Adaloff [Parents] was born about 920. He died WFT Est. 953-1011. was married was married WFT Est. 939-971.
He had the following children:
M i Arnouf de Boulogne
II Clotaire , King of Soissons [Parents] was born 584. He died 628. II married Altrude on WFT Est. 597-622.
Altrude was born WFT Est. 562-590. She died WFT Est. 604-657. married II Clotaire , King of Soissons on WFT Est. 597-622.
They had the following children:
M i I Dagobert King of Austrasia
Regnier I, Duke & Count [Parents] was born 850 in England. He died 916. married Alberade of Mons Duchess of Lorraine on WFT Est. 872-900.
Alberade of Mons Duchess of Lorraine was born about 860. She died WFT Est. 892-954. Alberade married Regnier I, Duke & Count on WFT Est. 872-900.
They had the following children:
M i Regnier Ii, Count of Hainaut
Giselbert Count of Darnau [Parents] was born about 830. He died 846. married Ermengarde of Lorraine , Princess of Italy on 846.
Ermengarde of Lorraine , Princess of Italy [Parents] was born about 830 in Italy. She died WFT Est. 854-924. Ermengarde married Giselbert Count of Darnau on 846.
They had the following children:
M i Regnier I, Duke & Count
Gieselbert Count In The Massgau [Parents] was born WFT Est. 775-796. He died WFT Est. 831-867. was married was married WFT Est. 798-842.
He had the following children:
M i Giselbert Count of Darnau
Lothaire I, King of Italy [Parents] was born 795 in Frankfort on Main, Germany. He died Jun 20 840 in Pruen, Germany. married Ermengarde of Tours Queen of Italy on Oct 15 821.
Ermengarde of Tours Queen of Italy [Parents] was born about 795 in Holland. She died Mar 20 850/851. Ermengarde married Lothaire I, King of Italy on Oct 15 821.
They had the following children:
M i II Lothaire , King of Lorraine F ii Ermengarde of Lorraine , Princess of Italy
Theodoric Count of Ringleheim [Parents] was born about 848. He died WFT Est. 881-939. married Ragnhildis Ludmilla on WFT Est. 864-896.
Ragnhildis Ludmilla was born about 848. She died WFT Est. 880-942. Ragnhildis married Theodoric Count of Ringleheim on WFT Est. 864-896.
They had the following children:
F i Matilda de Ringleheim
Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor [Parents] was born Apr 2 747 in Aachen, Germany. He died Jan 28 811/812 in Aachen, Germany. married Hildegarde of Swabia Emperess of The West about 771.
CHARLEMAGNE, son of PEPIN III and Bertha De Leon
Charles the Great or Charles I (742?- 814), emperor of the West (800-814), Carolingian of the Franks 768-8147. Son of Pepin the Short. he consalidated his rule in his kingdom, Italy in support of the pope, and in 774 was crowned king of the Lombards. He took NE Spain from the Moors 778 and annexed Bavaria 788. After a long struggle 772-804 he subjugated and Christianized the Saxons. In 800 he restored Leo III to the Papacy and was crowned Emperor by him om Christmas Day, thus laying the basis for the Holy Roman Empire and finalinzing the split betweeb the Byzantine and Roman Empires. Charlemagne ruled through a highly efficient administrative system. He codified the law in his various dominions and his court at Aachen was the center for an intellectual and artistic renaissance. The end of his regin was troubled by the Morsemen. His son, Louis I, was named co-emperor in 813 and succeded on his father's death. Charlemagne's legend soon enhanced and distorted his actual achievements, and he became the central figure of medieval romance cycle. Charles teh great, King of France 767-814, Emperor of the West, 25 Dec 800-814; born in Aachen, Rhineland, Germany; died AAchen. romance cycle.
[1] Charlemagne Frankish Emperor, son of Pepin III, "The Short" and Bertha. Born 2 April 742, in Ingelheim. Died 28 Jan. 814, in Aux-La'Chapelle.
Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor. Charles the Great [shar'-luh-mayn] Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, Carolingian King of the Franks, came to rule over most of Europe and assumed [800] the title of Roman Emperor. He is sometimes reguarded as founder of the Holy Roman Empire. Charlemagne was probally born in 742 Aachen. In 768 he and his brother Carloman inherited the Grankish Kingdom (most of present day France and part of western Germany) from their father Pepin The Short. The entire kingdom passed to Charlemagne when Carloman died in 771. Conquests Charlemagne inherited great wealth and a strong military organization from his father and brother. He used these assets to double the teritory under Carolingian control. In 772 he opened his offensive aganist the Saxons, and for more than three decades he pursued a ruthless policy aimed at sunjuating them and converting yhem to Christianity. Almost every year Charlemagne attacked one or another region of Saxon territory. Mass executions 4,500 Saxons were executed on a single day in 782 and deportations were used to discourage the stubborn. The Saxons proved to be far more difficult emeny than any of the other peoples subjugated by Charlemagne. For example, the Lombards were conquered in a single campaign 773/4, after which Charlemagne assumbed the title of King of the Lombards. In 788 he absorbed the duchy of Bavaria, and soon thereafter he launched an offensive aganist the Avar Empire. The Avars succumbed within a decade, yeilding Charlemagne a vast hoard of gold and silver. After on disastrous campaign 778 aganist the Muslins in Spain, Charlemagne the southwestern front to his son Louis. The latter Emperor Louis I, with the help of local Christian rulers, conquered Barcelona in 801 and controlled much of Catalonia by 814. On Christmas Day 800, Charlemagne accepted the title of Emperor and was crowned by Pope Leo III. For several years he reguarded the imperial title of being of little value. Moreover, he intended to divide his lands and titles among his son, as was the Frankish custom. At his death on 28 Jan. 814, however only one son, Louis, survived; Louis therefore assumed control of the entire Frankish empire. Administration. The internal organization of Charlemagne's empire varied from region to region. In much of what is today France, and especially in the south, the old Roman civitates (fortified cities) served as the focus of most important aspects of political, military, relogious, and social organization. Both the count of the city, appointed by Charlemagne as his representative, and the bishop made their respective headquarters in the civitas. The count or his agent led the army and the walls of the civitates afforded protection for the inhabitants both of the city and the nearby countryside. In those parts of the empire that had not been part of the Roman world, Charlemagne made an effort to impose a similar system; newly conquered lands into pagi (districts), which were placed under the jurisdiction of counts who exercized the same kind of administrative powers of their counterparts to the west. Charlemagne also sought to establish these new pagi as dioceses; frontier areas, Charlemagne often established districts that were essentially mi;itary in their purpose and organization; these called marks or marches. Local customs were everywhere prepetuated by recognition of tradiyional laws. The laws, of each of the various peoples of the Carolingian empire, such as Salian Franks, Ripuardian Franks, Romans, Saxonx, Lombards, Bavarias, Thuringians, and Jews, were codified and/or modified if local codes already existed, they were reconized. This judicial antonomy enjoyed by the several peoplee of the empire indicated the diversity that not only existed but also flourished under Charlemagne. The emperor did, hoewever, legislate to provide a system by whcih these various people could interact with each other. The central administration of the empire, like the local administrations, was rudimentary. A palatine court followed Charlemagne on his numerous campaigns in the later years of his life, when he remained at Aachen; the court stayed there. Charlemagne also sent missi dominic, high ranking agnets of the central government, from the court to see taht his orders, often cast in the form of capitularoes (ordinances divided into capitula or charters), were enforced as part of his administrative efforts, Charlemagne sought to standardize weights, measures and coinage. He also made attempt to control and develope trade. To these ends he strongly encouraged the developement of Jewish communities. Cultural Development: Charlemagne's concern for administration and his interest in seeing thr church funded effectively led him to engourage a rudimentary educational system based in Monasteries. Thus a small group of clerical and lay adminstrators attained a useful level of Literacy. Charlemagne left the development and implementation of this system largely to Alcuin. The latter's work led to what scholars have called the Carolingian Renissance. At Charlemagne's court a group of scholars was gathered that included men from England, Spain, and Italy, as well as native Franks and probaly Jews.
EVALUATION Charlemagne has been credited with great political and humanitarian vision and a devout religious bent; as a result, some have been led to think of his military ventures as crusades. In fact, he was a gluttonous and superstitious illiterate, or semi-iliterate, who had a considerably capacity for brutality. His accomplishments wer due mostly to the energy with which he prused his military goals and the ruthlessness with which he treated any opponents. Nonetheless, his achievements were considerable, and the effect of his conquests was to spread Roman Christianity across central Europe. He married Hildegrade, daughter of Gerold I count of Vizgau and Emma, cir 771. Children: [1] Pepin King of Italy; [2] Louis I Frankish Emperor. Additional wives; Luitgard, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire; Galiena, of the Holy Roman Empire; Desiderata, Holy Roman Empire, also known as Empress Sibilla, m. 770. Luitgard Empress of the Holy Romad Empire b. abt. 774, Allemania, Germany; Desiderata (Sibilla/Bertha) Holy Roman Empire, b. abt. 755, of Lombardy, Italy; Galieu (concubine 7) Holy Roman Empire.
Was King of Franks 768-800; crowned 9 Oct 768, Crowned Emperor of Roman Empire on 25 Dec. 800 Emperor of the West 800-814; died/buried at Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen; know as Charles the Great or Charlemagne "Carolus Magnus". He sometimes known as Charles I, King of France. He may have been born in 742. Charles the Great, Charles I, married twice before Hildegard
Hildegarde of Swabia Emperess of The West [Parents] was born 758 in Aachen, Germany. She died Apr 30 783 in Thionville, France. Hildegarde married Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor about 771.
They had the following children:
M i Pepin King of Italy M ii Carloman Pippin King of Italy was born Apr 773. He died Jul 8 810 in Frankfort on Main, Germany.
Pepin [Parents] was born 714 in Austria. He died Sep 24 768 in St. Denis, France. married Bertrada , Queen of The Franks about 740.
Bertrada , Queen of The Franks [Parents] was born 720. She died Jul 12 783. married Pepin about 740.
They had the following children:
M i Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor
Caribert de Laon Count of Laon was born about 690. He died WFT Est. 723-781. Caribert married Bertrada on WFT Est. 706-738.
Bertrada was born about 690. She died WFT Est. 722-784. married Caribert de Laon Count of Laon on WFT Est. 706-738.
They had the following children:
F i Bertrada , Queen of The Franks F ii Daughter of de Laon