Husband Charles Constantine Count of Vienne 1
Born: Abt 901
Christened:
Died: Abt Jan 962
Buried:
Father: Louis III "the Blind" King of Provence and Italy (Abt 0883-0928) 2
Mother: Anna of Byzantium (Between 0886/0888-Abt 0914) 3
Marriage:
Wife Teutberg 4
Born:
Christened:
Died: Abt 960
Buried:
Father: Garnier de Troyes, Viscount of Sens ( - ) 5
Mother:
Children
1 F Constance of Provence 6
Born:
Christened:
Died: Between 961 and 965
Buried:
Spouse: Boso II Count of Provence, Avignon & Arles ( -Between 0965/0967) 7
Marr: Abt 930
Husband Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor 8 9
AKA: Charles the Bald King of West Francia and Holy Roman Emperor
Born: 13 Jun 823 - Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia (Germany)
Christened:
Died: 5 Oct 877 - Mont Cenis, Brides-les-Bains, Bourgogne, (France)
Buried: - Church of Saint Peter, Abbey of Nantua, (Ain, Rhône-Alpes), Burgundy, (France)
Father: Louis I Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks (0778-0840) 10 11 12 13
Mother: Judith of Bavaria (Abt 0798-0843) 14 15 16
Marriage: 14 Dec 842 - Crécy, (Somme), Picardy, France
Other Spouse: Richildis ( - )
Events
• King of the Franks: 840-877.
• King of Western Francia: 843-877.
• Holy Roman Emperor: 25 Dec 875-5 Oct 877.
Wife Ermentrude of Orléans 17 18 19
AKA: Irmtrud
Born: 27 Sep 830 - Orléans, Orléanais, (Loiret), Neustria (France)
Christened:
Died: 6 Oct 869
Buried: - Basilica of Saint-Denis, Paris, Île-de-France, (France)
Father: Eudes Count of Orléans (Abt 0789- ) 20
Mother: Engeltrude ( - ) 18 19
Children
1 F Judith Princess of France 21 22 23
AKA: Judith of Flanders
Born: Oct 844 - France
Christened:
Died: After 870
Buried:
Spouse: Æthelwulf King of Wessex and King of Kent (Between 0795/0800-0858) 24 25
Marr: 1 Oct 856 - Verberie-sur-Oise, (Oise), France
Spouse: Æthelbald King of Wessex ( -0860) 26
Marr: After 13 Jan 858
Spouse: Baldwin I Count of Flanders (Abt 0836-0879) 27 28 29 30
Marr: Jan 862 - <Flanders (Belgium)>
2 M Louis II "the Stammerer" King of West Francia 17 31 32
AKA: Louis "the Stammerer"
Born: 1 Nov 846 - West Francia (France)
Christened:
Died: 10 Apr 879 - Compeigne, (Oise, Picardy), West Francia (France)
Buried:
Spouse: Adelaide of Paris (Abt 0855-After 0901) 17 33
Marr: Between 868 and 870
3 M Hersent
Born: Abt 862 - France
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Death Notes: Husband - Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor
Died near Mont Cenis in the Alps on 5 or 6 October 877.
Burial Notes: Husband - Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor
From Wikipedia: "According to the Annals of St-Bertin, Charles was hastily buried at the abbey of Nantua, Burgundy because the bearers were unable to withstand the stench of his decaying body. He was to have been buried in the Basilique Saint-Denis and may have been transferred there later. It was recorded that there was a memorial brass there that was melted down at the Revolution."
Research Notes: Husband - Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor
Name Suffix: Holy Roman Emperor Ancestral Roots has b. 830. Source: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593871986 has b. abt 825. FamilySearch has b. 27 Sep 830.
Eldest daughter of Eudes and Engletrude. Events
• King of the Franks: 840-877.
• King of Western Francia: 843-877.
• Holy Roman Emperor: 25 Dec 875-5 Oct 877.
Died near Mont Cenis in the Alps on 5 or 6 October 877.
From Wikipedia: "According to the Annals of St-Bertin, Charles was hastily buried at the abbey of Nantua, Burgundy because the bearers were unable to withstand the stench of his decaying body. He was to have been buried in the Basilique Saint-Denis and may have been transferred there later. It was recorded that there was a memorial brass there that was melted down at the Revolution."
Name Suffix: Holy Roman Emperor Source: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593872372
From Wikipedia - Charles the Simple : 3rd wife of Charles II "the Simple" Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), line 148-17 (Charles III) has m. 918.
Events
• Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia:
• Victory: over the Saracens at the Battle of Tours, 732, Tours near Poitiers, (Indre-et-Loire), France.
Ancestral Roots has b. 676; Wikipedia has abt. 688
From http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593871722: Source: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593872692 Events
• Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia:
• Victory: over the Saracens at the Battle of Tours, 732, Tours near Poitiers, (Indre-et-Loire), France.
Ancestral Roots has b. 676; Wikipedia has abt. 688
From http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593871722: According to Ancestral Roots, line 190-11, "sister of a Wido, identified without proof by the Abbe Chaume as son of St. Lievin, Bishop of Treves."
