Charles II the Bald King of West Franks 
Charles II the Bald was born in Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau.1 Charles II the Bald's father was Louis I the Pious de Aquitaine King of France and his mother was Judith the Fair of Bavaria. His paternal grandparents were Charlemagne King of Franks and Hildegarde Cts de Vinzgau; his maternal grandparents were Welf of Swabia Ct de Alemania and Heilwig of Saxony. He had a sister named Gisela. He had four half-brothers and two half-sisters, named Lothar I de Italia, Louis II the German, Louis, Pepin, Hildegard de Aquitaine and Adelaide Aelis. He died due to Poisoned. in Modano or Brios, France.1 General Notes
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Charles 'The Bald' King Of The Franks arranged with his two half brothers to divide the great empire of their grandfather, Charlemagne. He accomplished this by the Treaty of Verdun in 843. Charles received the western portion, thus becoming the
first to rule France as a separate kingdom.
Source: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, C293 'Royalty for Commoners', Roderick W. Stuart, 1993, p 185.
'Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants', Langston & Buck, 1986, p 197.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0635 in Heristal, Liege (Belgium) d.16 DEC 714 in Villa de Jupille, on the Meuse River, near Leige, Belgium
- b.0676 in Heristal, France d.22 OCT 741 in France
- b.0654 in Heristal, France d. in Orplegrandmonast, Brabant, Vosges, France
- b.0714 in Austrasia, France d.24 SEP 768 in France
- b.0660 d.BET. 713 - 722
- b.0690 in Austrasia, France d.0724 in Austrasia, France
- b.~ 0660
- b.2 APR 742 in Ingelheim, Rheinhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt d.28 JAN 813/14 in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), Germany
- b.0694 in Laon, Aisne, France
- b.0720 in Laon, Aisne, France d.12 JUL 783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, France
- b.0698 in Laon, Aisne, France
- b.0778 in France d.20 JUN 840 in Ingolheim
- b.0710 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia d.> 0779
- b.0758 in Savoy d.30 APR 783 in Thionville, Moselle, France
- b.BET. 709 - 724 d.0788
- b. in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia d.0798
- b.13 JUN 823 in Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau d.6 OCT 877 in Modano or Brios, France
- b.~ 0690 d.BEF. 16 JAN 761/62
- b.~ 0715 d.< 0776
- b.~ 0690
- b.~ 0745 d.0823
- b.~ 0715 d.> 0757
- b.0776 in Bavaria d.0825
- b.0800 in Bavaria d.19 APR 843 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France
- b.0780 d.> 0833
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Details of Charles II the Bald's family with Ermentrude de Orléans
Details of Charles II the Bald's family with Richildis de Autun
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Further sources/citations:
soc.genealogy.medieval @ Stein N. Wisted snw@@sorco.no, PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar, L' Arts de Verifier Les Dates, large-G675.FTW, 11615-2.ftw, large-G675.FTW, Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville @ chart 1460
Further sources/citations:
soc.genealogy.medieval @ Stein N. Wisted snw@@sorco.no, PrenticeNet: A Lineage to Caesar, L' Arts de Verifier Les Dates, large-G675.FTW, 11615-2.ftw, large-G675.FTW, Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville @ chart 1460
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