 677 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gerberge. Gerberge was born in 625. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sigrada married Bodilon, Count of Poitiers in 643 in France. Bodilon (son of II Garnier and Adele) was born in 615 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died in 643 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clovis married Bathildis, Abbess de Chelles in 649 in france. Bathildis was born in 635 in Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 30 Jan 680 in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sigebert married Chimnechild of Burgundy before 650 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Chimnechild (daughter of Bodilon, Count of Poitiers and Sigrada) was born in 632 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 1 Apr 686 in Egerndach, Traunstein, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ragentrude
• Birth: 630, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Régintrude married Theodon Agilofinges, Duke of Bavaria II about 670 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Theodon (son of Garibald Agiofinges, Duke of Bavaria II and Geila von Friuli) was born in 630 in Schwaben, Chemnitzer Land, Sachsen, Germany; died on 11 Dec 716 in Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Childebrande married Emma about 704 in of Heristal, Liege, Belgium. Emma was born about 683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rolande. Rolande was born about 691 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died in 750 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Charles "The Hammer" Martel

Notes:

Born about 688; died at Quierzy on the Oise, 21 October, 741. He was the natural son of Pepin of Herstal and a woman named Alpa de or Chalpa de Pepin, who in 714, had outlived his two legitimate sons, Drogon and Grimoald, and to Theodoald, a son of the latter and then only six years old, fell the burdensome inheritance of the French monarchy. Charles, who was then twenty-six, was not excluded from the succession on account of his birth, Theodoald himself being the son of a concubine, but through the influence of Plectrude, Theodoald's grandmother, who wished the power invested in her own descendants exclusively. To prevent any opposition from Charles she had him cast into prison and, having established herself at Cologne, assumed the guardianship of her grandson. But the different nations whom the strong hand of Pepin of Herstal had held in subjections, shook off the yoke of oppression as soon as they saw that it was with a woman they had to deal. Neustria gave the signal for revolt (715), Theodoald was beaten in the forest of Cuise and, led by Raginfrid, mayor of the palace, the enemy advanced as far as the Meuse. The Frisians flew to arms and, headed by their duke, Ratbod, destroyed the Christian mission and entered into a confederacy with the Neustrians. The Saxons came and devastated the country of the Hattuarians, and even in Austrasia there was a certain faction that chafed under the government of a woman and child. At this juncture Charles escaped from prison and put himself at the head of the national party of Austrasia. At first he was unfortunate. He was defeated by Ratbod near Cologne in 716, and the Neustrians forced Plectrude to acknowledge as king Chilperic, the son of Childeric II, having taken this Merovingian from the seclusion of the cloister, where he lived the name of Daniel. But Charles was quick to take revenge. He surprised and conquered the Neustrians at Amblave near Malmay (716), defeated them a second time at Vincy near Cambrai (21 March, 717), and pursued them as far as Paris. Then retracing his steps, he came to Cologne and compelled Plectrude to surrender her power and turn over to him the wealth of his father, Pepin. In order to give his recently acquired authority a semblance of legitimacy, he proclaimed the Merovingian Clotaire IV King of Austrasia, reserving for himself the title of Mayor of the Palace. It was about this time that Charles banished Rigobert, the Bishop of Reims, who had opposed him, appointing in his stead the warlike and unpriestly Milon, who was already Archbishop of Trier. The ensuing years were full of strife. Eager to chastise the Saxons who had invaded Austrasia, Charles in the year 718 laid waste their country to the banks of the Weser. In 719 Ratbod died, and Charles seized Western Friesland without any great resistance on the part of the Frisians, who had taken possession of it on the death of Pepin. The Neustrians, always a menace, had joined forces with the people of Aquitaine, but Charles hacked their army to pieces at Soissons. After this defeat they realized the necessity of surrendering, and the death of King Clotaire IV, whom Charles had placed on the throne but two years previously, facilitated reconciliation of the two great fractions of the Frankish Empire. Charles acknowledged Chilperic as head of the entire monarchy, while on their side, the Neustrians and Aquitainians endorsed the authority of Charles; but, when Chilperic died, the following year (720) Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Thierry IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737. A second expedition against the Saxons in 720 and the definitive submission of Raginfrid, who had been left the county of Angers (724), re-established the Frankish Monarchy as it had been under Pepin of Herstal, and closed the first series of Charles Martel's struggles. The next six years were devoted almost exclusively to the confirming of the Frankish authority over the dependent Germanic tribes. In 725 and 728 Charles went into Bavaria, where