Edward LANE (1664-1710)

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William LANE, son of Richard LANE and Alice BURWELL, was born c. 1640 in Redcliff Parish, Bristol, England. He died on 11 Oct 1705 in Bristol, England. He married Christian.

In 1681, William Lane bought 1000 acres from William Penn, a personal friend. His son, Edward Lane, from 1698-1705 bought 4,000 more acres on both sides of the Perkiomen Creek.

He built and operated an inn of the west bank of the creek... now the oldest hotel in the United States.

William Lane, who married Cecilia Love, was a grocer in Bristol, England and a Quaker. William was one of the first purchasers of land (500 A.) from Wm. Penn. Edward is thought to have come to PA prior to 1683. He resided temporarily in Bristol Twp, where 250 acres of the land of his father were laid out for him.

(Pennypacker)¹

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Christian (also known as Lane) was born c. 1640. She died on 15 May 1674. Friends Quarterly Meeting Records, Bristol. She and William LANE had the following children:

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Richard LANE, son of Thomas LANE OF BENTLEY and Alice Anne BAGOT, was born on 2 Jul 1610 in Blithfield, Staffordshire, England. He died in 1686 in Surry, Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America. He married Alice BURWELL.

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Alice BURWELL was born in 1612 in Lincolnshire, England. She died on 4 Sep 1678 in Virginia, British Colonial America. She and Richard LANE had the following children:

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Thomas LANE OF BENTLEY, son of John LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY and Jane Martha LITTLETON, was born on 17 May 1585 in Bentley, Staffordshire, England. He was an Esquire Justice of the Peace. He married Alice Anne BAGOT on 8 Feb 1608 in Blithfield, Staffordshire, England. He died on 13 Jun 1660 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England.

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Alice Anne BAGOT was born on 7 Sep 1589 in Blithfield. She died in Jan 1636 in Staffordshire, England. She and Thomas LANE OF BENTLEY had the following children:

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John LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY, son of Thomas Francis LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY and Catherine TRENTHAM, was born in 1564 in Northamptonshire, England. He married Jane Martha LITTLETON in 1580 in Worcestershire, England. He died on 25 Jun 1605 in Pillaton, Staffordshire, England.

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Jane Martha LITTLETON was born in Apr 1566 in Pillaton. She had the title 'Lady'. She died in 1598 in Bentley, Staffordshire, England. She and John LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY had the following children:

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Thomas Francis LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY, son of John LANE OF BENTLEY HYDE 1st 1st and Margaret Catherine PATRICK, was born in 1531 in King's Bromley, Staffordshire, England. He married Catherine TRENTHAM c. 1555 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England. He died on 9 Mar 1586 in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England.

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Catherine TRENTHAM was born in 1520 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. She had the title 'Lady'. She died in 1596 in Rickmansworth, Three Rivers District, Hertfordshire, England. She and Thomas Francis LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY had the following children:

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John LANE OF BENTLEY HYDE 1st 1st, son of Richard LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY and Anne Elizabeth DE HARCOURT, was born in Bentley, Staffordshire, England. He had the title 'Sir'. He died on 15 Nov 1576 in Bentley. He married Margaret Catherine PATRICK.

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Margaret Catherine PATRICK was born in 1503 in Harcourt, Staffordshire, England. She died in 1578 in Bentley. She and John LANE OF BENTLEY HYDE 1st had the following children:

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Richard LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY was born in 1474 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. He married Anne Elizabeth DE HARCOURT in 1487 in Stanton Harcourt. He died on 28 Jan 1518 in Bentley, Staffordshire, England.²

Richard died the 28th of January in 1517/18. Anna died in April of the same year. They were buried at Brewood Co., Stafford in which Church an alabaster slab about 7 feet long and 3 feet wide was discovered in 1878 by the removal of some paving in the South Aisle. On this slab were two figures: that of a knight in full armor with sward sheathed, and his lady with "choir and pomander box". Between the figures were two coats of arms: that of the knight being "a chevron gules between three mullets azure". That of the lady being undecipherable. At the foot of the slab were five small, female figures and three males. The inscription read: "Here lie Richard Lane, armigher, of Hide, & Anna his wife." source: "Country Roads and Lanes, The Ancestry and Descendants of General Jackson Lane" by Fannie Lane Steele

https://archive.org/details/collectionsfor1910stafuoft/page/156/mode/2up?view=theater.

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Anne Elizabeth DE HARCOURT, daughter of John HARCOURT and Margaret BRACY, was born in 1461 in Stanton Harcourt. She died in Apr 1518 in Stanton Harcourt. She was buried in Brewood, Staffordshire, England. Buried with Richard Lane and their children. She and Richard LANE OF HYDE AND BENTLEY had the following children:

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John HARCOURT, son of Thomas HARCOURT and Joan FRANCIS, was born in 1406 in Oxfordshire, England. He had the title 'Sir'. He died in 1496 in Ranton Hall, Ranton, Staffordshire, England. He married Margaret BRACY.

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Margaret BRACY was born in 1429 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. She and John HARCOURT had the following children:

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Thomas HARCOURT, son of Thomas HARCOURT and Joan FRANCIS, was born in 1377 in Leicestershire, England. He had the title 'Sir'. He died on 6 Jul 1420 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. He married Joan FRANCIS.

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Joan FRANCIS was born c. 1381 in Derbyshire, England. She died in 1449 in Oxfordshire, England. She and Thomas HARCOURT had the following children:

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Thomas HARCOURT, son of William DE HARCOURT and Joan DE GREY, was born in 1342 in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England. He had the title 'Sir'. He died on 12 Apr 1417 in Market Bosworth. He married Joan FRANCIS.

Thomas Harcourt, Knight, married before Michaelmas term 1373 Maud Grey, widow of John Botetourt (died 21 Sept. 1369).

"Thomas Harcourt, Knt., of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire and Ellenhall, Staffordshire, Wormleighton, Warwickshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Oxfordshire, 1376, Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1408-9, 2nd son, born about 1342 (aged 28 in 1370). He was heir male, c. 1350, to his older brother, Richard Harcourt, Knt., by which he succeeded to most of the Harcourt family estates. He married before Michaelmas term 1373 (date of lawsuit) Maud Grey, widow of John Botetort (died 21 Sept. 1369). They had three sons, John, Thomas, Knt., and Richard (of Saredon), and four daughters, Anne (wife of Thomas Erdington, Esq., 4th Lord Erdington), Katherine, Isabel, and Maud. In 1365 Thomas de Astley and his wife, Elizabeth, sued him for the manor of Nailstone, Leicestershire. In 1373 Robert Armstrong and Margaret his wife granted to him all the lands, etc. in Cokeslone, Staffordshire, which they had by the gift and enfeeoffment of Sir Ralph de Ferrers. In 1377 Thomas de Astley and his wife, Elizabeth, sued him for the manor of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, the reversion of which was eventually granted to the said Thomas and Elizabeth. He presented to the free chapel of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist (present-day Queen Anne's Hospital), in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, in 1386, in right of his wife, Maud. His wife, Maud, died 29 Jan. 1394, and was buried in an alter tomb at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. Sir Thomas Harcourt died 12 April 1417. He left a will proved 12 Oct. 1417, requesting burial in Ronton Priory, Staffordshire."

