Charlemagne

Abt 747 - 814  (~ 67 years)

• Name	Charlemagne
  Birth	Abt 747  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Jan 814	Aachen, Westphalia, Germany   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I8789	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JDM, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Pepin III "The Short", King of Franks,   b. 714, Austrasia, France d. 24 Sep 768, Saint-Denis, France (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Berthe "Broadfoot" of Laon   d. 8 Jun 783
  Family ID	F4958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hildegarde of Vinzgouw,   b. Between 2 May 757 and 30 Apr 761   d. 30 Apr 783 (Age ~ 25 years)
  Marriage	Bef 30 Apr 771  [4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Pépin, King of Italy,   b. Apr 773   d. 8 Jul 810, Milan, Lombardy, Italy (Age ~ 37 years) + 2. Louis I "The Pious", Holy Roman Emperor,   b. Between Apr 778 and Aug 778, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, Aquitaine, France d. 20 Jun 840, Petersaue, Ingelheim am Rhein, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany (Age ~ 62 years)
  Family ID	F2012	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2015

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

• Sources

  [S4261] Peter Stewart, 5 Aug 2020, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart. [S35] Encyclopedia Britannica. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.