Events
• Living: 450.
Murdered by his son Cloderic, at the instigation of Clovis I, King of the Salic Franks, 481-511.
Events
• King of Neustria: 561-584.
• King of Soissons: 561-584.
Stabbed when returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles.
King of Neustria 561-584. 3rd wife of Chilperic I 1. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 141A-18.
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5. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 141A-18 (Charles Constantine).
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7. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 141A (Constance of Provence).
8. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 148-15, 162-16 (Judith).
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35. Wikipedia.org, Charles the Simple.
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37. Wikipedia.org, Edward the Elder.
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52. Wikipedia.org, Alpaida.
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54. Wikipedia.org, Theodo of Bavaria.
55. Wikipedia.org, Tassilo II of Bavaria.
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Also Known As: King of Lorraine
REFN: 831
King of France 843-877, King of Lorraine 869-877, crowned Holy Roman Emperor at Rome 25 December 875. In 840, Charles joined with his half-brother Louis in opposing their brother Lothair who attempted to secure the empire for himself upon the death of their father Louis.
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From Wikipedia - Charles the Bald :
Charles the Bald[1] (numbered Charles II of France and the Holy Roman Empire ) (French : Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 - 6 October 877 ), Holy Roman Emperor (875 -877 ) and King of West Francia (840 -877 ), was the youngest son of Emperor Louis the Pious , by his second wife Judith .
Struggle against his brothers
He was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt , when his elder brothers were already adults and had been assigned their own regna, or subkingdoms, by their father. The attempts made by Louis the Pious to assign Charles a subkingdom, first Alemannia and then the country between the Meuse and the Pyrenees (in 832, after the rising of Pepin I of Aquitaine ) were unsuccessful. The numerous reconciliations with the rebellious Lothair and Pepin, as well as their brother Louis the German , King of Bavaria , made Charles's share in Aquitaine and Italy only temporary, but his father did not give up and made Charles the heir of the entire land which was once Gaul and would eventually be France. At a diet near Crémieux in 837, Louis the Pious bade the nobles do homage to Charles as his heir. This led to the final rising of his sons against him and Pepin of Aquitaine died in 838, whereupon Charles received that kingdom, finally once and for all. Pepin's son Pepin II would be a perpetual thorn in his side.
The death of the emperor in 840 led to the outbreak of war between his sons. Charles allied himself with his brother Louis the German to resist the pretensions of the new emperor Lothair I, and the two allies defeated Lothair at the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye on June 25 , 841 . In the following year, the two brothers confirmed their alliance by the celebrated Oaths of Strasbourg . The war was brought to an end by the Treaty of Verdun in August 843. The settlement gave Charles the Bald the kingdom of the West Franks, which he had been up till then governing and which practically corresponded with what is now France, as far as the Meuse , the Saône , and the Rhône , with the addition of the Spanish March as far as the Ebro . Louis received the eastern part of the Carolingian Empire , known as the East Francia and later Germany . Lothair retained the imperial title and the Iron Crown of Lombardy . He also received the central regions from Flanders through the Rhineland and Burgundy as king of Middle Francia .
Reign in the West
The first years of Charles's reign, up to the death of Lothair I in 855 , were comparatively peaceful. During these years the three brothers continued the system of "confraternal government", meeting repeatedly with one another, at Koblenz (848 ), at Meerssen (851 ), and at Attigny (854 ). In 858 , Louis the German, invited by disaffected nobles eager to oust Charles, invaded the West Frankish kingdom. Charles was so unpopular that he was unable to summon an army, and he fled to Burgundy . He was saved only by the support of the bishops, who refused to crown Louis king, and by the fidelity of the Welfs , who were related to his mother, Judith. In 860 , he in his turn tried to seize the kingdom of his nephew, Charles of Provence , but was repulsed. On the death of his nephew Lothair II in 869 , Charles tried to seize Lothair's dominions, but by the Treaty of Mersen (870 ) was compelled to share them with Louis the German.
Besides these family disputes, Charles had to struggle against repeated rebellions in Aquitaine and against the Bretons . Led by their chiefs Nomenoë and Erispoë , who defeated the king at Ballon (845 ) and Juvardeil (851 ), the Bretons were successful in obtaining a de facto independence. Charles also fought against the Vikings , who devastated the country of the north, the valleys of the Seine and Loire , and even up to the borders of Aquitaine. Several times Charles was forced to purchase their retreat at a heavy price. Charles led various expeditions against the invaders and, by the Edict of Pistres of 864 , made the army more mobile by providing for a cavalry element, the predecessor of the French chivalry so famous during the next 600 years. By the same edict, he ordered fortified bridges to be put up at all rivers to block the Viking incursions. Two of these bridges at Paris saved the city during its siege of 885-886 .