Wife: Maud Grey, before 13 June 1374, Rotherfield, Oxfordshire, England

1.) Thomas Harcourt.

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Joan FRANCIS was born c. 1381 in Derbyshire, England. She died in 1449 in Oxfordshire, England. She and Thomas HARCOURT had the following children:

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William DE HARCOURT, son of John DE HARCOURT and Eleanor ZOUCHE, was born in 1300 in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England. He married Joan DE GREY c. 1318. He died on 6 Jun 1349 in Stanton, Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England.

“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):

“WILLIAM DE HARCOURT Knt., of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, Pleasley, Derbyshire, Magna Sheepy and Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, Ellenhall, Staffordshire, Baxterley, Warwickshire, Bingley, Yorkshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 1strriage, born about 1300 (aged 30 in 1330). He married before 1324 JOAN DE GREY, daughter of Richard de Grey, Knt., 2nd Lord Grey of Codnor, by Joan, daughter of Robert Fitz Payn, 1st Lord Fitz Payn [see CODNOR 11 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Richard, Knt, and Thomas, Knt. He presented to the church of Pleasley, Derbyshire in 1331. In 1344 he and his wife, Joan, and Joan's brother, John de Grey, of Codnor, and Alice his wife were granted a papal indult for plenary remission. SIR WILLIAM DE HARCOURT died of the plague 6 June 1349. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) before 1350 (as his 2nd wife) RALPH DE FERRERS, Knt., of Bikon, Warwickshire, Captain of Calais, 1358-61, Admiral of the King's Fleet towards the north, 1370, Warden of the Western Marches of Scotland, Captain of the King's Barges, Trier of Petitions in Parliament, younger son of William de Ferrers, Knt., 1st Lord Ferrers of Groby, by his 1st wife, [?Margaret], daughter of John de Segrave, Knt., 2nd Lord Segrave [see GROBY 9 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1313-18 (aged 72 in 1385-90). He was one of the founders of the Corpus Christ Guild in Leicester, Leicestershire in 1343. He was present at the Siege of Calais in 1346. In 1350 William de Shareshull, Knt, conveyed the manor of Ellenhall, Staffordshire to Ralph and his wife, Joan, for life; with remainder to Joan's granddaughters, Katherine and Elizabeth, daughters of Richard de Harcourt. The same year he was sent by the king with some lords and 40 other knights to Bordeaux for the relief of the town of St. John de Angely, which was then besieged by the French. He returned to England in August 1351. He was present at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. He presented to the church of Pleasley, Derbyshire in 1361. His wife, Joan, died at Ellenhall, Staffordshire 22 July 1369. In 1370 Thomas de Astley and his wife, Elizabeth, granted the manor of Ellenhall, Staffordshire to Ralph de Ferrers, Knt, for life, and to revert after his death to Thomas and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth. In 1370 he served as Admiral of the Fleet which conducted Robert de Knolles, Knt. and his army to France. In 1371 he was appointed Admiral of the King's Fleet towards the north. He was a legatee in the 1375 will of his nephew, Edward le Despenser, K.G., 4th Lord le Despenser. He was appointed a Conservator of the truce with France in 1376. In 1376 he was one of the mainpernors in Parliament of William le Latimer, K.G., 4th Lord Latimer. In 1378 he was a commissioner to receive the Castle of Brest, which was surrendered by the Duke of Brittany. The same year he was ordered to muster the men-at-arms and archers, who were about to serve under John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. In 1378 Thomas de Asdey and his wife Elizabeth granted the manor of Ellenhall, Staffordshire to Ralph de Ferrers, Knt., for life; with remainder to Thomas de Harcourt, Knt., for life; and to revert after his death to Thomas and Elizabeth and the heirs of Elizabeth. In 1380 he was arrested on a charge of conducting traitorous correspondence with the French. He subsequently appeared in Parliament in the custody of the Earl Marshal; he denied the charge and was declared innocent by the Lords in Parliament. He gave evidence in the Scrope-Grosvenor controversy in the period, 1385-90. SIR RALPH DE FERRERS died between 24 Sept. 1391 and 7 July 1392.

Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 4 (1812): 428-453 (sub Harcourt Earl Harcourt). Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 4(2) (1811): *519—*520. Baker Hist & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 103-104, 658-659. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (6): 99-100 (will of Edward, Lord Despenser). Nicolas Controversy between Scrape & Grosvenor 2 (1832): 361-366 (biog. of Sir Ralph Ferrers). Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 227-230 (sub Grey of Codnor). Champollion-Figeac Lettres de Rois, Reines et autres Personnages 2 (1847): 117-118 (letter of King Edward III of England to Ralph de Ferrers, Captain of Calais). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckiagham 4 (1847): 590. Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 474. Ronton Chartulary (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4(1)) (1883): 271-272 (Harcourt ped.: "De dicto Johanne [Harcourt] descendit jus et hereditas cuidam Willielmo de Harecurt tanquam filio et heredi, qui desponsavit Johannam, filiam Domini Ricardi de Grey de Codenore."). Boyd & Wrottesley Final Concords (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 11) (1890): 164, 178, 193. Year Books of Edward III: Year XVI 7 (Rolls Ser. 31b) (1896): 209-213. Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 110. Wrottesley Crecy & Calais (1898): 200. Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 2 (1901): lvii, 70, 154. List of Inqs. Ad Quad Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 228, 254. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 92-93, 101, 132, 201, 342. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 221-222; 13 (1954): 60. C.F.R. 4 (1913): 180. Wedgwood Harcourt of Ellenhall (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 3rd Ser. 1914) (1914): 196-197. Unwin Finance & Trade under Edward III (1918): 349-350. Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): 55 (Harcourt ped.). C.P. 5 (1926): 352 footnote a (sub Ferrers). Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 79. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 3 (Dugdale Soc. 18) (1943): 82. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 25; 6 (1951): 32. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 271: 2. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1(1978): 31 (seal of William de Harecourt dated 1339— A shield of arms, couche: two bars [HARCOURT], the field hatched; helm above with stylized mantling on both sides and crest: a peacock. A scroll on right. No legend but a band of running ornament). VCH Oxford 12 (1990): 274-275. Schumer Oxfordshire Forests 1246-1609 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 64) (2004): 129, 132, 134. National Archives, SC 8/245/12202 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).

