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CHARLEMAGNE the Great Emperor King of the Franks - Holy Roman Emperor

742-814
Born: Hesse, Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
Died: Aachen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

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  • Story: Lineage: Clovis The Riparian To Charlemagne

    Lineage: Clovis the Riparian to Charlemagne A Crouch Family Heritage Association Family Tree page, Nance family line<br> <br> Ancestors of Crouches and Nances are in <strong>bold</strong> type. Each numbered line counts as one generation. The main person listed in line 18, for example, would be the child of the main person listed in line 17. Numbers don&#39;t always start at 1. <ul><li>1. <strong>Clovis the Riparian</strong>, Frankish King of Cologne, liv. 420, kinsman of Clovis I. </li><li>2, <strong>Childebert</strong>, King of Cologne, liv. 450 </li><li>3. <strong>Siegbert, the Lame</strong>, King of Cologne; murdered 509, at the instigation of a kinsman, Clovis I, King of the Salic Franks, by his own son. </li><li>4. <strong>Cloderic the Parricide</strong>, King of Cologne, murdered 509, by agents of his kinsman, Clovis I. Cloderic m. a kinswoman of St. Clothilde, the Burgundian Queen of Clovis I. Children included: </li><li>5A: <strong>Blithilde</strong> m. <strong>Ansbertus</strong> (73-5), the Gallo-Roman Senator </li><li>5B. <strong>Munderic of Vitry-en-Perthois</strong>, very young in 509, when his father was murdered, revolted against Thierry I, who killed him; m. <strong>Arthemia</strong>, sister of Sacerdos, the Gallo-Roman Archbishop of Lyons, 542-559. Two sons were: </li><li>6A. St. Gondulfus, Bishop of Tongres, 599; </li><li>6B. <strong>Bodegisel</strong>, m. <strong>Palatina</strong>, dau. of <strong>Gallus Magnus</strong>, Bishop of Troyes, ca. 562. </li><li>7. <strong>Bodegisel I</strong>I, m. <strong>Oda</strong>, a Suevian. (He appears to have been Governor of Aquitaine, and was murdered at Carthage returning from an Embassy to Constantinople, 588). </li><li>8. <strong>Saint Arnulf</strong>, b. ca. 13 Aug. 582, d. 16 Aug. 640, Mayor of the Palace; Bishop of Metz, 612; m. about 596, Dode (Clothilde). </li><li>9. <strong>Duke Ansgise</strong>, b. 602, d. 685, Mayor of the Palace to Siegbert, 632, son of Dagobert; m. before 639, <strong>St. Begga</strong>, d. 694, dau. of <strong>Pepin of Landen</strong>, Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia, d. 694, and his wife, <strong>Itta</strong>, dau. of <strong>Arnoldus, Bishop of Metz</strong>, and niece of St. Modoald, Bishop of Treves, sons, it is said, of <strong>Ansbertus, the Senator</strong> (73-5). </li><li>10.<strong> Pepin of Heristal</strong>, Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia, d. 714; by concubine, <strong>Aupais</strong>, he was father of Charles Martel. </li><li>11. <strong>Charles Martel</strong>, b. 689, d. 741, Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia, victor over the Saracens at Poitiers, 732; m. (1) <strong>Rotrou</strong> (14B-11), d. 724, dau. of <strong>Leutwinus</strong>, d. 713 a.k.a St. Lievin, Bishop of Treves. </li><li>12. <strong>Pepin the Short</strong>, b. 714, d. 768, Mayor of the Palace; deposed the last of the Faineant (Merovingian) kings and became himself the first king of the Franks of the second race, 751-768; m. Bertha, d. 783, dau. of <strong>Count Canbert of Laon</strong>. </li><li>13. <strong>Charlemagne</strong> (14B-13), b. 2 Apr. 747, d. 28 Jan. 813/4, King of France, 768-814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor, 25 Dec. 800; m. ca. 771, <strong>Hildegarde</strong> (75-5), b. ca. 758, d. 30 Apr. 783, dau. of Count <strong>Geroud of Swabia</strong>. </li></ul><p> <br> Quoted from &quot;Genealogy of the Nances in Cornwall&quot; by Martin L. &quot;Pete&quot; Nance, 1970.<br> who quoted from Mr. Frederick Lewis Weis who states: &quot;The Compiler purposely has not had his work copyrighted, so that any descendant or scholar may use freely whatever he desires&quot;.<br> <br> Mr. Harold King Bowen,428 Vista Avenue, Pasadena, California, has compiled and copyrighted &quot;The Book of Adam&quot; which includes the genealogy of the Bible and its connecting link to most of the royal families found in this section of the NANCE REGISTER.<br><br>FROM:</p>http://patriot.net/~crouch/abor/L24.html

  • Story: Charlemagne's Death

    Persephone sarcophagus of Charlemagne<br><br>In 813, Charlemagne called Louis the Pious, king of Aquitaine, his only surviving legitimate son, to his court. There he crowned him with his own hands as co-emperor and sent him back to Aquitaine. He then spent the autumn hunting before returning to Aachen on 1 November. In January, <strong>he fell ill with pleurisy</strong> (Einhard 59). He took to his bed on 21 January and as Einhard tells it:<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong> He died January twenty-eighth, the seventh day from the time that he took to his bed, at nine o&#39;clock in the morning, after partaking of the Holy Communion, in the seventy-second year of his age and the forty-seventh of his reign.</strong><br><br>He was buried on the day of his death, in Aachen Cathedral, although the cold weather and the nature of his illness made such a hurried burial unnecessary. A later story, told by Otho of Lomello, Count of the Palace at Aachen in the time of Otto III, would claim that he and Emperor Otto had discovered Charlemagne&#39;s tomb: the emperor, they claimed, was seated upon a throne, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre, his flesh almost entirely incorrupt. In 1165, Frederick I re-opened the tomb again, and placed the emperor in a sarcophagus beneath the floor of the cathedral.[8] In 1215 Frederick II would re-inter him in a casket made of gold and silver.<br><br>Charlemagne&#39;s death greatly affected many of his subjects, particularly those of the literary clique who had surrounded him at Aachen. An anonymous monk of Bobbio lamented:<br>&ldquo; From the lands where the sun rises to western shores, People are crying and wailing...the Franks, the Romans, all Christians, are stung with mourning and great worry...the young and old, glorious nobles, all lament the loss of their Caesar...the world laments the death of Charles...O Christ, you who govern the heavenly host, grant a peaceful place to Charles in your kingdom. Alas for miserable me.[9] &rdquo;<br><br>He was<strong> succeeded by his surviving son, Louis,</strong> who had been crowned the previous year. His empire lasted only another generation in its entirety; its division, according to custom, between Louis&#39;s own sons after their father&#39;s death laid the foundation for the modern states of France and Germany.<br>

 
 
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