Emperor
In 875 , after the death of the Emperor Louis II (son of his half-brother Lothair), Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII , traveled to Italy, receiving the royal crown at Pavia and the imperial insignia in Rome on December 29 . Louis the German, also a candidate for the succession of Louis II, revenged himself by invading and devastating Charles' dominions, and Charles had to return hastily to Francia . After the death of Louis the German (28 August 876 ), Charles in his turn attempted to seize Louis's kingdom, but was decisively beaten at Andernach on October 8 , 876 . In the meantime, John VIII, menaced by the Saracens , was urging Charles to come to his defence in Italy. Charles again crossed the Alps , but this expedition was received with little enthusiasm by the nobles, and even by his regent in Lombardy , Boso , and they refused to join his army. At the same time Carloman , son of Louis the German, entered northern Italy. Charles, ill and in great distress, started on his way back to Gaul, but died while crossing the pass of Mont Cenis at Brides-les-Bain , on 6 October 877 .
According to the Annals of St-Bertin, Charles was hastily buried at the abbey of Nantua, Burgundy because the bearers were unable to withstand the stench of his decaying body. He was to have been buried in the Basilique Saint-Denis and may have been transferred there later. It was recorded that there was a memorial brass there that was melted down at the Revolution.
Legacy
Charles was succeeded by his son, Louis . Charles seems to have been a prince of education and letters, a friend of the church, and conscious of the support he could find in the episcopate against his unruly nobles, for he chose his councillors from among the higher clergy, as in the case of Guenelon of Sens , who betrayed him, and of Hincmar of Reims .
It has been suggested that Charles was not in fact bald, but that his epithet was applied ironically - that, in fact, he was extremely hairy. In support of this idea is the fact that none of his enemies commented on what would be an easy target. However, none of the voluble members of his court comments on his being hairy; and the Genealogy of Frankish Kings, a text from Fontanell dating from possibly as early as 869, and a text without a trace of irony, names him as Karolus Caluus ("Charles the Bald"). Certainly, by the end of the 10th century, Richier of Reims and Adhemar of Chabannes refer to him in all seriousness as "Charles the Bald".[2]
Family
Charles married Ermentrude , daughter of Odo I, Count of Orléans , in 842 . She died in 869 . In 870 , Charles married Richilde of Provence , who was descended from a noble family of Lorraine , but none of the children he had with her played a part of any importance.
With Ermentrude :
With Richilde:
Birth Notes: Wife - Ermentrude of Orléans
Research Notes: Wife - Ermentrude of Orléans
Husband Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor 8 9
AKA: Charles the Bald King of West Francia and Holy Roman Emperor
Born: 13 Jun 823 - Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia (Germany)
Christened:
Died: 5 Oct 877 - Mont Cenis, Brides-les-Bains, Bourgogne, (France)
Buried: - Church of Saint Peter, Abbey of Nantua, (Ain, Rhône-Alpes), Burgundy, (France)
Father: Louis I Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Franks (0778-0840) 10 11 12 13
Mother: Judith of Bavaria (Abt 0798-0843) 14 15 16
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Ermentrude of Orléans (0830-0869) 17 18 19 - 14 Dec 842 - Crécy, (Somme), Picardy, France
Wife Richildis
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Death Notes: Husband - Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor
Burial Notes: Husband - Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor
Research Notes: Husband - Charles II "the Bald" of France and Holy Roman Emperor
Also Known As: King of Lorraine
REFN: 831
King of France 843-877, King of Lorraine 869-877, crowned Holy Roman Emperor at Rome 25 December 875. In 840, Charles joined with his half-brother Louis in opposing their brother Lothair who attempted to secure the empire for himself upon the death of their father Louis.
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From Wikipedia - Charles the Bald :
Charles the Bald[1] (numbered Charles II of France and the Holy Roman Empire ) (French : Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 - 6 October 877 ), Holy Roman Emperor (875 -877 ) and King of West Francia (840 -877 ), was the youngest son of Emperor Louis the Pious , by his second wife Judith .
Struggle against his brothers
He was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt , when his elder brothers were already adults and had been assigned their own regna, or subkingdoms, by their father. The attempts made by Louis the Pious to assign Charles a subkingdom, first Alemannia and then the country between the Meuse and the Pyrenees (in 832, after the rising of Pepin I of Aquitaine ) were unsuccessful. The numerous reconciliations with the rebellious Lothair and Pepin, as well as their brother Louis the German , King of Bavaria , made Charles's share in Aquitaine and Italy only temporary, but his father did not give up and made Charles the heir of the entire land which was once Gaul and would eventually be France. At a diet near Crémieux in 837, Louis the Pious bade the nobles do homage to Charles as his heir. This led to the final rising of his sons against him and Pepin of Aquitaine died in 838, whereupon Charles received that kingdom, finally once and for all. Pepin's son Pepin II would be a perpetual thorn in his side.