Children of William de Harcourt, Knt., by Joan de Grey:

i. RICHARD DE HARCOURT, Knt., of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, son and heir, born about 1328 (aged 21 in 1349). He married JOAN DE SHARESHULL (or SHARESHILL), daughter of William de Shareshull, Knt., Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Chief Baf the Exchequer. They had two daughters, Katherine and Elizabeth. He was granted letters of protections about June 1346, he then about to set out for France in the retinue of Maurice de Berkeley. He subsequently fought at the Battle of Crecy 26 August 1346. SIR RICHARD DE HARCOURT died before 1350, probably of the plague. Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Staffordshire. Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 4(2) (1811): *519—*520. Ronton Chartulary (Colls. Hist Staffs. 4(1)) (1883): 271-272 (Harcourt ped.: "De dicto Willielmo [de Harcourt] descendit jus et hereditas cuidam Ricardo de Harecourt tanquam filio et heredi, qui desponsavit Johannam, filiam Domini Willielmi de Shareshull."). Boyd & Wrottesley Final Concords (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 11) (1890): 160-169. Wrottesley Crecy & Calais (1898): 35, 37, 89. Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 175. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 92-93, 101, 132, 201, 342. Wedgwood Revs. of Rec. Office Pubs. (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 3rd Ser. 1913) (1913): 342. Wedgwood Harcourt of Ellenhall (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 3.1 Ser. 1914) (1914): 196 ("Sir Richard's wife is called Jane, daughter of Sir William de Shareshull, the chief justice. But Sir William had a son; two generations of Sir Williams succeeded him at Patshull; and how Jane became, in her issue, heiress to Patshull in 1439 I do not understand"). Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): 55 (Harcourt ped.). Putnam Place in Legal Hist. of Sir William Shareshull (1950). Booth Account of Master John de Burnham the Younger (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 125) (1991): 171-172 (biog. of William de Shareshull). Sainty Judges of England (Selden Soc. Supp. Ser. 10) (1993): 7, 24, 25, 63, 92 (re. William Shareshull).

Child of Richard de Harcourt, by Joan de Shareshull:

a. ELIZABETH DE HARCOURT, married THOMAS DE ASTLEY, Knt., of Hillmorton, Warwickshire [see ASTLEY 12].

ii. THOMAS HARCOURT, Knt. [see next].³”

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Joan DE GREY was born in 1302 in Codnor, Derbyshire, England. She died on 22 Jul 1369 in Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England. She and William DE HARCOURT had the following children:

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John DE HARCOURT was born on 1 Nov 1274 in Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, England. He had the title 'Sir'. He died on 2 May 1330 in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England. He married Eleanor ZOUCHE.

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Eleanor ZOUCHE, daughter of Eudes LA ZOUCHE and Millicent DE CANTILUPE, was born c. 1278 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England. She died on 11 Oct 1350 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England.

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Zouche-154

Biography

Eleanor la Zouche was born circa 1278 at Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England, the daughter of Sir Eudes la Zouche and Milicent de Cantelowe.[1][2][3]

She married Sir John de Harcourt, son of Sir Richard de Harcourt and Margaret Beke, before 1300. They had 1 son:[1][2][4][5]

Sir William

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 342.

↑ 2.0 2.1 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 205-206.

↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 83-84.

↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 47-48.

↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 86.

John DE HARCOURT and Eleanor ZOUCHE had the following children:

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Eudes LA ZOUCHE, son of Alan LA ZOUCHE II II and Elena DE QUINCY, was born in 1232 in Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, England. He married Millicent DE CANTILUPE bef 13 Dec 1273. He died bef 25 Jun 1279 in Haringworth, Northamptonshire, England.

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Millicent DE CANTILUPE was born c. 1246 in of Calne, Wiltshire, Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire, England. She died on 7 Jan 1299 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England.

Milicent de Cantelowe was born circa 1245 at of Calne, Wiltshire, Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire, England.

She married twice. First, before 1254, she married John de Montault, son of Sir Roger de Montalt, Seneschal & Justice of Chester and Cecilia d' Aubeney. No known issue.

Before December 13, 1273, she next married Sir Eudes la Zouche (1279-1299), son of Roger le Zouche, 2nd Lord Zouche, Sheriff of Devonshire and Margaret Biset. and Millicent had five children:

1.) Elizabeth la Zouche d. bt 1297-9 Feb 1309, wife of Sir Nicholas Poyntz

2.) Lucy la Zouche

3.) Eve la Zoucheb. c 1271, d. 5 Dec 1314

4.) Sir William la Zouche, 1st Lord Zouche of Harringworth b. 18 Dec 1276 or 21 Dec 1276, d. 11 Mar 1352 or 12 Mar 1352

5.) Eleanor la Zouche b. c 1278, wife of Sir John de Harcourt.

Milicent de Cantelowe died circa January 7, 1299.

Eudes LA ZOUCHE and Millicent DE CANTILUPE had the following children:

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Alan LA ZOUCHE II II was born in 1205 in Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, England. He died on 10 Aug 1270 in North Molton, Devon, England. He married Elena DE QUINCY.

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Elena DE QUINCY, daughter of Roger DE QUINCY 2nd Earl of Winchester 2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen DE GALLOWAY Countess of Winchester Countess of Winchester, was born c. 1217 in England. She died on 20 Aug 1296 in East Leicester, Leicestershire, England. She and Alan LA ZOUCHE II had the following children:

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Roger DE QUINCY 2nd Earl of Winchester 2nd Earl of Winchester, son of Saer DE QUINCY 1st Earl of Winchester 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret DE BEAUMONT, was born in 1195 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. He died on 5 Apr 1264 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. He was buried in Apr 1264 in Saint Peter Churchyard, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. He married Helen DE GALLOWAY Countess of Winchester. He married Helen DE GALLOWAY.

Helen DE GALLOWAY, daughter of Alan FITZROLAND Lord of Galloway Lord of Galloway (1186-1234) and Unknown DE LACY (c. 1180-bef1209), was born in Aug 1207 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland. She died on 21 Nov 1245 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She was buried on 30 Nov 1245 in Aberdeenshire. She and Roger DE QUINCY 2nd Earl of Winchester had the following children:

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Helen DE GALLOWAY Countess of Winchester Countess of Winchester was born in Aug 1207 in Carrick. She died on 21 Nov 1245 in Aberdeenshire. She was buried in Brackley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She and Roger DE QUINCY 2nd Earl of Winchester had the following children:

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Saer DE QUINCY 1st Earl of Winchester 1st Earl of Winchester, son of Robert DE QUINCY JUSTICIAR OF LOTHIAN and Judith Orabilis FITZNESS OF LEUCHARS, was born in 1090 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. He married c. 1136. He died in 1158 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Saher de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester (c. 1155-3 November 1219) (or Saieur di Quinci) was one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against John, King of England, and a major figure in both the kingdoms of Scotland and England in the decades around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Scottish Upbringing

Saher de Quincy's immediate background was in the Scottish kingdom: his father, Robert de Quincy, was a knight in the service of King William the Lion, and his mother, Orabilis de Mar, was the heiress of the lordship of Leuchars in Fife (see below).

His own rise to prominence in England came through his marriage to Margaret, the younger sister of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester: but it is probably no coincidence that her other brother was the de Quincy's powerful Fife neighbour, Roger de Beaumont, Bishop of St Andrews. Earl Robert died in 1204, and left Margaret as co-heiress to the vast earldom along with her elder sister. The estate was split in half, and after the final division was ratified in 1207, de Quincy was made Earl of Winchester.