the Agilolfing dukes had gradually rendered themselves independent, and re-established Frankish suzerainty. He also brought thence the Princess Suanehilde, who seems to have become his mistress. In 730 he marched against Lantfrid, Duke of the Alemanna, whom he likewise brought into subjection, and thus Southern Germany once more became part of the Frankish Empire, as had Northern Germany during the first years of the reign. But at the extremity of the empire a dreadful storm was gathering. For several years the Moslems of Spain had been threatening Gaul. Banished thence in 721 by Duke Eudes, they had returned in 725 and penetrated as far as Burgundy, where they had destroyed Autun. Duke Eudes, unable to resist them, at length contented himself by negotiating with them, and to Othmar, one of their chiefs, he gave the hand of his daughter But this compromising alliance brought him into disfavor with Charles, who defeated him in 731, and the death of Othmar that same year again left Eudes at the mercy of Moslem enterprise. In 732 Abd-er-Rahman, Governor of Spain, crossed the Pyrenees at the head of an immense army, overcame Duke Eudes, and advanced as far as the Loire, pillaging and burning as he went. In October, 732, Charles met Abd-er-Rahman outside of Tours and defeated and slew him in a battle (the Battle of Poitiers) which must ever remain one of the great events in the history of the world, as upon its issue depended whether Christian Civilization should continue or Islam prevail throughout Europe. It was this battle, it is said, that gave Charles his name, Martel (Tudites) "The Hammer", because of the merciless way in which he smote the enemy. The remainder of Charles Martel's reign was an uninterrupted series of triumphant combats. In 733-734 he suppressed the rebellion instigated by the Frisian duke, Bobo, who was slain in battle, and definitively subdued Friesland, which finally adopted Christianity. In 735, after the death of Eudes, Charles entered Aquitaine, quelled the revolt of Hatto and Hunold, sons of the deceased duke, and left the duchy to Hunold, to be held in fief (736). He then banished the Moslems from Arles and Avignon, defeated their army on the River Berre near Narbonne, and in 739 checked an uprising in Provence, the rebels being under the leadership of Maurontus. So great was Charles' power during the last years of his reign that he did not take the trouble to appoint a successor to King Thierry IV, who died in 737, but assumed full authority himself, governing without legal right. About a year before Charles died, Pope Gregory III, threatened by Luitprand, King of Lombardy, asked his help. Now Charles was Luitprand's ally because the latter had promised to assist him in the late war against the Moslems of Provence, and, moreover, the Frankish king may have already suffered from the malady that was to carry him off two reasons that are surely sufficient to account for the fact that the pope's envoys departed without gaining the object of their errand. However, it would seem that, according to the terms of a public act published by Charlemagne, Charles had, at least in principle, agreed to defend the Roman Church, and death alone must have prevented him from fulfilling this agreement. The reign, which in the beginning was so full of bloody conflicts and later of such incessant strife, would have been an impossibility had not Charles procured means sufficient to attract and compensate his partisans. For this purpose he conceived the idea of giving them the usufruct of a great many ecclesiastical lands, and this spoliation is what is referred to as the secularization by Charles Martel. It was an expedient that could be excused without, however, being justified, and it was pardoned to a certain extent by the amnesty granted at the Council of Lestines, held under the sons of Charles Martel in 743. It must also be remembered that the Church remained the legal owner of the lands thus alienated. This spoliation and the conferring of the principal ecclesiastical dignities upon those who were either totally unworthy or else had naught but their military qualifications to recommend them as, for instance, the assignment of the Episcopal Sees of Reims of Reims and Trier to Milon were not calculated to endear Charles Martel to the clergy of his time. Therefore, in the ninth century Hincmar of Reims related the story of the vision with which St. Eucher was said to have been favored and which showed Charles in hell, to which he had been condemned for robbing the Church of its property. But notwithstanding the almost exclusively warlike character of his reign, Charles Martel was not indifferent to the superior interests of civilization and Christianity. Like Napoleon after the French Revolution, upon emerging from the years 715-719, Charles, who had not only tolerated but perpetrated many an act of violence against the Church, set about the establishment of social order and endeavored to restore the rights of the Catholic hierarchy. This explains the protection which in 723 he accorded St. Boniface (Winfrid), the great apostle of Germany, a protection all the more salutary as the saint himself explained to his old friend, Daniel of Winchester, that without it he could neither administer his church, defend his clergy, nor prevent idolatry. Hence Charles Martel shares, to a certain degree, the glory and merit of Boniface's great work of civilization. He died after having divided the Frankish Empire, as a patrimony between his two sons, Carloman and Pepin. GODEFROID KURTH Transcribed by Michael C. Tinkler The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume III Copyright 1908 by Robert Appleton Company

