I Charles 
I was born in 0953 in Rheims, Marne, France. I's father was Louis IV "D'outremer and his mother was Gerberge Of Saxony. His maternal grandparents were Henry I "The Fowler and Mathilda Von Ringleheim. He had a sister named Matilda Of. He was the younger of the two children. He had two half-sisters named Alberade Of and Gerberge Of Hainaut And. He died in Kerker, Orléans, France.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Duke Of Lower Lorraine
Charles I (b. 953--d. May 21, 992?, Orléans, Fr.), duke of Lower Lorraine, head of the only surviving legitimate line of the Carolingian dynasty by 987, and an unsuccessful claimant for the French throne.
Son of Louis IV of France, Charles was banished by his brother, King Lothair, in 977. Receiving the duchy of Lower Lorraine from Otto II of Germany in the same year, he conspired unsuccessfully with Otto to dethrone Lothair but then reversed his policy, made peace with Lothair, and plotted against the new German king, Otto III. After the deaths of Lothair (986) and Lothair's son and successor Louis V (987), Charles asserted his claim to the French throne. But Adalbero, archbishop of Reims, convinced the assembly of Frankish nobles that the Frankish crown was elective rather than hereditary and that Charles was unworthy of the kingship. The assembly then proclaimed Hugh Capet king of France.
Charles did not abandon his claim but, in 991, was seized and handed over to Hugh, who kept him in prison until his death. One son, Otto, succeeded him as duke of Lower Lorraine, dying about 1012; two other sons died obscurely. With them the legitimate male line of the Carolingians came to an end. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97, CHARLES I, DUKE OF LOWER LORRAINE]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.10 Sep 920 in Laon, Aisne, France
- b.0953 in Rheims, Marne, France d.21 May 992 in Kerker, Orléans, France
- b.~ 0786 d.< 0844
- b.0816 d.0913
- b.~ 0786
- b.~ 0836
- b.0826 d.0824
- b.0876 in Germany d.2 Jul 936 in Memleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.Aug 0778 in Casseneuil, Lot-Et-Garonne, France d.20 Jun 840 in Petersaue, Ingelheim, Rhinehesse, Hesse
- b.~ 0804 in Aquitane, France d.28 Aug 876 in Frankfurt, Germany
- b.~ 0778 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium d.3 Oct 818
- b.~ 0780 d.0819
- d.31 Jan 874-875
- b.~ 0780
- b.~ 0913 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Germany d.5 May 984 in Rheims, Marne, France
- b.~ 0812 d.< 0891
- b.~ 0842 d.~ 0891
- b.~ 0812
- b.~ 0872
- b.~ 0768 d.> 0834
- b.~ 0770
- b.0890 in Memleben, Saxony, Germany d.14 Mar 966-967 in Memleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.~ 0830 d.~ 0873
- b.~ 0860
- b.~ 0864 d.Bef 26 Oct 907
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Children
Gerberge Of Lower Lorraine
She died about 1017. She was buried in Cloister Of St. Gertrude At Nivelles.
They had a son named Charles Of.
Family Notes
CHAN17 May 2004
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