Earl of Winchester

Following his marriage, Winchester became a prominent military and diplomatic figure in England. There is no evidence of any close alliance with King John, however, and his rise to importance was probably due to his newly acquired magnate status and the family connections that underpinned it.

One man with whom he does seem to have developed a close personal relationship is his cousin, Robert Fitzwalter (d. 1235). In 1203, they served as co-commanders of the garrison at the major fortress of Vaudreuil in Normandy. They surrendered the castle without a fight to Philip II of France, fatally weakening the English position in northern France. Although popular opinion seems to have blamed them for the capitulation, a royal writ is extant stating that the castle was surrendered at King John's command, and both Winchester and Fitzwalter endured personal humiliation and heavy ransoms at the hands of the French.

In Scotland, he was perhaps more successful. In 1211 to 1212, the Earl of Winchester commanded an imposing retinue of a hundred knights and a hundred serjeants in William the Lion's campaign against the Mac William rebels, a force which some historians have suggested may have been the mercenary force from Brabant lent to the campaign by John.

Magna Carta

In 1215, when the baronial rebellion broke out, Robert Fitzwalter became the military commander, and the Earl of Winchester joined him, acting as one of the chief authors of Magna Carta and negotiators with John; both cousins were among the 25 guarantors of the Magna Carta. De Quincy fought against John in the troubles that followed the sealing of the Charter, and, again with Fitzwalter, travelled to France to invite Prince Louis of France to take the English throne. He and Fitzwalter were subsequently among the most committed and prominent supporters of Louis's candidature for the kingship, against both John and the infant Henry III.

The Fifth Crusade

When military defeat cleared the way for Henry III to take the throne, de Quincy went on crusade, perhaps in fulfilment of an earlier vow. In 1219 he left to join the Fifth Crusade, then besieging Damietta. While in the east, he fell sick and died. He was buried in Acre, the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, rather than in Egypt, and his heart was brought back and interred at Garendon Abbey near Loughborough, a house endowed by his wife's family.

Family

The family of de Quincy had arrived in England after the Norman Conquest, and took their name from Cuinchy in the Arrondissement of Béthune; the personal name "Saher" was used by them over several generations. Both names are variously spelt in primary sources and older modern works, the first name being sometimes rendered Saher or Seer, and the surname as Quency or Quenci.

The first recorded Saher de Quincy (known to historians as "Saer I") was lord of the manor of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire in the earlier twelfth century, and second husband of Matilda of St Liz, stepdaughter of King David I of Scotland by Maud of Northumbria. This marriage produced two sons, Saer II and Robert de Quincy. It was Robert, the younger son, who was the father of the Saer de Quincy who eventually became Earl of Winchester. By her first husband Robert Fitz Richard, Matilda was also the paternal grandmother of Earl Saer's close ally, Robert Fitzwalter.

Robert de Quincy seems to have inherited no English lands from his father, and pursued a knightly career in Scotland, where he is recorded from around 1160 as a close companion of his cousin, King William the Lion. By 1170 he had married Orabilis, heiress of the Scottish lordship of Leuchars and, through her, he became lord of an extensive complex of estates north of the border which included lands in Fife, Strathearn and Lothian.

Saher de Quincy, the son of Robert de Quincy and Orabilis of Leuchars, was raised largely in Scotland. His absence from English records for the first decades of his life has led some modern historians and genealogists to confuse him with his uncle, Saer II, who took part in the rebellion of Henry the Young King in 1173, when the future Earl of Winchester can have been no more than a toddler. Saer II's line ended without direct heirs, and his nephew and namesake would eventually inherit his estate, uniting his primary Scottish holdings with the family's Northamptonshire patrimony, and possibly some lands in France.

Issue

By his wife Margaret de Beaumont, Earl Saher had three sons and three daughters:

1.) Lora who married Sir William de Valognes, Chamberlain of Scotland.

2.) Arabella who married Sir Richard Harcourt.

3.) Robert (d. 1217), before 1206 he married Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln, sister and co-heiress of Randolph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester.

4.) Roger, who succeeded his father as earl of Winchester (though he did not take formal possession of the earldom until after his mother's death).

5.) Robert de Quincy (second son of that name; d. 1257) who married Elen, daughter of the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.

6.) Hawise, who married Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford. Saer was buried aft 3 Nov 1219 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. He married Margaret DE BEAUMONT. He married Margaret DE BEAUMONT.

Margaret DE BEAUMONT and Saer DE QUINCY 1st Earl of Winchester had the following children:

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Margaret DE BEAUMONT, daughter of Robert DE BEAUMONT 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl of Leicester and Petronella DE GRANDMESNIL Countess of Leicester Countess of Leicester, was born on 2 Aug 1154 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. She died on 12 Jan 1235 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. She was buried in 1235 in Garendon, Leicestershire, England.

Saer DE QUINCY 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret DE BEAUMONT had the following children:

Saer DE QUINCY 1st Earl of Winchester and Margaret DE BEAUMONT had the following children:

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Robert DE QUINCY JUSTICIAR OF LOTHIAN was born in 1138 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England. He had the title 'Sir'. He died on 29 Sep 1197 in Buckley Manor, Northamptonshire, England. He married Judith Orabilis FITZNESS OF LEUCHARS.

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Judith Orabilis FITZNESS OF LEUCHARS was born c. 1135 in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland. She married c. 1152 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. She died bef Jun 1203 in Long Buckby.

Robert DE QUINCY JUSTICIAR OF LOTHIAN and Judith Orabilis FITZNESS OF LEUCHARS had the following children:

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Robert DE BEAUMONT 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl of Leicester, son of Robert DE BEAUMONT 2nd Earl of Leicester 2nd Earl of Leicester and Amice DE GAEL, was born in 1121 in Beaumont, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France. He married Petronella DE GRANDMESNIL Countess of Leicester in 1155 in Leicester Abbey, Leicestershire, England. He died on 31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo Provence, West, Albania.

Robert was the only son of Robert, second earl of Leicester, and Amice (daughter of Ralph de Gael). He was born after a number of elder sisters. He inherited from his father large estates in England and Normandy.

After 1154 he seems to have spent much of his time in charge of the Leicester lands in Normandy. By 1159 he had received from the king the marriage of Petronilla, daughter & heir of William de Grandmesnil.

The seal he used before his father's death demonstrates that he had taken the surname de Breteuil. This has some significance in that it reveals him stressing his descent from William fitz Osbern.

Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1168–1190) was an English nobleman, one of the principal followers of Henry the Young King in the Revolt of 1173–1174 against his father Henry II. He is also called Robert Blanchemains (meaning "White Hands" in French) and Robert Harcourt. Lord High Steward 1168–1190 [1].

When the revolt of the younger Henry broke out in April 1173, Robert went to his castle at Breteuil in Normandy. The rebels' aim was to take control of the duchy, but Henry II himself led an army to besiege the castle; Robert fled, and the Breteuil was taken on September 25 or 26.