Charles married Rotrude de Treves about 710. Rotrude (daughter of Leutwinus de Treves, Count of Treves and Willigarde d'Agilolfinges) was born in Apr 690 in Tréves, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 22 Oct 724 in Cressy Sur, Oise, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Swanahild d'Agilolfinges about 725 in Liege, Belgium. Swanahild (daughter of III Grimaldo and Viletrude) was born in 687 in Bavaria; died on 22 Oct 742 in Quierzy sur, Aisne, Picardie, France; was buried in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ruodhaid, Princess Morvois of Austrasia. Ruodhaid (daughter of Charotrude de Treves) was born in 718 in Spoleto, Perugia, Umbria, Italy; died in 785 in Brosse, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-De-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Heribert de Laon
• Name: Heribert xxxx
• Death: 701/780

Family/Spouse: Gisele of Aquitaine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Rotrude Chortude Duchess of Austrasia
• Death: 22 Oct 741, Cressy Sur, Oise, Picardie, France

Notes:

According to Frankish tradition, she was the daughter of Saint Leutwinus, son of Gunza and one Count Warinus, himself the son of Sigrada and Bodilan. Her mother, whose name was not known, was said to be the daughter of Doda and Rodobertus, son of Lantbertus I.

Rotrude married Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace about 710. Charles (son of Pepin d'Heristal, II and Alpaida (Chalpaida)) was born on 23 Aug 676 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium; died on 22 Oct 741 in Quierzy-sur-Oise, Aisne, Picardie, France; was buried in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Robert (Rutpert) Duke of Neustria
• Name: Robert Rupert I Duke of Haspengau Count of Hesbaye Wormsgau
• Name: Rupert I
• Name: Rutpert I de Haspengouw

Robert married Wiliswint von Wormsgau about 709 in Germany. Wiliswint (daughter of Adelhelm von Wormsgau and Guein) was born in 690 in Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died in 764 in Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hersuinda. Hersuinda (daughter of Theodon Agilofinges, Duke of Bavaria II and Régintrude Meroving) was born in 672 in Germay, Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 730 in Ringelheim, Salzgitter, Niedersachsen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hnebi married Hersuinde about 725 in Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany. Hersuinde was born about 715 in Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lambert, Count of Hesbaye. Lambert (son of Chrodobertus de Haspengau, Count of Haspengau) was born about 682 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 2 Oct 741 in Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Adalbert de Alsace

Adalbert married Gerlinde (Gerlindis), Princess of Eticonides about 692 in Alsace, France. Gerlinde (daughter of Eudes I (Odo) "The Grand", Duke of Aquitaine and Adela von Echternach) was born in 679 in Pfalzel, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died in 773 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Gerlinde
• Name: Gerlindis Odos von PFALZEL
• Birth: Abt 679, France

Gerlinde married Adalbert, 2nd Duke de Alsace about 692 in Alsace, France. Adalbert (son of Eticho, Duke of Alsace I and Berswinda de Alsace) was born on 12 May 675 in Obernai, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 5 Dec 741 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

I married Edith about 739. Edith was born about 719 in Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adele. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Willigarde d'Agilolfinges. Willigarde (daughter of Chrodobertus de Haspengau, Count of Haspengau and Gunza) was born about 666 in Bavaria, Germany; died in 732 in Treves, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Adalric Duke of Alsace
• Name: Adalrich Liuthericus
• Name: Ethicus (Adalricus) Ethicon Duke of Alsatia

Notes:

Buried:
Hohenburg Abbey

Eticho married Berswinda de Alsace about 672 in France. Berswinda (daughter of Sigebert, King of Austrasia III and Chimnechild of Burgundy) was born about Apr 649 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 3 Jan 700 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guerin married Kunza de Metz about 661 in Poitiers, France. Kunza (daughter of Clodulphe de Metz, Duke Of Austrasia and Sigrada of Soissons) was born in 636 in Poitiers, Bourgogne, France; died in 675 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chimnechild married Sigebert, King of Austrasia III before 650 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Sigebert (son of Dagobert, King of Austrasia I and Ragentrude) was born on 31 Jan 630 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 1 Feb 656 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Theuderic King of Franks III

Family/Spouse: Amalaberge. Amalaberge was born in 640 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium; died in 693 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Clotilda de Heristal. Clotilda was born in 654 in Roches, Allier, Auvergne, France; died in 692 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bereswinda
• Name: Berswinde de Metz

Notes:

Some sources, e.g. Turton's "Plantagenet Ancestry," show her as a daughter of Sigebert III, King of Austrasia (RIN 3709), but there has never been a descent from the Merovingian kings documented to the satisfaction of serious genealogists, and this is among those no longer accepted.

Settipani's "La prehistoire de Capetiens" p.106 says (in French): "In the 12th century, the Chronicle of Ebbersheim affirmed that Bereswinda, niece of St. Leger of Autun, wife of the duke of Alsace Adalric Ethic, was the sister of a queen. Chronologically, the queen in question, who cannot be identified as Baldechildis, of humble Saxon origin, nor as Bilichildis, daughter of king Sigebert III, could well be Chimnechildis [wife of Sigebert III and of unkown origin]."

Berswinda married Eticho, Duke of Alsace I about 672 in France. Eticho (son of Major Domo of Neustria Lendisius and Gerberge) was born in 640 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 20 Feb 690 in Lorraine, Alsace, France; was buried in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mechtilde. Mechtilde (daughter of Domnall Breac, King of Scotland I) was born about 652; died in 676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Regina. Regina was born in 652 in Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany; died in 709 in Ypres, Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Houching, Duke of Alemania. Houching (son of Godefrey Agilofinges and Regina) was born in 665 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bayern, Germany; died in 709 in Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Carloman