The death of the emperor in 840 led to the outbreak of war between his sons. Charles allied himself with his brother Louis the German to resist the pretensions of the new emperor Lothair I, and the two allies defeated Lothair at the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye on June 25 , 841 . In the following year, the two brothers confirmed their alliance by the celebrated Oaths of Strasbourg . The war was brought to an end by the Treaty of Verdun in August 843. The settlement gave Charles the Bald the kingdom of the West Franks, which he had been up till then governing and which practically corresponded with what is now France, as far as the Meuse , the Saône , and the Rhône , with the addition of the Spanish March as far as the Ebro . Louis received the eastern part of the Carolingian Empire , known as the East Francia and later Germany . Lothair retained the imperial title and the Iron Crown of Lombardy . He also received the central regions from Flanders through the Rhineland and Burgundy as king of Middle Francia .
Reign in the West
The first years of Charles's reign, up to the death of Lothair I in 855 , were comparatively peaceful. During these years the three brothers continued the system of "confraternal government", meeting repeatedly with one another, at Koblenz (848 ), at Meerssen (851 ), and at Attigny (854 ). In 858 , Louis the German, invited by disaffected nobles eager to oust Charles, invaded the West Frankish kingdom. Charles was so unpopular that he was unable to summon an army, and he fled to Burgundy . He was saved only by the support of the bishops, who refused to crown Louis king, and by the fidelity of the Welfs , who were related to his mother, Judith. In 860 , he in his turn tried to seize the kingdom of his nephew, Charles of Provence , but was repulsed. On the death of his nephew Lothair II in 869 , Charles tried to seize Lothair's dominions, but by the Treaty of Mersen (870 ) was compelled to share them with Louis the German.
Besides these family disputes, Charles had to struggle against repeated rebellions in Aquitaine and against the Bretons . Led by their chiefs Nomenoë and Erispoë , who defeated the king at Ballon (845 ) and Juvardeil (851 ), the Bretons were successful in obtaining a de facto independence. Charles also fought against the Vikings , who devastated the country of the north, the valleys of the Seine and Loire , and even up to the borders of Aquitaine. Several times Charles was forced to purchase their retreat at a heavy price. Charles led various expeditions against the invaders and, by the Edict of Pistres of 864 , made the army more mobile by providing for a cavalry element, the predecessor of the French chivalry so famous during the next 600 years. By the same edict, he ordered fortified bridges to be put up at all rivers to block the Viking incursions. Two of these bridges at Paris saved the city during its siege of 885-886 .
Emperor
In 875 , after the death of the Emperor Louis II (son of his half-brother Lothair), Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII , traveled to Italy, receiving the royal crown at Pavia and the imperial insignia in Rome on December 29 . Louis the German, also a candidate for the succession of Louis II, revenged himself by invading and devastating Charles' dominions, and Charles had to return hastily to Francia . After the death of Louis the German (28 August 876 ), Charles in his turn attempted to seize Louis's kingdom, but was decisively beaten at Andernach on October 8 , 876 . In the meantime, John VIII, menaced by the Saracens , was urging Charles to come to his defence in Italy. Charles again crossed the Alps , but this expedition was received with little enthusiasm by the nobles, and even by his regent in Lombardy , Boso , and they refused to join his army. At the same time Carloman , son of Louis the German, entered northern Italy. Charles, ill and in great distress, started on his way back to Gaul, but died while crossing the pass of Mont Cenis at Brides-les-Bain , on 6 October 877 .
According to the Annals of St-Bertin, Charles was hastily buried at the abbey of Nantua, Burgundy because the bearers were unable to withstand the stench of his decaying body. He was to have been buried in the Basilique Saint-Denis and may have been transferred there later. It was recorded that there was a memorial brass there that was melted down at the Revolution.
Legacy
Charles was succeeded by his son, Louis . Charles seems to have been a prince of education and letters, a friend of the church, and conscious of the support he could find in the episcopate against his unruly nobles, for he chose his councillors from among the higher clergy, as in the case of Guenelon of Sens , who betrayed him, and of Hincmar of Reims .
It has been suggested that Charles was not in fact bald, but that his epithet was applied ironically - that, in fact, he was extremely hairy. In support of this idea is the fact that none of his enemies commented on what would be an easy target. However, none of the voluble members of his court comments on his being hairy; and the Genealogy of Frankish Kings, a text from Fontanell dating from possibly as early as 869, and a text without a trace of irony, names him as Karolus Caluus ("Charles the Bald"). Certainly, by the end of the 10th century, Richier of Reims and Adhemar of Chabannes refer to him in all seriousness as "Charles the Bald".[2]
Family
Charles married Ermentrude , daughter of Odo I, Count of Orléans , in 842 . She died in 869 . In 870 , Charles married Richilde of Provence , who was descended from a noble family of Lorraine , but none of the children he had with her played a part of any importance.