Robert apparently went to Flanders, where he raised a large force of mercenaries, and landed at Walton, Suffolk, on 29 September 1173. He joined forces with Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, and the two marched west, aiming to cut England in two across the Midlands and to relieve the king's siege of Robert's castle at Leicester. However, they were intercepted by the king's supporters and defeated in battle at Fornham, near Bury St Edmunds, on 17 October. Robert, along with his wife and many others, was taken prisoner, according to legend, by Sir William Chamberlayne, Lord of North Riston and Petsoe. Henry II took away the earl's lands and titles as well.

He remained in captivity until January 1177, well after most of the other prisoners had been released. The king was in a strong position and could afford to be merciful; not long after his release Robert's lands and titles were restored, but not his castles. All but two of his castles had been destroyed, and those two (Montsorrel in Leicestershire and Pacy in Normandy) remained in the king's hands.

Robert had little influence in the remaining years of Henry II's reign, but was restored to favour by Richard I. He carried one of the swords of state at Richard's coronation in 1189.

Robert took part in the third crusade and died at Durazzo (others say Dyrrachium), in 1190, probably at the end of August. He was buried in Leicester Abbey.

Children

He had three sons,

- William de Breteuil (who predeceased him in 1189),

- Robert, who succeeded him as earl,

- Roger, who was elected bishop of St Andrews in 1189.

He also had several daughters, among them:

- Amice married first Simon de Montfort the younger, count of Évreux, and second William des Barres the elder;

- Margaret married Saer de Quincy (d. 1219);

- Hawise entered the priory of Nuneaton as a nun,

- Petronilla, is mentioned in the obituary of Lyre Abbey.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont,_3rd_Earl_of_Leicester

Royal Database, Camelot International, Good (Burke's old records) http://www.camelotintl.com/royal/list/index.html

Ancestral File Number: 8HRJ-4K 91VK-GS

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, Rootsweb.com

Nichol's Lcstrs, vol 1 pt 1 p. 98 (GS #Q942.54 H2nic)

Wurts' Magna Charta vol 1-2 p. 185 (GS #942 D22w)

Clutterbuck's Hrtfrd, vol 3 p. 287 (GS #Q942.58 H2c)

Complete Peerage vol 7 p. 520 (GS #942 D24c)

Dict of Nat'l Biog vol 4 p. 67, 68, 113 (GS # Ref 920.042 D561n)

Plantagenet Ancestry p. 100 (GS #Q940 D2t)

The Battle Abbey Roll vol 3 p. 47, vol 2 p. 306-326, vol 1 p. 148

Dugdale's Baronage of England, vol 1 p. 868 (GS #Q942 D22dw)

Baker's Nrthmp, vol 1 p. 563, 241 (GS #Q942.55 H2ba)

Adjusted for Leland J. Hendrix (21 gg son to #2) 931 S. 100 E., Orem, Utah 84057, 18 Apr 1968

Proving Your Pedigree (GS #929.1 B439p)

Americans of Royal Descent (GS #973 D2ba)

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/13078823/person/607459379/facts

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/6835128/person/-970510580/facts

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/16746257/family

Wikitree : https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beaumont-82

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Petronella DE GRANDMESNIL Countess of Leicester Countess of Leicester was born in 1134 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. She died on 1 Apr 1212 in Leicester. She and Robert DE BEAUMONT 3rd Earl of Leicester had the following children:

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Robert DE BEAUMONT 2nd Earl of Leicester 2nd Earl of Leicester, son of Robert DE BEAUMONT Conte de Meulan Conte de Meulan and Elizabeth DE VERMANDOIS Countess of Leicester Countess of Leicester, was born on 24 Nov 1104 in Groby, Leicestershire, England. He married Amice DE GAEL on 25 Nov 1120 in Brittany, France. He died on 5 Apr 1168 in St Marys De Pre, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He was buried on 15 Apr 1168 in Leicester Abbey, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.

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Amice DE GAEL was born in 1108 in Norfolk, England. She was christened in Monford de Gael, Brittany, France. She died on 31 Aug 1168 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. She was buried in 1168 in Leicestershire, England. She and Robert DE BEAUMONT 2nd Earl of Leicester had the following children:

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Robert DE BEAUMONT Conte de Meulan Conte de Meulan was born on 6 Dec 1046 in Pont-Audemer, Eure, Upper Normandy, France. He married Elizabeth DE VERMANDOIS Countess of Leicester in 1096 in Aquitaine, France. He died on 5 Jun 1118 in Abbey de Preaux, Pont Audemer, Normandy, France. He was buried in 1118 in Abbey Of Saint Peter, Les Preaux, Normandy, France.

Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (c. 1040/1050 – 5 June 1118), also known as Robert of Meulan, Count of Meulan, was a powerful Norman nobleman, one of the companions of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England, and was revered as one of the wisest men of his age. Chroniclers spoke highly of his eloquence, his learning, and three kings of England valued his counsel. He was granted considerable lands in the Midlands by William and Henry I and made the Earl of Leicester.

Robert was born between 1040–1050, the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont (1015–1094) by his wife Adeline of Meulan (died 1081), a daughter of Waleran III, Count de Meulan, and was an older brother of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick (c. 1050–1119).

Robert de Beaumont was one of only a small number of men known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, as well as being a cousin of William, and was leader of the infantry on the right wing of the Norman army, as evidenced in the following near contemporary account by William of Poitiers:

"A certain Norman, Robert, son of Roger of Beaumont, being nephew and heir to Henry, Count of Meulan, through Henry's sister Adeline, found himself that day in battle for the first time. He was as yet but a young man and he performed feats of valour worthy of perpetual remembrance. At the head of a troop which he commanded on the right wing he attacked with the utmost bravery and success".

His service earned him the grant of more than 91 English manors confiscated from the defeated English, as listed in the Domesday Book of 1086.

When his mother died in 1081, Robert inherited the title of Count of Meulan in Normandy, and the title Viscount Ivry and Lord of Norton. He paid homage to King Philip I of France for these estates and sat as a French Peer in the Parliament held at Poissy.

He and his brother Henry were members of the Royal hunting party in the New Forest in Hampshire when King William II Rufus (1087–1100) was shot dead accidentally by an arrow on 2 August 1100. He pledged allegiance to William II's brother, King Henry I (1100–1135), who created him Earl of Leicester in 1107.

He was the last surviving Norman nobleman to have fought in the Battle of Hastings.

Robert de Beaumont was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Préaux in Normandy.

In 1096, he married Elizabeth (or Isabel) de Vermandois, daughter of Hugh Magnus (1053–1101) and Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois (1050–1120).

In 1096 Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1118) and reputed to be the "wisest man in his time between London and Jerusalem" insisted, in defiance of the laws of the Church, on marrying the very young Elizabeth, he being over fifty at the time. In early 1096 Bishop Ivo, on hearing of the proposed marriage, wrote a letter forbidding the marriage and preventing its celebration on the grounds of consanguinuity, i.e. that the two were related within prohibited degrees.

After his death Elizabeth remarried in 1118 to William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey.

He had the following progeny:

1. Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Worcester (b. 1104), eldest twin and heir.

2. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester & Earl of Hereford (b. 1104), twin

3. Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (born c. 1106)

4. Emma de Beaumont (born 1102)

5. Adeline de Beaumont, married twice:

- Hugh de Montfort-sur-Risle;

- Richard de Granville of Bideford (died 1147)

6. Aubree de Beaumont, married Hugh II of Châteauneuf-Thimerais.

7. Agnes de Beaumont, a nun

8. Maud de Beaumont, married William Lovel (born c. 1102)

9. Isabel de Beaumont, a mistress of King Henry I. Married twice:

- Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke;

- Hervé de Montmorency, Constable of Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Beaumont%2C_1st_Earl_of_Leicester

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Elizabeth DE VERMANDOIS Countess of Leicester Countess of Leicester, daughter of Hugues DE VERMANDOIS Ier Ier and Adélaïdec DE VERMANDOIS Comtesse de Vermandois et Valois Comtesse de Vermandois et Valois, was born on 13 Feb 1085 in Valois, Oise, Picardie, France. She died on 13 Feb 1131 in Prieuré Saint-Nicaise de Meulan, Diocèse de Chartres, Seine-et-Oise, France. She was buried on 17 Feb 1131 in Priory of Lewes, Lewes, Sussex, England. She and Robert DE BEAUMONT Conte de Meulan had the following children:

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Hugues DE VERMANDOIS Ier Ier, son of Henri CAPET Ier roi des Francs Ier roi des Francs and Anne DE KIEV Reine des Francs Reine des Francs, was born in 1057. He was a Crusader, Commander of the Crusade in Byzantine Empire. He married Adélaïdec DE VERMANDOIS Comtesse de Vermandois et Valois in 1077. He died "18 octobre 1101" in Tarsus, Mersin, Turquie.

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Adélaïdec DE VERMANDOIS Comtesse de Vermandois et Valois Comtesse de Vermandois et Valois was born on 23 Sep 1050 in Lot-Et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France. She died on 28 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France. She was buried in 1120 in Cathedrale Saint-Etienne-des-Meaux, Meaux-Sud, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. She and Hugues DE VERMANDOIS Ier had the following children:

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Henri CAPET Ier roi des Francs Ier roi des Francs, son of Robert II CAPET King of France King of France and Constance D'ARLES Reine des Francs Reine des Francs, was born "4 mai 1008" in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. He was christened "23 mai 1008" in Reims, Champagne, France. He died "4 août 1060" in Vitry-aux-Loges, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France. He was buried "10 août 1060" in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. He married Anne DE KIEV Reine des Francs.

King Henry I of France

Henry I of France, King of France French: Henri I de France, roi de France, Latin: Henricus I Franciae, rex Franciae, Spanish: Dn. Enrique I Capeto, King of France Also Known As: "Henri Capet", "Roi de France", "Prince of France"

Birthdate: May 04, 1008 Birthplace: Muelan, Paris, Orleannais, West Francia (now Ile-de-France, France)

Death: August 04, 1060 (52) Palais de Vitry-aux-Loges, Vitry-aux-Loges, Centre, France Place of Burial: Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France Immediate Family:

Son of Robert II Capet, "the Pious" king of the Franks and Constance d'Arles, queen consort of the Franks

Husband of Matilda of Frisia, queen consort of the Franks and Anna of Kiev, Queen Consort of the Franks

Fiancé of Mathilde de Germanie

Father of

N.N.;

Emma Capet de France;

Robert Capet de France;

Hugues I 'Magnus', Comte de Vermandois and

Philip I, king of France

Brother of Emergarde de Auvergne; Hedwige de France, comtesse d'Auxerre; Hugues, roi associé de France; Adela of France, countess of Flanders; Constance de France, heritiere de Dammartin; Robert I le Vieux, duc de Bourgogne and Eudes de France « less Half brother of .... Capet Occupation: King of France (1031-1060), Roi de France (1031-1060), King of France, King of the Franks, King f France, Kung av Frankrike 1031 - 1060, King, Roi des Francs, duc de Bourgogne, Koning van Frankrijk (1031-1060)

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Anne DE KIEV Reine des Francs Reine des Francs was born in 1032 in Ukraine. She died on 5 Sep 1075 in Villiers Abbey, La Ferté-Alais, Essonne, France. She was buried in 1075 in La Ferte-Alais, Departement de l'Essonne, Île-de-France, France. She and Henri CAPET Ier roi des Francs had the following children:

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Robert II CAPET King of France King of France, son of Hugues CAPET roi des Francs roi des Francs and Adélaïde D'AQUITAINE reine des Francs reine des Francs, was born "27 mars 0972" in Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France. He married Constance D'ARLES Reine des Francs on 18 Sep 0998. He died "20 juillet 1031" in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France.

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Constance D'ARLES Reine des Francs Reine des Francs was born "27 mars 0972" in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. She died "31 juillet 1032" in Meulan-en-Yvelines, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France. She and Robert II CAPET King of France had the following children:

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Hugues CAPET roi des Francs roi des Francs, son of Hugues LE GRAND duc des Francs duc des Francs and Hadwig VON SACHSEN, was born "3 juillet 0941" in Île-de-France, France. He married Adélaïde D'AQUITAINE reine des Francs on 11 Aug 0968 in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. He died "29 octobre 0996" in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France. He was buried "24 octobre 0996" in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

Capet is regarded as the founder of the Capetian dynasty. The direct Capetians, or the House of Capet, ruled France from 987 to 1328; thereafter, the Kingdom was ruled by collateral branches of the dynasty. All French kings through Louis Philippe, and all royal pretenders since then, have belonged to the dynasty.

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Marriage and issue per wikipedia

Hugh Capet married Adelaide, daughter of William Towhead, Count of Poitou. Their children are as follows:

1. Gisela, or Gisele, who married Hugh I, Count of Ponthieu

2. Hedwig, or Hathui, who married Reginar IV, Count of Hainaut

3. Robert II, who became king after the death of his father

A number of other daughters are less reliably attested.

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Adélaïde D'AQUITAINE reine des Francs reine des Francs, daughter of Guillaume III D'AQUITAINE Comte de Poitou, duc d'Aquitaine Comte de Poitou, duc d'Aquitaine and Adèle DE NORMANDIE Duchesse d'Aquitaine Duchesse d'Aquitaine, was born in 0945 in Poitiers, Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. She was christened in 0952 in Aquitaine, France. She died on 30 Oct 1004 in Seine-Saint-Denis. She was buried "AFT 30 octobre 1004" in Saint-Denis. She and Hugues CAPET roi des Francs had the following children:

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Hugues LE GRAND duc des Francs duc des Francs, son of Robert CAPET Ier roi des Francs Ier roi des Francs and Béatrice DE VERMANDOIS, was born "28 Augt 0898" in Paris, Île-de-France, France. He married Hadwig VON SACHSEN on 14 Sep 0937 in Oder, Steinberg, Schwandorf, Bavaria, Germany. He died on 16 Jun 0956 in Dourdan, Essonne, Île-de-France, France. He was buried on 23 Jun 0956 in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France.

Hugh the Great (c. 898 – 16 June 956) was the Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris.

