General Notes

Source:  Ancestry.com.  Linda Smith , "herrick", 2001


Event: was captured and imprisoned at Chãateau-Thierry on the Marne Misc 923
Event: elected King of Lorraine Title 911
Note: From 912 Charles devoted most of his energy and interest to Lorraineand spent much time there.
Event: Reigned BET 898 AND 923
Note: Charles was a child when Odo of Neustria was elected king by thenobles. Archbishop Fulk had young Charles privately crowned in 892/3,while Odo was still alive and ruling, evidently to secure his eventualsuccession. But Charles was no co-ruler with Odo. When Odo was dyingin 898, he urged the claims of 19 year old Charles as king of thewestern Franks.


Source:  Ancestry.com.  Denise Oberlies, "Denise's Research Files", 2003


Royalty for Commoners by Robert W. Stuar t, Genealogical Publishing Co.,
Revised 2nd Edition, 1995:
Gen 171-37 - Char les III "the Simple", King of West Franks, 893, ;b. 17
Sept 879; d. 7 Oct 929 , Peronne, Somme, France; bur St. Fursy; m. (3)
918, Edgiva (Eadgifu, Aedgifu , Princess of England: m. (1) Apr 907,
Fredruna of Hamaland, d. 10 Feb 917, d au of Dietrich, Count of Hamaland.
ACADEMIC AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
CHARLES II I, FRANKISH EMPEROR (CHARLES THE FAT)
Charles III, or Charles the Fat, b. 839 , d. Jan. 13, 888, Frankish
Emperor, reunited for the last time the empire of CHARLEMAGNE (except
Burgundy). He was the youngest son of Louis The German, from whom he
inherited (876) the kingdom of Swabia. Three years later, on the
resignation of his sick
brother Carloman, he became king of Italy, and he was crowned emperor by
Pope John VIII in 881. His succession to Saxony on the death (882) of his
other brother Louis The Younger, made Charles King of all the East Franks
(Germany). The deaths of the West Frankish kings Louis III ( 882) and
Carolman (884) gave him France. Charles was deposed in 887 by Arnulf .
Encyclopedia Britannica Online at britannica.com:
Charles III
born Sept. 17, 879
died Oct. 7, 929, Péronne, Fr.
by name Charles The Simple, French C harles Le Simple king of France
(893-922), whose authority came to be accepte d by Lorraine and who
settled the Northmen in Normandy but who became the fir st Carolingian
ruler of the western kingdom to lose his crown.
The posthumou s son of Louis II the Stammerer, Charles was too young to
assume the throne o n the death of his half-brother, Carloman, in 884 or
that of his cousin, Char les the Fat, in 888. On Jan. 28, 893, however, he
was crowned king by Fulk, a rchbishop of Reims; and, although he renounced
his rights after civil war in 897, the death of King Eudes in the
following year brought him general recogn ition as king.
Charles was strongly under the influence of Robert, brother of the dead
Eudes. It was Robert's victory against the Northmen at Chartres in 9 11
which paved the way for the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte later that
ye ar, by which Charles ceded territory, in the area later known as
Normandy, to the Viking leader Rollo and his men; in return, Rollo became
a Christian and Charles's vassal. The Normans who had such an impact on
Europe in the 11th a nd 12th centuries were the final product of this
settlement.
In 911 also, th e magnates of Lorraine (Lotharingia) accepted the
authority of Charles on the death of the last Carolingian king of the
East Franks, Louis the Child. Char les's preoccupation with Lotharingian
affairs and councillors alienated the n obles of Neustria, however, and in
922 they elected Robert king. Charles kill ed Robert in battle in 923 but
was soon taken prisoner by Herbert, count of V ermandois, who used him for
his own gain against Rudolf, Robert's son-in-law and the new king.



Source:  Ancestry.com.  Jeremiah Burnham, "Burnham, Bean, Willard & Barton", 2003

Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on
Page: Charles III
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 148-17

Note:
King of France 893-922, known as "The Simple"

Gave his daughter, Gisella, to Rollo, the Viking, in order to stop the raids on the coast. Gave the coast to Rollo to protect. Rollo thus became the first Duke of Normandy.

SOURCES:
Charles III, King de France
(Andre Roux: Scrolls,191.)
(Rosamond, Frankish kingdom under Carolingians, Page 308.)
(Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, Page 130, Line 171-37.)
(Andre Castelot, Histoire de La France, Tome 1, Page 387).

Also Known As: Charles "Le Simple". Born: on 17 Sep 879 in Clermont, Oise, France, son of Louis II, King de France and Adelaide=Adelheid de Paris . (Or was his mother Judith. If he was born posthumously it would have been by the second wife)

Note - between 893 and 929: Charles III was the posthumous son of Louis "Le Begue", and was crowned King in 893 by Fouques, Archbishop of Reims, with the full support of Odon's brother Robert, Richard of Burgundy, William of the Auvergne and Herbert of Vermandois. Baldwin (Baudouin) of Flanders made his submission later. He was a rival of the effective King, the Count Eudes who, upon Odon's death in 898, recognized Charles' rights. With the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911), Charles gave Normandy to the Viking Chief Rollo making him first Duke of Normandy, and pacifying the Seine Vikings. That year, 911, Charles also became King of Lotharingia, which may have been related in part to the fact that his first wife, Frederuna who bore him 6 daughters, was Lotharingian. He revived the title Rex Francorum. In 919, when Charles fought the Magyars, none of the nobles except for Heriveus, the Archbishop of Reims sent him any troops for assistance. In 920, Robert led a revolt against Charles.

Some Lotharingian nobles, led by Gilbert (Gislebert) son of Ragnar Longneck, declared their independence from Charles' authority. Gilbert invoked the aid of the new ruler of the East Franks, a Saxon known as Henry "the Fowler" ("l'Oiseleur"). Charles, after quelling the resistance of the Lotharingian Count Ricoin made a treaty with Henry at Bonn in 921. They met on equal terms as Rex Francorum Occidentalium (Charles) and Rex Francorum Orientalium (Henry). Charles was deposed in 922 by Herbert, Count of Vermandois upon the death of his main supporter, Richard of Burgundy. Charles and his favorite Hagano fled to hide in Lotharingia. During his absence, Robert was elected King and crowned by Walter, Archbishop of Sens under the nose of Heriveus who was on his deathbed (he died 3 days later). Charles met Robert in battle at Soissons on 15 June 923. Robert was killed, but the forces led by his son Hugh and by Herbert of Vermandois defeated the King's army and Charles retreated. On 13 July 923, a new King Ralph, the eldest son of Richard The Justiciar of Burgundy was elected King and anointed in the Church of St. Medard at Soissons by Walter, Archbishop of Sens.

Married between 905 and 929: N. concubines; Charles Le Simple had several concubines throughout his adulthood.
Married in Apr 907: Frederune de Lotharingie, daughter of Dietrich, Count de Lotharingie ; Charles III Le Simple had 6 daughters with Frederune, his first wife.
Married in 917: Eadgifu=Ogive=Hadwige, Princess of England, daughter of Edward I, King of England and Eadgifu=Edgiva of Kent.

Died: on 7 Oct 929 in Peronne, Somme, France, at age 50 Charles was murdered while in captivity at the Tower of Peronne on 7-Oct-929. Charles III is buried at Saint Fursy.