Charlemagne

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Charlemagne

Latin: Carolus Magnos or Karolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great; possibly 742 - 28 January 814)

was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum) from 800 to his death in 814.

He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800. This temporarily made him a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. His rule is also associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne helped define both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. He is numbered as Charles I in the regnal lists of Germany (where he is known as Karl der Große), the Holy Roman Empire, and France.

The son of King Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, a Frankish queen, he succeeded his father and co-ruled with his brother Carloman I. The latter got on badly with Charlemagne, but war was prevented by the sudden death of Carloman in 771.

Charlemagne continued the policy of his father towards the papacy and became its protector, removing the Lombards from power in Italy, and leading an incursion into Muslim Spain, to which he was invited by the Muslim governor of Barcelona. Charlemagne was promised several Iberian cities in return for giving military aid to the governor; however, the deal was withdrawn. Subsequently, Charlemagne's retreating army experienced its worst defeat at the hands of the Basques, at the Battle of Roncesvalles (778) memorialised, although heavily fictionalised, in the Song of Roland. He also campaigned against the peoples to his east, especially the Saxons, and after a protracted war subjected them to his rule. By forcibly converting them to Christianity, he integrated them into his realm and thus paved the way for the later Ottonian dynasty.
Today he is regarded not only as the founding father of both French and German monarchies, but also as the father of Europe[1]: his empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Romans, and the Carolingian renaissance encouraged the formation of a common European identity.[2]

Charlemagne had twenty-four (24) children over the course of his life with eight of his ten known wives and concubines. Nonetheless, he had only 4 legitimate grandsons, the four sons of his third son Louis, plus a grandson who was born illigitimate, but included in the line of inheritance.

A. Himiltrude:

A1.B1 Amaudru

A1.B2 Pippin the Hunchback (ca. 769-811)

A2. Desiderata

A3. Hildegard:

A3.B1 Charles the Younger (ca. 772-4 December 811)

A3.B2 Adalhaid (774)

A3.B3 Rotrude (or Hruodrud) (775-6 June 810)

A3.B4 Carloman, renamed Pippin (April 777-8 July 810)

A3.B5 Louis I The Pious (778-20 June 840)

•m1. Ermengard:

A3.B5.C1.1 Lothaire(795-855)

A3.B5.C1.2 Pepin (797-838)

A3.B5.C1.3 Rotrude (800-)

A3. B5.C1.4 Berta or Adelaide

A3.B5.C1.5 Hildegrard (c802-857)

A3.B5.C1.6 Louis (806-876)

•m2. Judith:

A3.B5.C2.1 Gisela (c819-c874)

A3.B5.C2.2 Charles (823-877)

A3.B5.C2.3? Daughter

•'m'3.Theodelinde? / Concubine:

A3.B5.C3.1 Alpais (c793-852)

A3.B5.C2 Arnoul (794-841)

A3.B6 Lothair (778-6 February 779/780)

A3.B7 Bertha (779-826)

A3.B8 Gisela (781-808)

A3.B9 Hildegarde (782-783)

A4. Gersuinda

A4.B1 Adaltrude (b.774)

A5. Madelgard

A5.B1 Ruodhaid (775-810)

A6. Fastrada

A6.B1 Theodrada (b.784)

A6.B2 Hiltrude (b.787)

A7. Luitgard

A8. Amaltrude

A8.B1 Alpaida (b.794)

A9. Regina

A9.B1 Drogo (801-855)

A9.B2 Hugh (802-844)

A10. Ethelind:

A10.B1 Richbod (805-844)

A10.B2 Theodoric (b. 807)

Family/Spouse: Regina. was born about 770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hugh "L'abbe" Bastard of The Holy Roman Empire was born in 802; died on 14 Jun 844 in Aachen.
2. Drogo of Metz was born in 801; died in 855.

married Fastrada in 784. (daughter of Radulf Count Of Frasconia) was born about 753 in Ingelheim, Rheinhessen, Hesse, Darmstadt, Prussia; died on 10 Aug 794 in Frankfert, Hessen, Nassau, Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Theodorata was born in 784.
2. Hildtrude was born in 787.

married Hildegard of Vinzgouw in 771. Hildegard (daughter of Gerold Vinzgau., I) was born in 757 in Aachen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died on 30 Apr 783 in Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rotrude Charlemagne was born in 775; died on 6 Jun 810.
2. Charles The Younger was born in 772; died on 4 Dec 811.
3. Hildegarde was born in 782; died in 783.
4. Gisela was born in 781; died in 808.
5. Carloman was born in 773; died on 8 Jul 810.
6. Lothair was born in 778; died on 6 Feb 779.
7. Holy Roman Emperor Louis I "The Pious" Holy Roman Emperor. was born in Aug 778 in Casseneuil, Lot-Et-Garonne, France; was christened in 814; died on 20 Jun 840 in Ingelheim, Hessen, Germany; was buried in 840 in Aachen Cathedral, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia.
8. Adalaid Charlemagne was born in 774.
9. Bertha was born in 779; died in 826.

Family/Spouse: Himiltrude. was born in in Aachen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died in in Aachen, Stadt Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Pippin The Hunchback was born in 769; died in 811.

Family/Spouse: Gersuinda. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Adaltrude Charlemagne was born in 774.

Family/Spouse: Madelgard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ruodhaid was born in 775; died in 810.

married Desiderata in 770. (daughter of Desiderius) was born in 755 in Lombardy, Italy; died in 790 in Didier, Seine St Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married Luitgard in 794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ethelind. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richbod was born in 805; died in 844.
2. Theodoric was born in 807.

Notes:

First King of the Franks (752-768) of the Carolingian dyansty. In 741 he and his brother Carloman succeeded their father, Charles Martel, as mayors of the palace and defacto rulers of the kingdom during an interregnum (737-743). After the retirement of Carloman (747), Peppin obtained the permission of Pope Zachary to depose the last of the Merovingian kings, Childeric III and assume the throne (752).

Pepin"the married Queen of the Franks Bertrada Duchess of Laon. Bertrada (daughter of Cariibert of Laon and Gisele of Aquitaine) was born in 720 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 12 Jul 783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Saint Denis, Cher, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Basilica of St. Denis

Charles married Rotrude of Trier. Rotrude (daughter of Leudwinus and Willigarde De Baviere) was born about 690 in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died about 724 in Quierzy, Department de I'Aisne, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cariibert married Gisele of Aquitaine in 719 in Laon, France. Gisele was born on 5 Jul 694 in Laon, Aisne, France; died in Apr 747 in Laon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pepin married Alpaide (Concubine) of Austrasia. Alpaide (daughter of Childebrand De Heathers and Clotilde Alpais D'heristal Dode Clothilde) was born about 654; died on 16 Dec 706 in Orplegrandmonast, Brabant, Vosges, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married Willigarde De Baviere. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martin married Bertrada Of Prum. Bertrada was born in 676 in Laon, France; died after 721 in Laon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]