He was the son of King Robert I of France and Béatrice of Vermandois, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Vermandois. He was born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. His eldest son was Hugh Capet who became King of France in 987. His family is known as the Robertians.

In 922 the barons of western Francia, after revolting against the Carolingian king Charles the Simple (who fled his kingdom under their onslaught), elected Robert I, Hugh's father, as king of Western Francia. At the death of Robert I, in battle at Soissons in 923, Hugh refused the crown and it went to his brother-in-law, Rudolph of France. Charles sought help in regaining his crown from his cousin Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, who instead of helping the king imprisoned him. Herbert then used his prisoner as an advantage in pressing his own ambitions, using the threat of releasing the king up until Charles' death in 929. From then on Herbert II of Vermandois struggled with King Rudolph and his vassal Hugh the Great. Finally Rudolph and Herbert II came to an agreement in 935.

At the death of Rudolph in 936, Hugh was in possession of nearly all of the region between the Loire and the Seine, corresponding to the ancient Neustria, with the exceptions of Anjou and of the territory ceded to the Normans in 911. He took a very active part in bringing Louis IV (d'Outremer) from the Kingdom of England in 936. In 937 Hugh married Hedwige of Saxony, a daughter of Henry the Fowler of Germany and Matilda, and soon quarrelled with Louis.

In 938 King Louis IV began attacking fortresses and lands formerly held by members of his family, some held by Herbert II of Vermandois. In 939 king Louis attacked Hugh the Great and William I, Duke of Normandy, after which a truce was concluded, lasting until June. That same year Hugh, along with Herbert II of Vermandois, Arnulf I, Count of Flanders and Duke William Longsword paid homage to the Emperor Otto the Great, and supported him in his struggle against Louis.

When Louis fell into the hands of the Normans in 945, he was handed over to Hugh in exchange for their young duke Richard. Hugh released Louis IV in 946 on condition that he should surrender the fortress of Laon. In 948 at a church council at Ingelheim the bishops, all but two being from Germany, condemned and excommunicated Hugh in absentia, and returned Archbishop Artauld to his See at Reims. Hugh's response was to attack Soissons and Reims while the excommunication was repeated by a council at Trier. In 953 Hugh finally relented and made peace with Louis IV, the church and his brother-in-law Otto the Great.

On the death of Louis IV, Hugh was one of the first to recognize Lothair as his successor, and, at the intervention of Queen Gerberga, was instrumental in having him crowned. In recognition of this service Hugh was invested by the new king with the duchies of Burgundy and Aquitaine. In the same year, however, Giselbert, duke of Burgundy, acknowledged himself his vassal and betrothed his daughter to Hugh's son Otto-Henry. At Giselbert's death (8 April 956) Hugh became effective master of the duchy, but on 16 June Hugh died in Dourdan.

Hugues le Grand meurt le « XVI des calendes de juillet 956 », c'est-à-dire le 16 juin 956, au château de Dourdan. Sa sépulture se trouve dans la basilique Saint-Denis, nécropole des rois de France.

Hugh married first, in 922, Judith, daughter of Roger, Count of Maine, and his wife Rothilde, a daughter of Emperor Charles the Bald. She died childless in 925.

Hugh's second wife was Eadhild, daughter of Edward the Elder, king of the Anglo-Saxons, and sister of King Æthelstan. They married in 926 and she died in 938, childless.

Hugh's third wife was Hedwig of Saxony, daughter of Henry the Fowler and Matilda. Children:

1 Beatrice married Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine.

2 Hugh Capet (c. 939–997)

3 Emma (c. 943 – aft. 968).

5 Otto, Duke of Burgundy, a minor in 956.

6 Odo-Henry (Henry I, Duke of Burgundy) (946–1002)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_the_Great

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugues_le_Grand_(Robertien)

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Hadwig VON SACHSEN was born on 4 Dec 0910 in Provinz Sachsen, Prusse, Allemagne. She died on 14 Mar 0965 in La Chapelle, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France.

According to the medieval chronicler Widukind of Corvey, Hedwig was a younger daughter of the Saxon duke Henry the Fowler (c.?876-936), elected King of East Francia from 919, and his second wife Matilda of Ringelheim (c.?895-968). Her siblings were Otto I, who succeeded his father as king and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962; Duke Henry I of Bavaria; Gerberga of Saxony, who married King Louis IV of France in 939; and Archbishop Bruno of Cologne.

After her brother Otto I came to power in 936, an alliance and marriage was arranged with the West Frankish duke Hugh the Great, who sought support in his struggles with King Louis IV. Hedwig was Hugh's third wife. They married probably in May 937.

When Hedwig's husband died in 956, her son Hugh Capet was still underage. Although Hugh inherited his father's estates, he did not rule independently from the beginning. Along with her brother, Archbishop Bruno, Hedwig acted as Hugh's regent and administrator of the Robertian estates until he came of age. Bruno also held guardianship over his nephew King Lothair of France, son of his sister Gerberga, and temporarily raised to one of the most powerful nobles in West Francia. Hedwig backed her brother in his conflict with Count Reginar III of Hainaut and arbitrated in the rivalry between her son Hugh Capet and King Lothair.

Hedwig is last mentioned in 958 by the West Frankish chronicler Flodoard of Reims and may have died soon after; a 965 entry by Sigebert of Gembloux seems doubtful.

Hugues LE GRAND duc des Francs and Hadwig VON SACHSEN had the following children:

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Guillaume III D'AQUITAINE Comte de Poitou, duc d'Aquitaine Comte de Poitou, duc d'Aquitaine was born on 26 Dec 0910 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. He died on 3 Apr 0963 in Saint-Maixent, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. He married Adèle DE NORMANDIE Duchesse d'Aquitaine.

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Adèle DE NORMANDIE Duchesse d'Aquitaine Duchesse d'Aquitaine, daughter of Rollo DE NORMANDIE Comte de Rouen Comte de Rouen and Poppa DE BAYEUX, was born on 14 Oct 0920 in Normandie, France. She was christened in 0920 in Rouen, Normandy, France. She died on 14 Oct 0962 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. She was buried aft 14 Oct 0962 in Saint-Maixent, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

Adèla de Normandie Duchesse d'Aquitaine*...Gerloc (or Geirlaug), baptised in Rouen as Adela (or Adèle) in 912, was the daughter of Rollo, first duke of Normandy, and his wife, Poppa of Bayeux. She was the

sister of Duke William Longsword. In 935, she

married William Towhead, the future count of Poitou and duke of Aquitaine. They had two children together before she

died on 14 October 962: William IV of Aquitaine...Adelaide of Aquitaine, wife of Hugh Capet.

LESS

From Findagrave;

Gerloc (or Geirlaug), Adela (or Adèle) of Aquitaine

912–962

BIRTH 912

DEATH 14 OCT 962

Gerloc

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gerloc

Died 14 October 962

Noble family House of Normandy

Spouse(s) William Towhead

Father Rollo of Normandy

Mother Poppa of Bayeux

Gerloc (or Geirlaug), baptised in Rouen as Adela (or Adèle) in 912, was the daughter of Rollo, first duke of Normandy, and his wife, Poppa.[1] She was the sister of Duke William Longsword.