With Ermentrude :
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Research Notes: Wife - Richildis
Husband Charles III "the Simple" King of Western Francia 17 34 35
AKA: Charles III "the Straightforward" King of Western Francia, Charles the Simple King of France, Karolus Simplex King of France
Born: 17 Sep 879 - <West Francia (France)>
Christened:
Died: 7 Oct 929 - Péronne, (Somme), Picardy, West Francia (France)
Buried: - St. Fursi, Péronne, (Somme), Picardy, West Francia (France)
Father: Louis II "the Stammerer" King of West Francia (0846-0879) 17 31 32
Mother: Adelaide of Paris (Abt 0855-After 0901) 17 33
Marriage: 7 Oct 919
Wife Ogiva of England
AKA: Edgifu, Edgiva of England, Ogive
Born: 902 - Wessex, England
Christened:
Died: After 955
Buried:
Father: Edward I "the Elder" King of England (Between 0871/0875-0924/0925) 36 37 38
Mother: Elfreda (Abt 0878- ) 17 37 39
Other Spouse: Herbert III Count of Vermandois (Between 0942/0953-0993) 40 41 - 951
Children
1 M Louis IV d'Outre-Mer, King of the West Franks 17 42
AKA: Louis IV "Transmarinus" King of Western Francia
Born: 10 Sep 920 - <Laon, (Aisne), Picardy>, France
Christened:
Died: 10 Sep 954 - Reims, (Marne), Champagne, France
Buried: - Abbaye de St. Rémy, Reims, (Marne), Champagne, (France)
Spouse: Gerberga of Saxony (Abt 0914-0984) 17 43 44
Marr: 939 or 940
Research Notes: Husband - Charles III "the Simple" King of Western Francia
Charles III (17 September 879 - 7 October 929), called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin Karolus Simplex), was the undisputed King of France from 898 until 922 and the King of Lotharingia from 911 until 919/23. He was a member of the Carolingian dynasty , the third and posthumous son of Louis the Stammerer by his second wife, Adelaide of Paris .
As a child, Charles was prevented from succeeding to the throne at the time of the death in 884 of his half-brother Carloman . The nobles of the realm instead asked his uncle, Charles the Fat , to rule them. He was also prevented from succeeded the unpopular Charles, who was deposed in November 887 and died in January 888, although it is unknown if his deposition was accepted or even made known in West Francia before his death. The nobility elected Odo , the hero of the Siege of Paris , king, though there was a faction that supported Guy III of Spoleto . Charles was put under the protection of Ranulf II , the Duke of Aquitaine , who may have tried to claim the throne for him and in the end used the royal title himself until making peace with Odo. Finally, in 893 Charles was crowned by a faction opposed to Odo at Reims Cathedral . He only became the effectual monarch with the death of Odo in 898.[1]
In 911 Charles signed the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte with the Viking leader Rollo , thus enfeoffing him with the lower Seine basin, the heart of what would become Normandy , in hopes that Rollo would fend off future Viking raids in the Seine area. He also gave the Viking his daughter Gisela in marriage. In the same year as the treaty with the Vikings, Louis the Child , the King of Germany , died and the nobles of Lotharingia , who had been loyal to him, under the leadership of Regina Longneck , declared Charles their new king, breaking from Germans who had elected Conrad of Franconia king.[1] Charles tried to win their support by marrying a Lotharingian woman named Frederuna , who died in 917.
On 7 October 919 Charles re-married to Eadgifu , the daughter of Edward the Elder , King of England . By this time Charles' excessive favouritism towards a certain Hagano had turned the aristocracy against him. He endowed Hagano with monasteries which were already the benefices of other barons, alienating these barons. In Lotharingia he earned the enmity of the new duke, Gilbert , who declared for the German king Henry the Fowler in 919.[1] Opposition to Charles in Lotharingia was not universal, however, and he retained the support of Wigeric . In 922 some of the West Frankish barons, led by Robert of Neustria and Rudolph of Burgundy , revolted. Robert, who was Odo's brother, was elected by the rebels and crowned in opposition to Charles, who had to flee to Lotharingia. He returned the next year (923) with a Norman army but was defeated on 15 June near Soissons by Robert, who died in the battle.[1] Charles was captured and imprisoned in a castle at Péronne under the guard of Herbert II of Vermandois .[2] Rudolph was elected to succeed him. In 925 the Lotharingians accepted Rudolph as their king. Charles died in prison on 7 October 929 and was buried at the nearby abbey of Saint-Fursy . Though he had had many children by Frederuna, it his son by Eadgifu who would eventually be crowned in 936 as Louis IV of France . In the initial aftermath of Charles defeat, Eadgifu and Louis fled to England.
Research Notes: Wife - Ogiva of England
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), Line 50-20 (Herbert III). Line 148-17 (Charles III) has d. 951
Source: Wikipedia - Edward the Elder and Eadgifu of England
From Wikipedia - Eadgifu of England :
Eadgifu (b. 902 , d. after 955 ) or Edgifu, was a daughter [1] of Edward the Elder , King of Wessex and England , and his second wife Aelffaed . She was born in Wessex .
Marriage to the French King
She was the second wife of King Charles III of France ,[1] whom she married in 919 after the death of his first wife, Frederonne ; she was mother to Louis IV of France .
