Amalaric, King of the Visigoths II

Amalaric married Clotilda in 517 in Rheims, Marne, Loire Atlantique, France. Clotilda was born in 507 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; died in 531 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amalaric married Clotilde, Princess of the Franks in 511 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. Clotilde (daughter of Clovis I "The Great", King of the Franks and Clotilde) was born about 500 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; died in 531 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Athanagild married Goiswintha in 530 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Goiswintha (daughter of Hoamer, King of the Vandals and Gossana) was born in 518 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died in 582 in Y, Somme, Picardie, 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]

Galswintha married Chilperic, King of Soissons I in 567 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. Chilperic (son of Chlothar I "The Old", King of the Franks and Aregund) was born in 539 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 27 Sep 584 in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in St Vincent Abbey, Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Brunhilda married Sigebert I "The Lame", King of Austrasia in 567 in Metz, Alsace, Lorraine, France. Sigebert (son of Chlothar I "The Old", King of the Franks and Ingund) was born about 535 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died in Sep 575 in Vitry, Moselle, Lorraine, France; was buried in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, 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]

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]

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]

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: 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]

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

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]

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]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [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]

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

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

Family/Spouse: Under-King of Kent Eahlmund (Edmund). Eahlmund (son of Eaba (Eafa)) was born about 758 in Wessex, England; died in 788. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Beggo married Amaudru about 784 in Paris, Seine, France. Amaudru (daughter of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Desiderata (Sibilla) (Bertha)) was born about 760 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Grimhilda. Grimhilda (daughter of Baldwin d'Aquitaine and Rotrude) was born in 784 in Ville, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died in 856 in Roussillon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Abbess of St. Peter's at Rheims

Amaudru married Beggo, Count of Paris about 784 in Paris, Seine, France. Beggo (son of Gerard, Count of Paris I and Rotrude de Brosse) was born in 760 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died on 28 Oct 816 in Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Louis "the Pious" Emperor of the Romans

Notes:

Buried:
Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Prussia

Louis married Judith of Bavaria in Feb 818 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Judith (daughter of Guelph (Welf) von Altdorf Count d'Andech Duke of Bavaria, III and Hedwig) was born in 802 in Altdorf, Boblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 19 Apr 843 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France; was buried in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Ermengarde in 794 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium. Ermengarde (daughter of Duke of Hesbaye Ingeramne, Duke Of Hesbaye and Ingeramne de Heristal) was born on 1 Aug 778 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium; died on 3 Oct 818 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Aachen, Aachener Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Pepin married of Toulouse Bertha de Toulouse about 795. Bertha (daughter of of Belgium Bernard de St. Quentin and Gerberge de Laon) was born in 775 in Liege, Belgium; was buried in Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Bertha married Angilbert "The Saint" St. Riquier in 795. Angilbert (son of Nithand Martel and Richarde) was born about 750; died on 18 Feb 814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Dhuoda married Duke of Narbonne, Count of Barcelona Bernard d'Autun, Marquis of Septimania and Count of Barcelona I on 25 Jun 824 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Bernard (son of Guillaume (William) d'Autun and Guitberge de Hornbach) was born in 797 in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 17 Apr 818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Senegonde married of Toulouse Fulguad about 805 in Toulouse, France. Fulguad was born about 780 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rotlinde married Walla de Bobbio in 811. Walla was born in 754; died in 836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bernard de Septimania
• Birth: 805
• Death: 844; Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Notes:

Died:
Aachen, Aachener Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bernard married Dhuoda de Gascogne on 25 Jun 824 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Dhuoda (daughter of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Regina (Reginophychra)) was born about 804 in Gascoigne, Aquitaine, France; died on 2 Feb 842 in Uzès, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Leuthard, Count of Paris and Fezensac I. Leuthard (son of Gerard, Count of Paris I and Rotrude de Brosse) was born in 780 in Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France; died on 3 Jan 813 in Roussillon, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bernard I

Notes:

Died:
Aachen, Aachener Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bernard married Cunigunda about 813. Cunigunda was born in 797 in Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 835 in Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy; was buried in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rothaïde married Pepin, Count of Vermandois II about 841 in Picardie, France. Pepin (son of Bernard, King of the Lombards and Cunigunda) was born in 818 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 23 Feb 850 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy; was buried in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Angilbert married Bertha in 795. Bertha (daughter of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Hildegarde de Vintzau) was born in 779; died in 826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Under-King of Kent Eahlmund (Edmund). Eahlmund (son of Eaba (Eafa)) was born about 758 in Wessex, England; died in 788. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reigned 802-839.

In 800 at the decease of King Brithric, Egbert was called by the voice of
his countrymen to assume the Government of Wessex, and he subsequently
succeeded in reducing all the Kingdoms of the Heptarchy under his sway.
His reign, a long and glorious one, is memorable for the great victories
he achieved over the Danes.

See Europaisch Stammtafeln Bund II tafel 58.

