Louis II "The Stammerer", King of France

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1 Nov 846

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King of Neustria 856; King of Aquitaine 867; King of France 877-879. (More precisely, king of West Francia.)

Called Louis II "le Begue".

The Henry Project and Royal Ancestry both say he was born on a 1st of November, about 846.

Louis married Ansgarde in Mar 862. Ansgarde (daughter of Harduin) died after 879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ermentrude of France was born between 870 and 877.

Louis married Adélaïde of Paris between 868 and 870. Adélaïde died after 9 Nov 901; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Corneille, Compiègne, Picardy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charles III "The Straightforward", King of Western Francia was born on 17 Sep 879; died on 7 Oct 929 in Peronne, Somme, Picardie, France.

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King of France; King of Aquitaine; King of Neustria. Also known as Charles "Le Chauve"; Karolus Calvus; Karl "der Kahle".

"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." [Wikipedia]

Charles married Ermentrude d'Orleans on 14 Dec 842. Ermentrude (daughter of Eudes and Engeltrude) was born before 830; died on 6 Oct 869. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 830

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• 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 Judith of Altdorf in Feb 819. Judith (daughter of Welf of Altdorf and Heilwig, Abbess of Chelles) was born between 800 and 805; died on 19 Apr 843 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 805

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• Alternate death: Jun 834

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Count of Orleans.

Eudes married Engeltrude. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

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• Alternate birth: 758

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Also called Hildegard of Swabia.

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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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Count of Fezensac.

Leuthard married Grimhilde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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• 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.

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• 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]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 740
• Alternate death: 798

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Remembered in Western history as the victor over the Umayyad Caliphate at Tours, October 732, long alleged to have been the decisive turning point in repelling the Muslim advance into Europe. Some modern historians question whether this single battle was quite so determinative. Some also question whether it happened in 732, or at Tours.

Charles married Rotrude of Trier. Rotrude died in 724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Chrotrude, Chrothrudis; Rotrou of Treves.

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• Alternate death: Bef 762

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Also called Herbert. Count of Laon.

Or perhaps Hardrad. [Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne, Volume 2, second printing, 2015.]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 700
• Alternate death: Abt 775

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Count in Alemannia.

Also called Hnabi.