Carloman married Bertha about 735 in Liege, Belgium. Bertha (daughter of Desiderius) was born about 716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mayor of the Palace of the whole Frankish kingdom (both Austrasia and Neustria), and later King of the Franks; born 714; died at St. Denis, 24 September, 768. He was the son of Charles Martel. Pepin and his older brother Carloman were taught by the monks of St. Denis, and the impressions received during their monastic education had a controlling influence upon the relations of both princes to the Church. When the father died in 741 the two brothers began to reign jointly but not without strong opposition, for Griffon, the son of Charles Martel and the Bavarian Sonnichilde, demanded a share in the government. Moreover, the Duke of the Aquitanians and the Duke of the Alamannians thought this a favorable opportunity to throw off the Frankish supremacy. The young kings were repeatedly involved in war, but all their opponents, including the Bavarians and Saxons, were defeated and the unity of the kingdom re-established. As early as 741 Carloman had entered upon his epoch-making relations with St. Boniface, to whom was now opened a new field of labor, the reformation of the Frankish Church. On 21 April, 742, Boniface was present at a Frankish synod presided over by Carloman at which important reforms were decreed. As in the Frankish realm the unity of the kingdom was essentially connected with the person of the king, Carloman to secure this unity raised the Merovingian Childeric to the throne (743). In 747 he resolved to enter a monastery. The danger, which up to this time had threatened the unity of the kingdom from the division of power between the two brothers, was removed, and at the same time the way was prepared for the deposing of the last Merovingian and for the crowning of Pepin. The latter put down the renewed revolt led by his step-brother Griffon, and succeeded in completely restoring the boundaries of the kingdom. Pepin now addressed to the Pope the suggestive question: In regard to the kings o the Franks who no longer possess the royal power, is this state of things proper? Hard pressed by the Lombards, Pope Zacharias welcomed this advance of the Franks which aimed at ending an intolerable condition of things, and at laying the constitutional foundations for the exercise of the royal power. The pope replied that such a state of things was not proper. After this decision the place Pepin desired to occupy was declared vacant. The crown was given him not by the pope but by the Franks. According to the ancient custom Pepin was then elected king and soon after this was anointed by Boniface. This consecration of the new kingdom by the head of the Church was intended to remove any doubt as to its legitimacy. On the contrary, the consciousness of having saved the Christian world from the Saracens produced, among the Franks, the feeling that their kingdom owed its authority directly to God. Still this external cooperation of the pope in the transfer of the kingdom to the Carolingians would necessarily enhance the importance of the Church. The relations between the two controlling powers of Christendom now rapidly developed. It was soon evident to what extent the alliance between Church and State was to check the decline of ecclesiastical and civil life; it made possible the conversion of the still heathen German tribes, and when that was accomplished provided an opportunity for both Church and State to recruit strength and to grow. Ecclesiastical, political, and economic developments had made the popes lords of the ducatus Romanus. They laid before Pepin their claims to the central provinces of Italy, which had belonged to them before Liutprand's conquest. When Stephen II had a conference with King Pepin at Ponthion in January, 754, the pope implored his assistance against his oppressor the Lombard King Aistulf, and begged for the same protection for the prerogatives of St. Peter which the Byzantine exarchs had extended to them, to which the king agreed, and in the charter establishing the States of the Church, soon after given at Quiercy, he promised to restore these prerogatives. The Frankish king received the title of the former representative of the Byzantine Empire in Italy, i.e. "Patricius", and was also assigned the duty of protecting the privileges of the Holy See. When Stephen II performed the ceremony of anointing Pepin and his son at St. Denis, it was St. Peter who was regarded as the mystical giver of the secular power, but the emphasis thus laid upon the religious character of political law left vague the legal relations between pope and king. After the acknowledgment of his territorial claims the pope was in reality a ruling sovereign, but he had placed himself under the protection of the Frankish ruler and had sworn that he and his people would be true to the king. Thus his sovereignty was limited from the very start as regards what was external to his domain. The connection between Rome and the Frankish kingdom involved Pepin during the years 754-56 in war with the Lombard King Aistulf, who was forced to return to the Church the territory he had illegally held. Pepin's commanding position in the world of his time was permanently secured when he took Septimania from the Arabs. Another particularly important act was his renewed overthrow of the rebellion in Aquitaine which was once more made a part of the kingdom. He was not so fortunate in his campaigns against the Saxons and Bavarians. He could do no more than repeatedly attempt to protect the boundaries of the kingdom against the incessantly restless Saxons. Bavaria remained an entirely independent State and advanced in civilization under Duke Tassilo. Pepin's activity in war was accompanied by a widely extended activity in the internal affairs of the Frankish kingdom, his main object being the reform of legislation and internal affairs, especially of ecclesiastical conditions. He continued the ecclesiastical reforms commenced by St. Boniface. In doing this Pepin demanded an unlimited authority over the Church. He himself wished to be the leader of the reforms. However, although St. Boniface changed nothing by his reformatory labors in the ecclesiastico-political relations that had developed in the Frankish kingdom upon the basis of the Germanic conception of the State, nevertheless he had placed the purified and united Frankish Church more definitely under the control of the papal see than had hitherto been the case. From the time of St. Boniface the Church was more generally acknowledged by the Franks to be the mystical power appointed by God. When he deposed the last of the Merovingians Pepin was also obliged to acknowledge the increased authority of the Church by calling upon it for moral support. Consequently the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Frankish king over the Church of his country remained externally undiminished. Nevertheless by his life-work Pepin had powerfully aided the authority of the Church and with it the conception of ecclesiastical unity. He was buried at St. Denis where he died. He preserved the empire created by Clovis from the destruction that menaced it; he was able to overcome the great danger arising from social conditions that threatened the Frankish kingdom, by opposing to the unruly lay nobility the ecclesiastical aristocracy that had been strengthened by the general reform. When he died the means had been created by which his greater son could solve the problems of the empire. Pepin's policy marked out the tasks to which Charlemagne devoted himself: quieting the Saxons, the subjection of the duchies and lastly, the regulation of the ecclesiastical question and with it that of Italy. FRANZ KAMPERS Transcribed by Michael C. Tinkler The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XI Copyright 1911 by Robert Appleton Company