Flight to England
In 922 Charles III was deposed and the next year taken prisoner by Count Herbert II of Vermandois , an ally of the present King. To protect her son's safety Eadgifu took him to England in 923 to the court of her half-brother, Athelstan of England .[2] Because of this, Louis IV of France became known as Louis d'Outremer of France. He stayed there until 936, when he was called back to France to be crowned King. Eadgifu accompanied him.
She retired to a convent in Laon. Then, in 951, she left the convent and married Herbert III, Count of Vermandois .[2]
Notes
^ a b Lappenberg, Johann ; Benjamin Thorpe, translator (1845). A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings. J. Murray, pp. 88-89.
^ a b Williams, Ann ; Alfred P. Smyth, D. P. Kirby (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales. Routledge, p. 112. ISBN 1852640472 .
References
Notes: Marriage
Husband Charles Martel King of the Franks 45 46 47 48 49
AKA: Carollus Martellus, Charles "the Hammer" King of the Franks
Born: Abt 676 - Herstal, Liège, Austrasia (Belgium)
Christened:
Died: 22 Oct 741 - Ciersy Sur Oise, Austrasia (France)
Buried: - Monastery of St. Denis, Saint-Denis, [Île-de-France, France]
Father: Pepin II of Heristal, Duke of Austrasia (Abt 0645-0714) 48 50
Mother: Alpaida ( - ) 51 52
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Rotrude of Treves (0690-0724) 53
Wife Swanachild
AKA: Swanhilde
Born: Abt 691 - Bavaria, (Germany)
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Tassilo II of Bavaria ( -Abt 0719) 54 55
Mother: Imma ( -Abt 0750)
Father:
Mother: Imma ( -Abt 0750)
Children
Birth Notes: Husband - Charles Martel King of the Franks
Research Notes: Husband - Charles Martel King of the Franks
"Charles is particularly remembered in history for winning the battle of Tours in 732. The battle, near Poitiers on 11 October, ended the invasion of a 90,000 man Moorish [Saracen] army led by the Yemenite Abd ar-Rahman. The Moors had crossed the Pyrenees by 720 when they captured Narbonne. After sacking and burning Bordeaux, they defeated an army under Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine (RIN # 4056). Attracted by its riches, the Moors marched on Tours, but were defeated by Charles (afterwards called Charles the Hammer) then 44 years of age. Abd ar-Rahman is killed and the invaders retreated across the Pyrenees to Spain where they will not be driven from until 1492. In 735, Charles conquered Burgundy, adding its lands to the Kingdom of the Franks.
"!The People's Chronology; 65"
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From Wikipedia - Charles Martel :
Charles Martel (Latin : Carolus Martellus) (ca. 688 - 22 October 741),[1][2][3][4][5] called Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum (737-43) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks . In 739 he was offered the title of Consul by the Pope , but he refused.[6] He is perhaps best remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, in which he defeated an invading Muslim army and halted northward Islamic expansion in western Europe.[7]
A brilliant general-he lost only one battle in his career (the Battle of Cologne )-he is a founding figure of the Middle Ages , often credited with a seminal role in the development of feudalism and knighthood , and laying the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire .[8] [9]
Birth and youth
Martel was born in Herstal , in present-day Belgium , the illegitimate son of the mayor and duke Pippin II and his concubine Alpaida .[10]
The following tale is told of Charles and of the origins of his name:[citation needed ] in 676, Pepin of Herstal and his wife Plectrude were talking together in a room when they were intruded upon by a messenger, bringing news that the Mayor's mistress, Alpaida , had given birth to a son at Herstal. The messenger, fearful of arousing the wrath of Plectrude, decided not to announce the news directly. Instead, he said: "Long live the king, it is a carl" ('man'). Pepin, equally cautious of his wife, dismissed the messenger as follows: "A carl, is it? Then let him be called that." This was done, and, so legend claims, the child was named "Carl". In Germany he's still called "Karl Martell". Alpaida also bore Pepin another son, Childebrand.
<<b>>Contesting for power<</b>>
In December 714, Pepin of Heristal died. Prior to his death, he had, at his wife Plectrude's urging, designated Theudoald , his grandson by their son Grimoald , his heir in the entire realm. This was immediately opposed by the nobles because Theudoald was a child of only eight years of age. To prevent Charles using this unrest to his own advantage, Plectrude had him gaoled in Cologne , the city which was destined to be her capital. This prevented an uprising on his behalf in Austrasia , but not in Neustria .
Death
Charles Martel died on October 22, 741, at Quierzy-sur-Oise in what is today the Aisne département in the Picardy region of France. He was buried at Saint Denis Basilica in Paris . His territories were divided among his adult sons a year earlier: to Carloman he gave Austrasia and Alemannia (with Bavaria as a vassal), to Pippin the Younger Neustria and Burgundy (with Aquitaine as a vassal), and to Grifo nothing, though some sources indicate he intended to give him a strip of land between Neustria and Austrasia.
Gibbon called him "the hero of the age" and declared "Christendom ... delivered ... by the genius and good fortune of one man, Charles Martel."
