Genseric "The Lame", King of the Vandals of Spain and Africa

Notes:

Vandals were a Germanic people settled in the 4th century AD in eastern Europe (where Silesia still bears the name of one section of the Vandals, the Silings). In the early 5th century, they invaded Roman Gaul and Spain with other tribes (probably leaving another trace of their presence in the name of Andalusia), and then crossed over to Africa under the leadership of one of the ablest rulers of the age, Gaiseric (d 477). They captured Carthage and established a kingdom based in what is now Tunisia but extended by naval power to include for a while Sicily, Sardinia and other islands - they sacked Rome itself in 455. However, the later Vandal kings proved unable to maintain their power, and their dominions were reconquered by a Byzantine expedition in 534. [Ref: Tapsell p295]

Genseric married Licinia Eudoxia, Princess of the Eastern Roman Empire about 444 in Spain. Licinia (daughter of Theodosius II "The Great", Eastern Roman Emperor and Aelia Eudocia Augusta) was born in Apr 422 in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey; died in Apr 462 in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eudocia. Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian, Western Roman Emperor III and Licinia Eudoxia, Princess of the Eastern Roman Empire) was born about 438 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died about 470 in Jerusalem. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gento married Eurica in 464 in Tunis, Tunisia. Eurica was born in 438 in Spain; died in 452 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hilderic married Amalafrida "The Younger" about 500. Amalafrida (daughter of King of the Vandals Thrasamund, King of the Vandals and Alans and Amalafrida, Princess of the Ostrogoths) was born about 486. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thrasamund
• Death: 523

Thrasamund married Amalafrida, Princess of the Ostrogoths about 500 in Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy. Amalafrida (daughter of Thiudimir and Erelieva) was born about 468 in Ravenna, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; died about 525 in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Valdar Hroarsson. Valdar (son of Hroar Halfdansson and Princess of Northumberland Ogne) was born about 547 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amalafrida married Hilderic, King of the Vandals about 500. Hilderic (son of Huneric, King of the Vandals and Alans and Eudocia) was born about 465 in Carthage; died in 533 in Africa Zeugitana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Can not find other source for her.

Family/Spouse: Bertachar, Co-King of the Thuringii. Bertachar (son of Bisinus, King of the Thuringii and II Basina) was born in 485 in Thueringen, Germany; died in 530 in Thuringia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baderic, King of Thuringia I. Baderic (son of Bisinus and Menia de Vexin) was born in 480 in Thueringen, Germany; died in 529 in Thueringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Valdar Hroarsson. Valdar (son of Hroar Halfdansson and Princess of Northumberland Ogne) was born about 547 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 520, Thüringen, Germany

Radegonde married Chlothar I "The Old", King of the Franks in 538. Chlothar (son of Clovis I "The Great", King of the Franks and Clotilde) was born about 497 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Alantique, France; died on 10 Nov 561 in Braines, Loire-Atlantique, Pays De La Loire, France; was buried in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Theodemir, King of Galicia. Theodemir was born in 530 in Austrasia, France; died in 570 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gerberga married Parovius, Count of Reims about 518 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Parovius was born in 497 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Killed by his brother, Gudrod

Halfdan married Moalda Kinriksdatter about 611 in Denmark. Moalda (daughter of Kinrik) was born in 587 in of Jutland, Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Oda married II Borogiso about 578 in Austrasia. II (son of Gondulph, Bishop of Tongeren and Palatina) was born about 562 in France; died in 588 in Cologne, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Betton married Austregilde in 537 in Franconia, Schwaben, Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany. Austregilde (daughter of De Pastor and Ragnoara Cambrai) was born in 530 in Aiga, Nord, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France; died in 555 in Ypres, Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ivar married Gauthild (Gyrita) Alfsdatter in 632 in Denmark. Gauthild (daughter of Alf) was born in 614 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of Roeskilda Auda. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Killed by his brother, Gudrod

Halfdan married Moalda Kinriksdatter about 611 in Denmark. Moalda (daughter of Kinrik) was born in 587 in of Jutland, Denmark. [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]

