Charlemagne Carolingien King of the Western Francs Holy Roman Emperor

  General Notes:

~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, , 50:13, 140:13, 146:13, 148:13, 182:5, 190:13, Charlemagne, son of Pepin III and Berthe, daughter of Charibert, count of Laon, married Hildegarde, daughter of Gerold of Swabia, Count of Linzgau, Perfect in Bavaris. With Hildigarde he was father of Pepin, King of Italy, and Louis I, who married Judith of Bavaria. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

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Co-King (with brother Carloman) of the Franks between September 768 and 771

He seized the entire kingdom of the Franks on the death of his brother, Carloman, on 4 December 771. King of the Franks between 4 December 771 and 24 January 814

King of the Lombards in Frankish Empire, between 774 and 814 Crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III, a
ceremony, said to have come as a surprise to Charlemagne, which officially revived the ancient empire of the Ceasers in the West, on 25 December 800 in the Basilica of St. Peter, Rome, Italy.

Imperator Augustus in Frankish Empire, between 25 December 800 and 814

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Charlemagne

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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Charles I King of the Franks was the son of Pepin "le Bref" King of the Franks and his wife Bertrada "au Grand Pied." "He is named first son of King Pépin and Bertrada in the Cartulaire of Saint-Bertin [Saint-Bertin, p. 56]." Charles married, as his second wife, Hildegard, daughter of Gerold Graf im Kraichgau and his wife Imma. The couple had nine children. "Thegan's Vita Hludowici Imperatoris names her "Hildigardam quæ erat de cognatione Gotefridi ducis Alamannorum" and specifies that she was the daughter of Imma [77]. The Annales Laurissenses record the death "783 pridie Kal Mai" of "Hildegardis regina" and her burial "iuxta urbem Mettensem in basilica apostolorum et beati Arnulfi" [78]." As his third wife, Charlemagne married Fastrada, daughter of Radulf Graf. They had two children. Charlemagne married a fourthtime to a woman named Liutgard. Charlemagne had many mistresses, including Himiltrud who was the mother of
Charlemagne died 28 Jan 814.

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Charlemagne & his eldest son Pepin from a tenth century copy of a lost original from about 820

Charlemagne married Hildegrade of Swabia, daughter of Gerold of Swabia Count of Linzgau & Prefect of Bavaria and Emma of Alemania, in 771.⁵²⁸ (Hildegrade of Swabia was born about 758 in Aachen, Rheinland,⁵³⁰ died on 30 Apr 783 in Thionville, Moselle ⁵³⁰ and was buried in Abbaye de St. Arnoul, Metz, Austrasia.)