Family and children
Charles Martel married twice:
His first wife was Rotrude of Treves , (690-724) (daughter of St. Leutwinus, Bishop of Treves ). They had the following children:
His second wife was Swanhild . They had the following child:
Charles Martel also had a mistress, Ruodhaid . They had the following children:
Research Notes: Wife - Swanachild
This source gives Swanhilde's parents as Grimaldo II (b. abt 665 in Bavaria) and Viltrude (b. abt 667)
Husband Charles Martel King of the Franks 45 46 47 48 49
AKA: Carollus Martellus, Charles "the Hammer" King of the Franks
Born: Abt 676 - Herstal, Liège, Austrasia (Belgium)
Christened:
Died: 22 Oct 741 - Ciersy Sur Oise, Austrasia (France)
Buried: - Monastery of St. Denis, Saint-Denis, [Île-de-France, France]
Father: Pepin II of Heristal, Duke of Austrasia (Abt 0645-0714) 48 50
Mother: Alpaida ( - ) 51 52
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Swanachild (Abt 0691- )
Wife Rotrude of Treves 53
AKA: Rotrou
Born: 690
Christened:
Died: 724
Buried:
Father: Saint Leutwinus Bishop of Treves ( - )
Mother:
Children
1 M Carloman Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia 56
Born: abt 0711
Christened:
Died: 754
Buried:
2 F Landrade
AKA: Landres
Born: Abt 713
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Sigrand Count of Hesbania (Abt 0709- )
Marr: Abt 709
3 M Pepin III "the Short" King of the Franks 48 57 58 59
AKA: Pippin the Short King of the Franks
Born: 714 - Austrasia, Frankish Empire, (France or Germany)
Christened:
Died: 24 Sep 768 - Saint-Denis, (Paris, Île-de-France), Neustria (France)
Buried: - Basilica of St. Denis, Saint-Denis, (Paris, Île-de-France), Neustria (France)
Spouse: Berthe of Laon ( -0783) 60
4 F Hiltrud
Born:
Christened:
Died: 754
Buried:
Spouse: Odilo I Duke of Bavaria ( - )
5 F Auda
AKA: Alane, Aldana
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Thierry IV Count of Autun and Toulouse ( - )
6 M Duke Bernard 61
Born:
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Died:
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Birth Notes: Husband - Charles Martel King of the Franks
Research Notes: Husband - Charles Martel King of the Franks
"Charles is particularly remembered in history for winning the battle of Tours in 732. The battle, near Poitiers on 11 October, ended the invasion of a 90,000 man Moorish [Saracen] army led by the Yemenite Abd ar-Rahman. The Moors had crossed the Pyrenees by 720 when they captured Narbonne. After sacking and burning Bordeaux, they defeated an army under Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine (RIN # 4056). Attracted by its riches, the Moors marched on Tours, but were defeated by Charles (afterwards called Charles the Hammer) then 44 years of age. Abd ar-Rahman is killed and the invaders retreated across the Pyrenees to Spain where they will not be driven from until 1492. In 735, Charles conquered Burgundy, adding its lands to the Kingdom of the Franks.
"!The People's Chronology; 65"
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From Wikipedia - Charles Martel :
Charles Martel (Latin : Carolus Martellus) (ca. 688 - 22 October 741),[1][2][3][4][5] called Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum (737-43) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks . In 739 he was offered the title of Consul by the Pope , but he refused.[6] He is perhaps best remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, in which he defeated an invading Muslim army and halted northward Islamic expansion in western Europe.[7]
A brilliant general-he lost only one battle in his career (the Battle of Cologne )-he is a founding figure of the Middle Ages , often credited with a seminal role in the development of feudalism and knighthood , and laying the groundwork for the Carolingian Empire .[8] [9]
Birth and youth
Martel was born in Herstal , in present-day Belgium , the illegitimate son of the mayor and duke Pippin II and his concubine Alpaida .[10]
The following tale is told of Charles and of the origins of his name:[citation needed ] in 676, Pepin of Herstal and his wife Plectrude were talking together in a room when they were intruded upon by a messenger, bringing news that the Mayor's mistress, Alpaida , had given birth to a son at Herstal. The messenger, fearful of arousing the wrath of Plectrude, decided not to announce the news directly. Instead, he said: "Long live the king, it is a carl" ('man'). Pepin, equally cautious of his wife, dismissed the messenger as follows: "A carl, is it? Then let him be called that." This was done, and, so legend claims, the child was named "Carl". In Germany he's still called "Karl Martell". Alpaida also bore Pepin another son, Childebrand.
<<b>>Contesting for power<</b>>
In December 714, Pepin of Heristal died. Prior to his death, he had, at his wife Plectrude's urging, designated Theudoald , his grandson by their son Grimoald , his heir in the entire realm. This was immediately opposed by the nobles because Theudoald was a child of only eight years of age. To prevent Charles using this unrest to his own advantage, Plectrude had him gaoled in Cologne , the city which was destined to be her capital. This prevented an uprising on his behalf in Austrasia , but not in Neustria .
