Vitter-Weaver Genealogy
Emperor Charlemagne De Herstal
748 - 814 (65 years)
Person ID: I39596 Jeff Vitter's Ancestor, Descendant, or Close Relative
750 - 787 (37 years)
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Name Charlemagne De Herstal [1, 2, 3, 4] Title Emperor Born 2 Apr 748 Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
[1, 3, 4] Gender Male Died 28 Jan 813/14 Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany [1, 3] Buried 28 Jan 813/14 Aachen Cathedral, Shrine of Karl der Große (Charlemagne), Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany [3] Siblings 1. Hermengarde De France (ID:I40337), b. 750, d. 787 (Age 37 years) 2. King Carloman De France, II (ID:I49213), b. 28 Jun 751, d. 4 Dec 771 (Age 20 years) 3. Isberge De France (ID:I71138), b. Abt 759, d. Abt 810 (Age ~ 51 years) Parents
Father King Pépin De France, III dit Le Bref (ID:I40559), b. Abt 714, d. 24 Sep 768 (Age ~ 54 years) Mother Queen Berthe Da Laon, dite Aux Grands Pieds (ID:I40701), b. Abt 720, Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France , d. 21 Jul 783, Choisy-au-Bac, Oise, Picardie, France (Age ~ 63 years) Family 1
Wife 1 Régina (ID:I71044), b. Abt 780, d. 844 (Age ~ 64 years) Married concubine [3, 5] Children 1. Drogo De Herstal (ID:I72789), b. 801, d. DECEASED 2. Hugues De France (ID:I71045), b. 802, d. 7 Jun 844, Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 42 years)Family 2
Wife 2 Ethelind (ID:I72790), d. DECEASED Children 1. Richbod De Herstal (ID:I72791), b. 805, d. 844 (Age 39 years) 2. Theodoric De Herstal (ID:I72792), b. 807, d. DECEASED Family 3
Wife 3 Queen Désirée De Lombardie (ID:I41568), d. DECEASED Married 25 Dec 770 Mayence, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany [3, 5] Annulled 771 [3, 5] Family 4
Wife 4 Queen Consort Himiltrude D'Alémanie (ID:I49216), b. Abt 742, d. Abt 780 (Age ~ 38 years) Married Abt 771 [1, 3, 5, 6] Children 1. Armaudru De Herstal (ID:I71110), d. DECEASED 2. Ida De France (ID:I71107), d. DECEASED 3. Cunégonde D' Austrasie (ID:I71101), b. Bef 760, d. 835 (Age > 75 years) 4. Prince Pépin De Herstal, the Hunchback (ID:I49215), b. Abt 768, d. 811, Prüm, Bitburg-Prum, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (Age ~ 43 years)Family 5
Wife 5 Queen Hildegard Von Vinzgau De Bavière (ID:I38510), b. 4 May 757, Schweinfurt, Bayern, Germany , d. 30 Apr 783, Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France (Age 25 years) Married 30 Apr 771 Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany [1, 3, 5] Children 1. King Charles De Herstal, dit Le Jeune (ID:I49226), b. Abt 772, d. 4 Dec 811 (Age ~ 39 years) 2. Adelaïde De Herstal (ID:I71111), b. 773, d. 774 (Age 1 years) 3. Berthe De France (ID:I71017), b. Abt 775, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany , d. 11 Mar 824 (Age ~ 49 years)4. Rotrude De France (ID:I71053), b. 1 Jan 775, Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany , d. 6 Jun 810 (Age 35 years)5. King Pépin Carloman De Herstal, I (ID:I49227), b. Apr 777, d. 8 Jul 810, Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy (Age ~ 33 years)6. Emperor Louis, I dit le Pieux (ID:I40153), b. 16 Apr 778, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France , d. 20 Jun 840, Ingelheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (Age 62 years)7. Lothair De Herstal (ID:I72795), b. 16 Apr 778, d. Between 779 and 780 (Age 0 years) 8. Gisela De Herstal (ID:I72796), b. 781, d. 808 (Age 27 years) 9. Hildegarde De Herstal (ID:I72797), b. 782, d. 783 (Age 1 years) Family 6
Wife 6 Queen Fastrada De Franconie (ID:I49224), b. Abt 765, d. 10 Aug 794, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany (Age ~ 29 years) Married 1 Oct 783 Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany [3, 5] Children 1. Redburge De France (ID:I71029), d. DECEASED 2. Théodrade De France (ID:I71031), b. 785, d. 853 (Age 68 years) 3. Hiltrude De France (ID:I71030), b. 787, d. DECEASED Family 7
Wife 7 Queen Consort Luitgard (ID:I49225), d. 4 Jun 800 Married 794 [3, 5] Family 8
Wife 8 Gersuinda (ID:I72793), d. Aft 800 Married Abt 800 Children 1. Adaltrude De Herstal (ID:I72794), b. 774, d. DECEASED Other Personal Events
Occupation Between 9 Oct 768 and 28 Jan 813/14 [1, 3] King of the Franks Occupation Between 10 Jul 774 and 28 Jan 813/14 [1, 3] King of the Lombards Occupation Between 25 Dec 800 and 28 Jan 813/14 [1, 3] Holy Roman Emperor, conferred by Pope Leon III 
Charlemagne Crowned By Pope Leo III Occupation Between 25 Dec 800 and 28 Jan 813/14 [1, 3] King of the Romans Military Service Major military leader who unified Europe and called the "Father of Europe." He fought against the Saxons to the East, the Moors/Muslims in Spain, and the Lombards in Italy. [1, 3] -
Event Map
Born - 2 Apr 748 - Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
Married - 25 Dec 770 - Mayence, Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Married - 30 Apr 771 - Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
Married - 1 Oct 783 - Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Died - 28 Jan 813/14 - Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
Buried - 28 Jan 813/14 - Aachen Cathedral, Shrine of Karl der Große (Charlemagne), Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany = Link to Google Earth -
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Charlemagne Lineage Document Histories 
How the Vitters Got to Clerval
19 years after Jeff Vitter's Aha! moment, Jean-Pierre Vitter resolves the mystery of where in Europe the Vitter family came from originally and how they got to France in the late 1700s.Genealogy Charts 
Ancestors of Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor (748–814 AD)
Co-host Jeff Vitter of the website vitter.org is a 39th great grandson of Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne de Herstal. Charlemagne's ancestors include several other kings and queens, as well as several saints and bishops. You can read a history of Charlemagne on the main webpage vitter.org/familytree
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Source Citations
- [S890] Wikipedia, Charlemagne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne - [S307] Family Database of Vitter-Weaver Family, Jeffrey & Sharon Vitter, (Name: Self; Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Date: Since 1996;), How the Vitters Got to Clerval.
