https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Aureus_of_St._Emmeram
Charles MP
Dutch: Karel, Norwegian: Karl den Skallete, le Chauve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Aureus_of_St._Emmeram
Charles MP
Dutch: Karel, Norwegian: Karl den Skallete, le Chauve
Thanks for sharing this, Raymond! I haven't seen a photo of the Codex Aureus in a long time and it's really quite beautiful. Can you imagine how stunning it would have been when it was first made, before the colors dulled?
Charles II the Bald is showing as my 33rd great grandfather, though through a line I know nothing about. I'll have to research it and see if it's a valid one. :)
Charles II the Bald, King of the Franks is in the shortest line my 31st great grandfather, both my parents descend from him through John I the Conqueror, Duke of Brabant and Limburg, my proven paternal and maternal 17th great grandfather.
John I the Victorious, Duke of Brabant and Limburg
→ Henry III, Duke of Brabant (his father)
→ Henry II, Duke of Brabant (his father)
→ Mathilde of Boulogne, Duchess of Brabant (his mother) → Marie I, Countess of Boulogne (her mother)
→ Stephen I, King of England (her father)
→ Étienne Henri 'Stephen' II, Comte de Blois et Champagne (his father)
→ Gersende du Maine (his mother)
→ Heribert I "Éveille-chien" du Maine, comte du maine (her father)
→ Hughes III du Maine (his father)
→ Hughes II du Maine, Comte du Maine (his father)
→ David or Hugues du Maine, I (his father)
→ Hugues I, Comte du Maine (his father)
→ Rothilde of the Franks (his mother)
→ Charles II the Bald, King of the Franks (her father)
Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor is your 31st great grandfather.
You → Eleanor Kathryn Chain (your mother)
→ Elga Joseph Guillory (her father) → Shelby P Guillory (his father) → Honoré Guillory (his father) → Valery Guillory (his father) → Emelie Guillory (his mother) → Joseph Noel Roy (her father) → Joseph Carlos Roy dit Châtellerault (his father) → Marie-Anne Janvier (his mother) → Marie Dorothee Dubois Dit Dubois dite Brisebois (her mother) → Anne Julienne Dumont (her mother) → Marie-Anne d'Anglure (her mother) → Jean d'Anglure (her father) → Jean d'Anglure (his father) → Saladin d'Anglure, baron de Conflans (his father) → Marguerite de Montmorency (his mother) → Marguerite d'Orgemont, dame de Chantilly (her mother) → Jacqueline Paynel (her mother) → Jeanne Paynel (her mother) → Isabelle de Meulan, dame de Hambie et de Milly (her mother) → Galeran de Meulan, seigneur de la Queue, de Neufbourg et de Gournay (her father) → Amauri II de Meulan, baron de La-Queue-en-Brie (his father) → Amaury I de Meulan, seigneur de Gournay (his father) → Agnès de Montfort, dame de Gournay (his mother) → Amauri de Montfort, III, Count d'Evreux & Seigneur de Montfort (her father) → Simon L'Ainé de Montfort, I (his father) → Amaury I, seigneur de Montfort (his father) → Lord Guillaume de Hainaut, Seigneur de Montfort-l'Amaury & Count de Haynault (his father) → Judith de Cambrai (his mother) → Bertha de Valenciennes, comtesse de Cambrai (her mother) → Raoul de Cambrai, comte et Abbé de Cambrai (her father)
→ Judith, countess of Flanders (his mother) → Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor (her father)
Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor is your 28th great grandfather's wife's grandfather.
You → Eleanor Kathryn Chain (your mother)
→ Elga Joseph Guillory (her father) → Shelby P Guillory (his father) → Honoré Guillory (his father) → Valery Guillory (his father) → Emelie Guillory (his mother) → Joseph Noel Roy (her father) → Joseph Carlos Roy dit Châtellerault (his father) → Marie-Anne Janvier (his mother) → Marie Dorothee Dubois Dit Dubois dite Brisebois (her mother) → Anne Julienne Dumont (her mother) → Marie-Anne d'Anglure (her mother) → Jean d'Anglure (her father) → Jean d'Anglure (his father) → Saladin d'Anglure, baron de Conflans (his father) → Marguerite de Montmorency (his mother) → Marguerite d'Orgemont, dame de Chantilly (her mother) → Jacqueline Paynel (her mother) → Jeanne Paynel (her mother) → Isabelle de Meulan, dame de Hambie et de Milly (her mother) → Galeran de Meulan, seigneur de la Queue, de Neufbourg et de Gournay (her father) → Amauri II de Meulan, baron de La-Queue-en-Brie (his father) → Amaury I de Meulan, seigneur de Gournay (his father) → Waleran IV de Beaumont, Comte de Meulan, 1st Earl of Worcester (his father) → Elisabeth de Vermandois, dame de Crépy (his mother) → Hugues I 'Magnus', Comte de Vermandois (her father) → Henry I, king of France (his father) → Robert II Capet, "the Pious" king of the Franks (his father) → Hugues Capet, roi des Francs (his father) → Hugh "Magnus" of Paris, count of Paris, duke of the Franks (his father) → Judith du Maine (his wife)
→ Rothilde of the Franks (her mother) → Charles II "the Bald", Western Emperor (her father)