Death
Charles Martel died on October 22, 741, at Quierzy-sur-Oise in what is today the Aisne département in the Picardy region of France. He was buried at Saint Denis Basilica in Paris . His territories were divided among his adult sons a year earlier: to Carloman he gave Austrasia and Alemannia (with Bavaria as a vassal), to Pippin the Younger Neustria and Burgundy (with Aquitaine as a vassal), and to Grifo nothing, though some sources indicate he intended to give him a strip of land between Neustria and Austrasia.
Gibbon called him "the hero of the age" and declared "Christendom ... delivered ... by the genius and good fortune of one man, Charles Martel."
Family and children
Charles Martel married twice:
His first wife was Rotrude of Treves , (690-724) (daughter of St. Leutwinus, Bishop of Treves ). They had the following children:
His second wife was Swanhild . They had the following child:
Charles Martel also had a mistress, Ruodhaid . They had the following children:
Research Notes: Wife - Rotrude of Treves
Husband Childebert King of Cologne 62 63 64
AKA: Childebert I King of Paris, Choldebaud King of Cologne
Born: Bef 440 - Rheims, (Marne, Champagne-Ardenne), Gaul, (France)
Christened:
Died: Between 483 and 488
Buried:
Father: Clovis "the Riparian" Frankish King of Cologne (Bef 0420- ) 65 66
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Sigebert "the Lame" King of Cologne 67 68
AKA: Sigebert I "the Lame" King of Cologne, Sigobert "the Lame"
Born: Bef 460
Christened:
Died: Abt 509
Buried:
Spouse: Vultrogothe Princess of Orleans ( - ) 69
Marr: Bef 460
Death Notes: Child - Sigebert "the Lame" King of Cologne
Husband Childebrand Duke of Swabia 70
AKA: Chidebrand Duke of Swabia
Born: Abt 717
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Ermentrude 71
Born: Abt 743 - Swabia, Germany
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Isenbart Lord of Altdorf (Abt 0741- ) 72
Husband Chilpéric I King of Soissons and King of Neustria 73 74
Born: Abt 539 - <Neustria>, France
Christened:
Died: Sep 584
Buried:
Father: Clotaire I "le Vieux" King of Soissons and King of the Franks (0497-0561) 75 76 77
Mother: Arnégonde (Abt 0515-0573) 78 79 80
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Audovera ( - )
Wife Fredegund 81 82
AKA: Frédégonde
Born: 543
Christened:
Died: 597
Buried:
Children
1 M Clotaire II King of Neustria, King of the Franks 81 83 84
AKA: Chlothar "le Jeune" King of Neustria, King of the Franks, Chlothar II "le Grand" King of Neustria, King of the Franks, Lothair II King of Neustria, King of the Franks
Born: 584 - <Neustria>, France
Christened:
Died: 629 - Paris, (Île-de-France), Neustria, France
Buried:
Spouse: Haldertrude (0575-0604) 81
Spouse: Bertrade (0582-0618) 85
Spouse: Sichilde ( - )
Death Notes: Husband - Chilpéric I King of Soissons and King of Neustria
Research Notes: Husband - Chilpéric I King of Soissons and King of Neustria
King of Soissons, succeeding Chlothar I (Clotaire I).
From Wikipedia - Chilperic I :
Chilperic I (c. 539 - September 584 ) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons ) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I , sole king of the Franks , and Aregund.
Immediately after the death of his father in 561 , he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris . His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens , Arras , Cambrai , Thérouanne , Tournai , and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris , the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans , and Sigebert received Austrasia . On the death of Charibert in 567 , his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.
Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of-at the very least-antipathy. Sigebert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert . The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573 ), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.
When Sigebert married Brunhilda , daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild ), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera , and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund . He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha . But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.
This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575 , Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine , and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II .
In 578 , Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch of the Vannetais along the Vilaine . The Frankish army consisted of units from the Poitou , Touraine , Anjou , Maine , and Bayeux . The Baiocassenses (men from Bayeux) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons.[1] The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, did homage for Vannes, sent his son as a hostage, and agreed to pay an annual tribute. He subsequently broke his oath, but Chilperic's dominion over the Bretons was relatively secure, as evidence by Venantius Fortunatus celebration of it in a poem.
He was detested by Gregory of Tours , who dubbed him as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi.46): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing of ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics. His reign in Neustria also saw the introduction of the Byzantine punishment of eye-gouging. Yet, he was also a man of culture: he was a musician of some talent, and his verse (modeled on that of Sedulius ) is well-regarded; he reformed the Germanic alphabet; and he worked to reduce the worst effects of Salic law upon women.
It was one day in September of 584 , while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles , that Chilperic was stabbed to death.
...Family
Chilperic's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:
His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.
His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:
Research Notes: Wife - Fredegund
Source: Wikipedia - Chlothar II
Husband Garcia III King of Navarre 86
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1 M Sancho III King of Navarre 86
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