Family/Spouse: Redburga (Raedburh). Redburga was born about 788 in Wessex, England; died on 4 Feb 839 in Winchester, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Engeltron married Unruoch de Ternois about 805 in Italy. Unruoch (son of Berenger) was born about 765 in Lombardy, Italy; died in 853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eberhardus married Gisele del Friuli about 837 in Germany. Gisele (daughter of Unruoch de Ternois and of Paris Engeltron) was born about 803 in Friuli, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Suzanne married Wulfhard in 825 in Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. Wulfhard was born in 810 in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France; died in 870 in Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adalhard married Gisela about 836. Gisela was born in 820; died on 5 Jul 874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gisela married Eberhard del Friuli about 836. Eberhard (son of Unruoch de Ternois and of Paris Engeltron) was born before 826 in Italy; died on 16 Dec 866 in Italy; was buried in Cysoing, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Saint Denis Basilique

Charles married Richaut on 22 Jan 870. Richaut (daughter of Count of Metz Budwine and Gizela) was born about 850 in Metz, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Ermentrude d'Orleans on 14 Dec 842 in Crécy, Nievre, Bourgogne, France. Ermentrude (daughter of Odo (Eudes), Count of Orleans and Countess of Paris Ingeltrude) was born on 27 Sep 823 in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France; died on 6 Oct 869 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Lorraine about 851 in France. Lorraine was born about 834 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hildegard married Count of Poitiers Gerard, Count of Auvergne about 819 in Poitiers, France. Gerard (son of Adeleme William, Count of Poitiers) was born about 795 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 25 Jun 841 in Battle of Fontenoy, Aisne, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rotrude married Count of Maine Rorican about 820. Rorican (son of of Neustria Ganzelin and Aldatrude) was born about 804 in of Maine, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lothar married Countess of Tours Ermengarde on 15 Oct 821 in Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France. Ermengarde (daughter of Count of Tours, Orleans and Alsace III Hugh and Ava (Bava)) was born about 795 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium; died on 20 Mar 851 in Burgundy, France; was buried in Erstein Abbey, Strasbourg, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lothar married Dode about 815. Dode was born about 799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adelaide married Count of Auxerre Conrad about 828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Louis II "The German"

Louis married Emma (Hemma) in 827 in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. Emma (daughter of Guelph (Welf) von Altdorf Count d'Andech Duke of Bavaria, III and Hedwig) was born in 808 in Altdorf, Boblingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany; died on 31 Jan 876 in Careme, Careme, Sachsen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bernard I

Notes:

Died:
Aachen, Aachener Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bernard married Cunigunda about 813. Cunigunda was born in 797 in Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 835 in Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy; was buried in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Berthe married Count of Ponthieu II Helgaud in 826. II (son of Oswin) was born in 805; died in 863. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Petronilla married Count of Anjou Tertulle about 844 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. Tertulle (son of Torquat (Tortulfe) de Rennes) was born about 821 in of Rennes, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bernard married Ermengarde de Chalons in 866 in Auvergne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. Ermengarde (daughter of Count of Chalons Guerin and Avane) was born in 843 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died in Jun 881 in Auvergne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Vulgrin I de Perigord. Vulgrin was born on 3 May 886. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

I married de (Remy) Arsin Bertheis about 833 in of Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. Bertheis (daughter of Remigius and Arsinde) was born about 815 in of France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pepin married Rothaïde de Bobbio about 841 in Picardie, France. Rothaïde (daughter of Wala de Corbie, Abbot of Bobbio and Hellinburche de Gellone) was born in 814 in Brosse, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France; died on 15 Jun 858 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Herbert I

Herbert married Bertha de Morvois about 878 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France. Bertha (daughter of Count of Morvois Guerri I de Morvois and Eve de Rossilon) was born in 845 in Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 15 Jun 923 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Kunigunde Perma. Kunigunde was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; died in 15 Jun in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Gunhilde married Count of Bayeux Gui Berenger de Senlis about 870. Gui (son of Count of Rennes Gurwant (Judicael)) was born about 847 in Bayeaux, Neustria, France; died in 930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married Count of Chartres Thibaut about 873 in Vermandois, Normandy, France. Thibaut was born about 835 in Chartres, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reigned 802-839.

In 800 at the decease of King Brithric, Egbert was called by the voice of
his countrymen to assume the Government of Wessex, and he subsequently
succeeded in reducing all the Kingdoms of the Heptarchy under his sway.
His reign, a long and glorious one, is memorable for the great victories
he achieved over the Danes.

See Europaisch Stammtafeln Bund II tafel 58.

Family/Spouse: Redburga (Raedburh). Redburga was born about 788 in Wessex, England; died on 4 Feb 839 in Winchester, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reigned 839-856 (abdicated). Under-king of Kent 825-839 and 856-858.
Renowned for his military prowess, he reputedly defeated 350 Viking ships (851). He reduced taxation, endowed the Church, made lay lands
inheritable, and provided systems of poor relief.

From BRITAIN'S KINGS AND QUEENS By Sir George Bellow Kvoc

Ethelwulf, son of King Egbert, was a man inclined to piety and mildness, and for a time Bishop of Winchester. He came to the throne an experienced ruler, for his father had made him 'sub-king' of Kent nine years before. Though he had such a promising training we know little of his actual reign. Most of his time seems to have been spent in fighting the Danes, who occupied the north and east parts of England; and two at least of his victories are recorded; one at Oakley and another at sea. In 855 Ethelwulf took his youngest son Alfred (later to be called the Great) on a pilgrimage to Rome. On the return journey he made a profitable alliance by marrying Charlemagne's grand-daughter Judith, the daughter of Charles the Bald, King of France and Emperor of the Romans. On his arrival in England with his thirteen-year old bride, he found that his son, Ethelbald, had usurped his throne, but, rather than cause a civil war, he was content to take second place, reverting; to his former kingdom of Kent. Two years later, in 858, he died.

William Seymour, SOVEREIGN LEGACY: An Historical Guide to the British Monarchy, p. 19: "... he maintained the supremacy of Wessex and had his successes against the Danes, notably at a battle near Basingstoke in 851, where he 'inflicted the greatest slaughter upon the heathen host that ever we have heard tell of up to the present day.' "

Æthelwulf married Osburga (Osburh) on 1 Oct 846 in England. Osburga (daughter of Chief Butler of Wessex Oslac) was born about 810 in Wessex, England; died after 876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]