Pepin married Bertrada II de Laon in 740. Bertrada (daughter of Claribert de Laon, Count Laon I and Gisele of Aquitaine) was born on 2 Apr 720 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 12 Jun 783 in Choisy-au-Bac, Oise, Picardie, France; was buried in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Auda married Thierry (Theodoric), Count of Autun and Toulouse IV in 749 in Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. Thierry (son of V Sigebert) was born in 730 in Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died on 15 Dec 793 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France; was buried in Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bernard de Saint Quentin
• Birth: Abt 730, Liege, Belgium
• Death: Abt 784, France

Bernard married Gerberge de Laon about 768 in France. Gerberge (daughter of Claribert de Laon, Count Laon I and Gisele of Aquitaine) was born in 722 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 785 in Hornbach, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bertrada II

Bertrada married Pepin III "The Short", King of the Franks in 740. Pepin (son of Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace and Rotrude de Treves) was born in 715 in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany; died on 24 Sep 768 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France; was buried in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Laon

Gerberge married of Belgium Bernard de St. Quentin about 768 in France. Bernard (son of Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace and Ruodhaid, Princess Morvois of Austrasia) was born in 720 in Saint Quentin, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died in 809 in Querzy sur, Oise, Picardie, France; was buried in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: King of the Obotrites I Vislas. I was born after 700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lambert, Count and Lord of Hornbach; living 760-783.
Source: 'Royalty for Commoners', Roderick W. Stuart, 1993, p 149, 194, 235, 238

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guerin married Adalindis (Hadelinda) von Spoleto in 745 in Narbonne, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. Adalindis was born in 730 in Argenburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 28 Aug 787 in Aquitaine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Theuringbert de Wormsgau
• Name: Thuringbert de Hesbaye Count of Worms & Rheingau Duke of Hesbaye

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Hereswintha

Herswinde married Hnabi, Duke of Swabia in 735 in Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany. Hnabi (son of Houching, Duke of Allemania) was born in 709 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany; died in 788 in Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hnebi married Hersuinde about 725 in Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany. Hersuinde was born about 715 in Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Gerold, Duke of Swabia I about 756. Gerold (son of Bishop of Mayence Gerold, son of Gerold, Bishop of Mayence and Gerniud) was born in 720 in Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 30 Apr 779 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was buried in Lorsch, Bergstraßener Kreis, Hessen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cynegth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Robert (Rutpert) Duke of Neustria
• Name: Robert Rupert I Duke of Haspengau Count of Hesbaye Wormsgau
• Name: Rupert I
• Name: Rutpert I de Haspengouw

Robert married Wiliswint von Wormsgau about 709 in Germany. Wiliswint (daughter of Adelhelm von Wormsgau and Guein) was born in 690 in Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died in 764 in Worms, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Heribert de Laon
• Name: Heribert xxxx
• Death: 701/780

Family/Spouse: Gisele of Aquitaine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

I married Edith about 739. Edith was born about 719 in Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adele. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

II married Hiltrude in 764. Hiltrude was born in 744 in Upper Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Rotrude Chortude Duchess of Austrasia
• Death: 22 Oct 741, Cressy Sur, Oise, Picardie, France

Notes:

According to Frankish tradition, she was the daughter of Saint Leutwinus, son of Gunza and one Count Warinus, himself the son of Sigrada and Bodilan. Her mother, whose name was not known, was said to be the daughter of Doda and Rodobertus, son of Lantbertus I.

Rotrude married Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace about 710. Charles (son of Pepin d'Heristal, II and Alpaida (Chalpaida)) was born on 23 Aug 676 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium; died on 22 Oct 741 in Quierzy-sur-Oise, Aisne, Picardie, France; was buried in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Adalbert de Alsace

Adalbert married Gerlinde (Gerlindis), Princess of Eticonides about 692 in Alsace, France. Gerlinde (daughter of Eudes I (Odo) "The Grand", Duke of Aquitaine and Adela von Echternach) was born in 679 in Pfalzel, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died in 773 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Willigarde d'Agilolfinges. Willigarde (daughter of Chrodobertus de Haspengau, Count of Haspengau and Gunza) was born about 666 in Bavaria, Germany; died in 732 in Treves, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bereswinda
• Name: Berswinde de Metz

Notes:

Some sources, e.g. Turton's "Plantagenet Ancestry," show her as a daughter of Sigebert III, King of Austrasia (RIN 3709), but there has never been a descent from the Merovingian kings documented to the satisfaction of serious genealogists, and this is among those no longer accepted.