Ricimer married Garitrude, Abbess of Hamage in 563 in Franconia, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Garitrude (daughter of Ansbertus, Gallo Roman Senator and Blithilde) was born in 545 in Moselle, Lorraine, France; died in Dec 649 in Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aud married King of Gardarige Radbart (Radbard) about 669 in of Denmark. Radbart was born about 638 in Garderige, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aud married King of Lethra Hraerek "Slaunvanbauga" Halfdansson about 650 in of Denmark. Hraerek (son of Halfdan Frodasson) was born about 629 in Denmark; died before 669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Killed by Ivar Vidfadma

Ivar married Gauthild (Gyrita) Alfsdatter in 632 in Denmark. Gauthild (daughter of Alf) was born in 614 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of Roeskilda Auda. [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:

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]

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

Notes:

Died:
Killed in Sea battle at Bravik

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

Aud married King of Gardarige Radbart (Radbard) about 669 in of Denmark. Radbart was born about 638 in Garderige, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aud married King of Lethra Hraerek "Slaunvanbauga" Halfdansson about 650 in of Denmark. Hraerek (son of Halfdan Frodasson) was born about 629 in Denmark; died before 669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Killed by Ivar Vidfadma

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]

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]

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]

Sigurd married Alfhild Gandolfsdatter about 759 in Uppsala, Sweden. Alfhild (daughter of Gandolf Alfgeirsson) was born about 735 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Notes:

Died:
Killed in Sea battle at Bravik

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: 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]

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]

Notes:

See Snorre's Saga and the Icelandic Landnamobok (Book of Settlment). Many
historians regard much of the genealogy at this point to be purely
legendary, or even mythical.

See Snorre's Saga and the Icelandic Landnamobok (Book of Settlment).
Many historians regard much of the genealogy at this point to be purely
legendary, or even mythical.

plundered Paris in 845

Ragnar married Aslaug Sigurdsdatter about 769 in of Sweden, Denmark. Aslaug (daughter of of Norway Sigurd "Fofnersbane" Sigmundsson and Brynhild Budlasdatter) was born about 765 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ragnar married Thora Herraudssdatter about 775 in Sweden. Thora was born about 755 in of Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

United the Russias

Prince of Novgorod; Prince of Beloozero and Izborsk; Prince of Ladoga

Rurik married Efenda (Edvina) about 876 in Novgorod, Russia. Efenda was born about 850 in of Novgorod, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sigurd married Alfhild Gandolfsdatter about 759 in Uppsala, Sweden. Alfhild (daughter of Gandolf Alfgeirsson) was born about 735 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [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]

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: 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]

Notes:

led Vikings into Med. Sea in 859

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

Notes:

Died:
Died in Snake Pit

Sigurd married Princess in England Heluna (Bleja) about 799 in Denmark. Heluna (daughter of King in England Ella) was born about 784 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Murdered

Igor married Olga Prekrasa Elena in 903 in Pskov, Ukraine. Olga (daughter of of Denmark Oleg and Thorunn Hyrna Ketilsdatter) was born in 885 in Pskov, Ukraine; died on 11 Jul 969 in Kyiv, Ukraine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See Snorre's Saga and the Icelandic Landnamobok (Book of Settlment). Many
historians regard much of the genealogy at this point to be purely
legendary, or even mythical.

See Snorre's Saga and the Icelandic Landnamobok (Book of Settlment).
Many historians regard much of the genealogy at this point to be purely
legendary, or even mythical.

plundered Paris in 845

Ragnar married Aslaug Sigurdsdatter about 769 in of Sweden, Denmark. Aslaug (daughter of of Norway Sigurd "Fofnersbane" Sigmundsson and Brynhild Budlasdatter) was born about 765 in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ragnar married Thora Herraudssdatter about 775 in Sweden. Thora was born about 755 in of Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

United the Russias

Prince of Novgorod; Prince of Beloozero and Izborsk; Prince of Ladoga

Rurik married Efenda (Edvina) about 876 in Novgorod, Russia. Efenda was born about 850 in of Novgorod, Russia. [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]

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]

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]

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]

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