Kunigunde of Swabia

Family/Spouse: Luitpold of the Nordgau. Luitpold was born in 860; died on 4 Jul 907 in Bratislava, Slovakia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Arnulf "The Bad" was born about 885; died on 14 Jul 937 in Regensburg, Bavaria; was buried in St. Emmeram's Abbey, Regensburg, Bavaria.

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Count Palatine of Swabia. Sometimes called Berthold.

Erchanger married Gisla. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also Ludwig, Lewis, etc.

Louis married Emma of Altdorf in 827. Emma (daughter of Welf of Altdorf and Heilwig, Abbess of Chelles) was born about 808; died on 31 Jan 876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Hemma.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Aug 778, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, Aquitaine, France

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Also called Louis the Debonaire; Louis the Fair; Louis le Pieux; Ludwig der Fromme; Hludowicus.

Louis married Ermengarde about 794. Ermengarde (daughter of Ingram I) died on 3 Oct 818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Bavaria. Count of Altorf.

Also called Guelph.

Died on a 3rd of September. [The Henry Project]

Welf married Heilwig, Abbess of Chelles. Heilwig died after 833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Eigilwich; Eigilwi; Heilwich; Hedwig; Edith.

Died on a 5th of November. [The Henry Project]

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Also called Karolus Magnus; Charles the Great; Karl der Große.

Tradition says he was born in 742, but modern scholarship tends to regard 747 or 748 as more likely. Many authorities give the day of his birth as 2 April on one or the other of these years. Peter Stewart, writing on SGM on 5 Aug 2020, notes that no contemporary record gives us any certainty about either the year or the date. The first reference to his birthday being 2 Apr occurs in a calendar from the year 840. As 2 Apr was Easter Sunday in 747, it seems likely that this represented a latter-day burnishing of the late emperor's biography. As Stewart notes: "Obviously the silence of contemporaries about the emperor's birth occurring on the most joyful day of the religious calendar makes it somewhat implausible that he was really born on 2 April 747, yet that this propitious coincidence was somehow forgotten in his own family and at court only to be piously recalled later by a monk elsewhere."

Using Ahnentafel numbering, the ten proven ancestors of Charlemagne look like this:

1. Charlemagne
2. Pepin the Short, father
3. Bertrade of Laon, mother
4. Charles Martel, father's father
5. Rotrude, father's mother
6. Caribert of Laon, mother's father
7. ---
8. Pepin of Herstal, father's father's father
9. Alpaida, father's father's mother
10. ---
11. ---
12. ---
13. Bertrada of Prüm, mother's father's mother
14. ---
15. ---
16. Ansegisel, father's father's father's father
17. Begga, father's father's father's mother

Charlemagne married Hildegarde of Vinzgouw before 30 Apr 771. Hildegarde (daughter of Gerold of Swabia and Imma of Alemannia) was born between 2 May 757 and 30 Apr 761; died on 30 Apr 783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 758

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Also called Hildegard of Swabia.

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Count of Haspengau. Also called Ingerman.

Pepin married Berthe "Broadfoot" of Laon. Berthe (daughter of Charibert) died on 8 Jun 783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 12 Jul 783
• Alternate death: 13 Jul 783

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Bertrada of Laon; Regina pede aucae, i.e., the queen with the goose-foot.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 795

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Count in Vinzgau.

Gerold married Imma of Alemannia. Imma (daughter of Nebi) was born about 735; died about 788. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 740
• Alternate death: 798