Settipani's "La prehistoire de Capetiens" p.106 says (in French): "In the 12th century, the Chronicle of Ebbersheim affirmed that Bereswinda, niece of St. Leger of Autun, wife of the duke of Alsace Adalric Ethic, was the sister of a queen. Chronologically, the queen in question, who cannot be identified as Baldechildis, of humble Saxon origin, nor as Bilichildis, daughter of king Sigebert III, could well be Chimnechildis [wife of Sigebert III and of unkown origin]."

Berswinda married Eticho, Duke of Alsace I about 672 in France. Eticho (son of Major Domo of Neustria Lendisius and Gerberge) was born in 640 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 20 Feb 690 in Lorraine, Alsace, France; was buried in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mechtilde. Mechtilde (daughter of Domnall Breac, King of Scotland I) was born about 652; died in 676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lambert, Count of Hesbaye. Lambert (son of Chrodobertus de Haspengau, Count of Haspengau) was born about 682 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 2 Oct 741 in Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hersuinda. Hersuinda (daughter of Theodon Agilofinges, Duke of Bavaria II and Régintrude Meroving) was born in 672 in Germay, Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 730 in Ringelheim, Salzgitter, Niedersachsen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rotrude married Gerard, Count of Paris I about 753 in Paris, Seine, France. Gerard was born about 733 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died in 779 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Aachen Cathedral

Family/Spouse: Himiltrude. Himiltrude was born in 742; died in 780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlemagne married Desiderata (Sibilla) (Bertha) in 768. Desiderata was born about 747. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlemagne married Hildegarde de Vintzau in 772. Hildegarde (daughter of Gerold, Duke of Swabia I and Emma von Vinzgau) was born on 2 Apr 757 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 30 Apr 783 in Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France; was buried in St Arnoul Abbey, Metz, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlemagne married Regina (Reginophychra) about 791. Regina was born about 770 in of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Fredalon about 781 in France. Fredalon was born about 755 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Baghdad, and secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory derives from Arthur Zuckerman's book, "A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900" (New York, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by all historians. Regardless, William was a very impressive individual about whom the largest body of heroic poetry in medieval France, the "Saint William cycle" of chansons de geste, developed in the centuries following his death. According to Pierre Béstournas d`Haucourt in "Heraldique ett Genealogie, 1981, p.363: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse, later monk at Gellone, canonized as St. William of the Desert (St. Guilhem du Désert),, * ca. 752, +8112. The remains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert) were transported to Neww York and re-built in the Cloisters complex of the Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier the 20th century. Additionally, David H. Kelley identifies him as the exilarch Natronai, both are questionable, especially in view of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and it's genealogical records in 70 CE. Although it should be noted that Charlemagne did bring back a Jewish official to Germany and this is supposed to be the father of Guillaume.

Randy Jones identifies his father as Thierry or Theuderic d'Autun and his mother as Alda de Francia. There is no supporting evidence for this, so I am going with the limited data as above and that of the Endfield-Bryant Genealogy. JCT 12/23/2000

Family/Spouse: Guitberge de Hornbach. Guitberge (daughter of Lambert, daughter of Lambert von Hornbach) was born in Hornbach, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany; died in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married Rotrude in 775 in Aquitaine, France. Rotrude was born in 742 in Belgium; died in 785 in Brosse, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Pepin, King of Italy IV about 795. Pepin (son of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Hildegarde de Vintzau) was born in Apr 777 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was christened on 12 Apr 781 in Rome, Italy; died on 8 Jul 810 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy; was buried in Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hellinburche de Gellone. Hellinburche was born in Gellone, Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died in Vermandois, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wala married Rotlinde, Countess de Gellone in 811 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France. Rotlinde was born in 785 in Vermandois, Picardie, France; died in 820 in Bobbio, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richarde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mandana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Waldrat married Count of Orleans Hadrian, Lord of Wormgau about 789 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France. Hadrian (son of Gerold, Duke of Swabia I and Emma von Vinzgau) was born in 769 in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died before 15 Feb 823 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Witburge (Guitberge) de Herbauges
• Birth: Abt 770, France
• Death: Aft 800, Germany

Family/Spouse: Guillaume (William) d'Autun. Guillaume (son of Thierry (Theodoric), Count of Autun and Toulouse IV and Auda Martel) was born about 751 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France; died on 28 May 812 in Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; was buried in Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]