19 years after Jeff Vitter's Aha! moment described above, Jean-Pierre Vitter resolves the mystery of where in Europe the Vitter family came from originally and how they got to France in the late 1700s.
https://vitter.org/familytree/histories/JeanPierreVitter.php - [S1703] Family Database of Thierry Sudre, Thierry Sudre, Ancestors and Descendants of Louis De Pujol (1656–1728).
https://gw.geneanet.org/comteroland?n=de+pujol&oc=1&p=louis - [S1751] Family Database of Charlemagne, Descendants of Charlemagne (747–814).
https://www.ffish.com/family_tree/descendants_charlemagne/d1.htm - [S1265] Geni World Family Tree, (Name: Name: MyHeritage;;), Teiric d'Autun, comte d'Autun.
https://www.geni.com/people/Thierry-I-count-of-Autun/6000000002071341413 - [S890] Wikipedia, Himiltrude.
Himiltrude (c. 742-c.780?) was the mother of Charlemagne's first-born son Pippin the Hunchback. She was acknowledged by Pope Stephen III as the wife of Charlemagne, however, is often referred to as a concubine.[1]
Life
Little is known about Himiltrude's origins. Paulus Diaconus calls her a "noble girl".[1] The appearance of her name in the fraternity books of Alemannian monasteries may suggest an affiliation with the Germanic Alemannian or Alsatian nobility,[2] while other sources make her the daughter of a Burgundian count and a granddaughter of Grimbert I, Count of Paris. It is not possible, however, to extrapolate any political ramifications from Charlemagne's relationship with Himiltrude.[1]
Himiltrude probably entered into a relationship with Charlemagne during the lifetime of his father, Pepin the Younger.[1] When Charlemagne acceded to the throne in 768, Himiltrude remained unnamed in official sources – contrary to the example set by Charlemagne's mother, Bertrada of Laon.[1] Himiltrude bore Charles a son called Pépin. Shortly after Pepin's birth, an alliance was formulated between Charlemagne and the King of the Lombards, Desiderius. To seal the alliance, it was agreed that Charlemagne should marry Desiderius' daughter (called Desiderata by modern scholars).
Himiltrude was dismissed at that time and disappears from historical records. A grave excavated in the monastery of Nivelles was found to contain the corpse of a forty-year-old woman, possibly identifiable with Himiltrude. If so, Himiltrude would appear to have died long after 770, although if and when she retired to Nivelles cannot be deduced.[1]
Her son Pépin, who suffered from a spinal deformity and was called "the Hunchback", was eclipsed by Charlemagne's sons from his later marriage to Hildegard. Following an attempted rebellion against his father, Pepin was confined to a monastery.[1]
Marital status
The nature of Himiltrude's relationship to Charlemagne is a matter of dispute. Charlemagne's biographer Einhard calls her a "concubine"[3] and Paulus Diaconus speaks of Pippin's birth "before legal marriage",[1] whereas a letter by Pope Stephen III refers to Charlemagne and his brother Carloman as being already married (to Himiltrude and Gerberga), and advises them not to dismiss their wives.[1]
Historians have interpreted the information in different ways. Some, such as Pierre Riché, follow Einhard in describing Himiltrude as a concubine.[4] Others, Dieter Hägemann for example, consider Himiltrude a wife in the full sense.[2] Still others subscribe to the idea that the relationship between the two was "something more than concubinage, less than marriage" and describe it as a Friedelehe, a supposed form of marriage unrecognized by the Church and easily dissolvable. This form of relationship is often seen in a conflict between Christian marriage and more flexible Germanic concepts.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himiltrude
- [S890] Wikipedia, Charlemagne.