Project Charlemagne

Project Charlemagne aims to get all known descendants of Charlemagne onto Familypedia. There is only one way to do that: work from the earlier to the later generations. The "generation-by-generation" approach also gives most insight into who married whom, and who killed whom. Charlemagne's descendants started to marry one another as of generation 5, and this became the norm in later generation. Fierce rivalry broke out in generation 3, and many of Charlemagne's descendants were slain by their (remote) cousins.

Status
Generations 1-4 are complete: All individuals and all their children have a page and an info page on Familypedia. Furthermore, all individuals of generation 5 have a page too, but their children do not necessarily.

Rules
The rules of this project are simple:
 * 1) Select a person from the list below;
 * 2) Add pages for his/her children (preferably including several "source" links each);
 * 3) Add the children to the list of Generation N+1;
 * 4) Remove the person from the list of Generation N.

Creating shortest lines first
Living people interested in their "generation number" will want to know the shortest line. A little unpredictable; but the children of the youngest person in a generation are likely to be part of anyone's shortest line.

Sources of "facts"

 * See also the /sources subpage for longer list


 * Some sources of facts or assumptions that are easy to find and work from (but are not necessarily correct); sites that seem fairly comprehensive, at least for early centuries
 * Descendants of Charlemagne 2
 * Charlemagne on Ton Deunhouwer's file of 100,000 descendants - "Allowed copying data and persons (under construction) for own risk!!!!!!!." - Descendants listed are stated to be as follows (our generation number followed by number): 2/11, 3/25, 4/48, 5/80, 6/134, 7/214, 8/301, 9/405, 10/521, 11/647, 12/799, 13/936, 14/1101, 15/1273, and so on up to 43.
 * Hull University Royals site - © 1994-2005 Brian Tompsett
 * Dutch descendants of Charlemagne
 * FFish
 * Descendants pages by David A Blocher
 * Herbert Stoyan's "complete list of the first 13 generations (according to E. Brandenburg) and later generations"

Ideally any relationships shown should be compared over many such "sources", with specific webpage references listed for other users to check and go beyond.

To be done: Generation 5
(See also Descendants of Charlemagne (Generation 5))
 * 1) Baba di Spoleto (?-?) without a trace
 * 2) Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (c865-918) daughters without a trace
 * 3) Ealswid of Flanders (c865-?)
 * 4) Ermentrud of Flanders (c869-896)
 * 5) Charles the Simple (879-929) five daughters, two sons without a trace
 * 6) Frederuna (c912-?)
 * 7) Adelheid (c912-?)
 * 8) Rotrud (c912-?)
 * 9) Hildegard (c912-?)
 * 10) Arnulf (?-?)
 * 11) Drogo (?-?)
 * 12) Alpais (?-?)
 * 13) Conrad di Spoleto (?-?) without a trace
 * 14) Cunigunda (?-?) without a trace
 * 15) Gunhilde de Vermandois (?-?) without a trace
 * 16) Hedwige de la Marche (?-903) two sons, one daughter without a trace
 * 17) Thankmar von Sachsen (?-bef912)
 * 18) Liudolf von Sachsen (?-bef912)
 * 19) Irminburg von Sachsen (?-bef936)
 * 20) Hildebert I de Limoges (865-916) one child without a trace
 * 21) Hildegard (864-?) without a trace

To be done: Generation 6
(See also Descendants of Charlemagne (Generation 6))
 * 1) Adalulf of Flanders (c890-933)
 * 2) Adele of Vermandois (?-?)
 * 3) Amuna d'Angouleme (c865-?)
 * 4) Arnulf I, Count of Flanders (c890-965)
 * 5) Béatrice of Vermandois (c880-931)
 * 6) Berengar II of Italy (?-966)
 * 7) Boso d'Arles (885-936)
 * 8) Cunegonde di Friuli (c893-aft923)
 * 9) Cunigunde of Vermandois (?-943)
 * 10) Dadilde de Pailhars (c860-?)
 * 11) Donat II de Bigorre (c860-930)
 * 12) Ebalus of Aquitanie (c870-935)
 * 13) Eberhard of Bonngau and Keldachgau (?-?)
 * 14) Eberhardt III de Lebarten (898-927)
 * 15) Ermengard di Tuscania (?-932)
 * 16) Ermengaud de Rouergue (c870-937)
 * 17) Ermentrude (c912-?)
 * 18) Gauzlin du Maine (?-?)
 * 19) Giselbert de Lorraine (c885-939)
 * 20) Godolinde d'Aubusson (926-?)
 * 21) Heinrich von Sachsen (876-936)
 * 22) Herbert II, Count of Vermandois (884-943)
 * 23) Herve I de Montagne (?-?)
 * 24) Hugues II du Maine (c920-c992)
 * 25) Hugh d'Arles (bef885-948)
 * 26) Judith di Friuli (?-?)
 * 27) Louis IV (c920-954)
 * 28) Louis the Blind (c880-aft928)
 * 29) Luitold I di Friuli (885-?)
 * 30) Raymond I de Ribagorce (c865-916)
 * 31) Regnier II de Hainaut (890-932)
 * 32) Renaud I d'Aubusson (915-960)
 * 33) Robert I d'Aubusson (905-942)
 * 34) Roger II de Laon (?-942)
 * 35) Ursus I de Benevent (881-915)

To be done: Generation 7
(See also Descendants of Charlemagne (Generation 7))
 * 1) Borrell II de Barcelone (c946-992) x Ledgarda de Toulouse (c945-c986)
 * 2) Gautier I de Vexin (c922-aft992)
 * 3) Geraud I de Limoges (c916-986)
 * 4) Gilbert de Chalon (c900-956)
 * 5) Hermann Billung (?-973)
 * 6) Lisois de Craon (959-1007)
 * 7) Odakar VI de Boulogne (c910-c954) without trace
 * 8) Roger II de Laon (?-942)
 * 9) Wichmann Billung (916-944)

To be done: Generation 8
(See also Descendants of Charlemagne (Generation 8))
 * 1) Evrard II de Ham (c960-?)
 * 2) Guaimario II di Salerno (?-946)
 * 3) Guillaume de Toulouse (947-1037)
 * 4) Hildouin III de Ponthieu (c933-c1009)

To be done: Generation 9
(See also Descendants of Charlemagne (Generation 9))
 * 1) Raoul II de Woevre (932-?)
 * 2) Robert II of Senlis (?-1028)