Notes:

Birth:
(Vermandois)

Pepin married Rothaide de Bobbo in 839 in France. Rothaide was born in 820 in Vermand, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 15 Jun 890 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
(Vermandois)

1. Herbert Senlis de Vermandois, I was born in 857 in France; died on 23 Feb 912 in France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Web Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_Italy

Notes:

Died:
Louis the Pious condemned him to death, but 'mercifully' commuted the sentence to blinding; however, the process of blinding (carried out by means of pressing a red-hot stiletto to the eyeballs) proved so traumatic that Bernard died in agony after two day

Bernard married Kunigunda Cunegonde in 813 in Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France. Kunigunda (daughter of Herbert de Toulouse and Guiboar von Hornbach) was born in 797 in Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in 835 in Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Carloman
• _MILT: 796; He liberated Corsica "from the oppression of the Moors. His activities included a long, but unsuccessful siege of Venice in 810

Notes:

Birth:
He was born Carloman, but when his half-brother Pepin the Hunchback betrayed their father, the royal name Pepin passed to him.

Died:
He died following the unsuccessful siege of Venice

Pepin married Queen Bertha de Toulouse de GelloneBohain, Aisne, Picardie, France. Bertha (daughter of 2nd Count of Toulouse Saint William de Gellone, I and Guiboar von Hornbach) was born in 777 in Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France; died in 870 in Milano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Blinded

Herbert married Guiboar von Hornbach. Guiboar was born in 774 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died on 15 Feb 824 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: 'Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky'."
• Name: the Great
• Occupation: founder of the Carolingian Empire
• Occupation: Mayor of the Palace
• Religion: Catholic - Imposed Christianity throughout most of Europe
• _MILT: Charlemagne was engaged in almost constant battle throughout his reign. Charlemagne's empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire. In Hispania, the struggle against the Moors continued unabated
• _ORDI: 87th great grandson of Adam and Eve

Notes:

Birth:
(Heristal, formerly Neustria or Austrasia)

Buried:
Aachen Cathedral, He was laid to rest in his imperial capital of Aachen

Died:
pleurisy

Emperor married Queen of the Franks Hildegarde de Vinzgau Swabia in 771 in Germany. Hildegarde (daughter of Duke of Vinzgau Gerold von Swabia, I and Duchess of Swabia Emma von Bayern) was born in 758 in Germany; died on 30 Apr 783 in Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France; was buried in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Patron of several religious organizations, including monasteries of St. Denis and St. Martin in Tours, and Kempten Abbey
• Title: Mother of kings and emperors

Notes:

Buried:
Saint Arnoul Royal Abbey

Other Events and Attributes:

• Web Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Gellone
• Name: Guillaume d'Orange
• Ordained: St. William of Gellone was canonized in 1066, and his feast is May 28
• Religion: William founded a monastery at Gellone, near Aniane, and with Charlemagne's permission, entered the cornmunity as a monk
• _MILT: William's faithful service to Charlemagne is portrayed as an example of feudal loyalty. William's career battling Islamic Saracens is sung in epic poems in the 12th and 13th century cycle called La Geste de Garin de Monglane

Saint married Guiboar von HornbachToulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. Guiboar was born in 774 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died on 15 Feb 824 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]