Guillaume III D'AQUITAINE Comte de Poitou, duc d'Aquitaine and Adèle DE NORMANDIE Duchesse d'Aquitaine had the following children:

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Robert CAPET Ier roi des Francs Ier roi des Francs was born c. 0860. He died "15 juin 0923" in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France. He was buried "15 juin 0923" in Saint-Denis-lès-Sens, Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. He married Béatrice DE VERMANDOIS.

Robert I of France was born in 866 as the posthumous son of Robert the Strong, count of Anjou, and the brother of Odo, who was elected king of West Francia in 888.[1] In time West Francia evolved into the Kingdom of France;[2] and under Odo, the royal capital was fixed in Paris. Robert and Odo came from the Robertian dynasty out of which the Capetian dynasty grew.[3]

In 885 Robert participated in the defence of Paris during the Viking siege of Paris.[4] He was appointed by Odo as the ruler of several counties, including the county of Paris, and abbot in commendam of many abbeys. Robert also secured the office of Dux Francorum, a military dignity of high importance.

He did not claim the crown of West Francia when his brother died in 898; instead recognizing the supremacy of the Carolingian king, Charles the Simple. Charles then confirmed Robert in his offices and possessions, after which he continued to defend northern Francia from the attacks of Vikings. Robert defeated a large band of Vikings in the Loire Valley in 921, after which the defeated invaders converted to Christianity and settled near Nantes.[5]

The peace between King Charles the Simple and his powerful vassal was not seriously disturbed until about 921 when Charles' favoritism towards Hagano aroused rebellion. Supported by many of the clergy and by some of the most powerful of the Frankish nobles, Robert took up arms, drove Charles into Lotharingia, and was himself crowned king of the Franks (rex Francorum) at Rheims on 29 June 922.[6]

Robert's rule was contested by the Viking leader Rollo, who had settled in the Duchy of Normandy in 911 with the permission of Charles the Simple. During Robert's reign, Rollo remained loyal to Charles, who continued to contest his deposition.[5] Gathering an army, Charles marched against Robert, and on 15 June 923 at the Battle of Soissons Robert was killed. However, his army won the battle and Charles was captured.[7] Charles remained a captive until his death in 929. Robert was succeeded as king by his son-in-law Rudolph, Count of Burgundy, also known as Raoul.

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Béatrice DE VERMANDOIS, daughter of Herbert Ier DE VERMANDOIS comte de Soissons comte de Soissons, was born in 0880 in County of Vermandois. She died aft 26 Mar 0931 in Kingdom of Soissons, France.

Little in known of Beatrice, wife of Robert I, King of France. She is named in two charters (once in full, a second only in abbreviated form as 'Be.') of her son Hugh the Great. She is not referred to as queen, which seemingly places her death before her husband succeeded to the crown. The latest date of the marriage can only be indirectly dated, by the fact that Hugh was an active adult in 922.

Robert CAPET Ier roi des Francs and Béatrice DE VERMANDOIS had the following children:

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Rollo DE NORMANDIE Comte de Rouen Comte de Rouen was born in 0846 in Scandinavia, Europe. He was christened in 0912 in Rouen, Duchy of Normandie. He died on 17 Dec 0932 in Rouen. He was buried on 22 Dec 0932 in Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen, Rouen, Normandie. He married Poppa DE BAYEUX.

ollo of Normandy (circa 860 - circa 932) was a Viking, who became ruler of Normandy was born in (Scandinavia) and died circa 932 in France of unspecified causes. He married Poppa de Bayeux (c 870-c 910) .

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Rollo of Normandy was the founder and first ruler of the Viking principality in what soon became known as Normandy in modern-day western France.

Disputed origins:

The question of Rollo's Danish or Norwegian origins was a matter of heated dispute between Norwegian and Danish historians of the 19th and early 20th century, particularly in the run-up to Normandy's 1000-year-anniversary in 1911. Today, historians still disagree on this question, but most would now agree that a certain conclusion can never be reached.

Danish theory

Dudo of St. Quentin, in his De moribus et actis primorum Normannorum ducum (Latin), tells of a powerful Danish nobleman at loggerheads with the king of Denmark, who then died and left his two sons, Gurim and Rollo, leaving Rollo to be expelled and Gurim killed. William of Jumièges also mentions Rollo's prehistory in his Gesta Normannorum Ducum however he states that he was from the Danish town of Fakse. Wace, writing some 300 years after the event in his Roman de Rou, also mentions the two brothers (as Rou and Garin), as does the Orkneyinga Saga.

Norwegian theory

Norwegian and Icelandic historians identified this Rollo with a son of Rognvald Eysteinsson, Earl of Møre, in Western Norway, based on medieval Norwegian and Icelandic sagas that mention a Ganger Hrolf (Hrolf, the Walker). The oldest source of this version is the Latin Historia Norvegiae, written in Norway at the end of the 12th century. This Hrolf fell foul of the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair, and became a Jarl in Normandy. The nickname of that character came from being so big that no horse could carry him.

Major achievements:

In the reign of Charles II the Bald, Rollo sailed up the Seine River and took Rouen, which he kept as a base of operations. He gained a number of victories over the Franks, and extorted the cession of the province since called Normandy. By the famous treaty which Charles the Bald and Rollo signed the latter agreed to adopt Christianity.

Biography details:

885 Siege of Paris

In 885, Rollo was one of the lesser leaders of the Viking fleet which besieged Paris under Sigfred. Legend has it that an emissary was sent by the king to find the chieftain and negotiate terms. When he asked for this information, the Vikings replied that they were all chieftains in their own right. In 886, when Sigfred retreated in return for tribute, Rollo stayed behind and was eventually bought off and sent to harry Burgundy.

911 Invasion of Western France

Later, he returned to the Seine with his followers (known as Danes, or Norsemen). He invaded the area of northern France now known as Normandy.

In 911 Rollo's forces were defeated at the Battle of Chartres by the troops of King Charles the Simple.[1] In the aftermath of the battle, rather than pay Rollo to leave, as was customary, Charles the Simple understood that he could no longer hold back their onslaught, and decided to give Rollo the coastal lands they occupied under the condition that he defend against other raiding Vikings. In the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911) with King Charles, Rollo pledged feudal allegiance to the king, and converted to Christianity, probably taking the baptismal name Robert.[2] In return, King Charles granted Rollo the lower Seine area (today's upper Normandy) and the titular rulership of Normandy, centred around the city of Rouen.

There exists some argument among historians as to whether Rollo was a "duke" (dux) or whether his position was equivalent to that of a "count" under Charlemagne. According to legend, when required to kiss the foot of King Charles, as a condition of the treaty, he refused to perform so great a humiliation, and when Charles extended his foot to Rollo, Rollo ordered one of his warriors to do so in his place. His warrior then lifted Charles' foot up to his mouth causing him to fall to the ground.

Settlement of Normandy:

Initially, Rollo stayed true to his word of defending the shores of the Seine river in accordance to the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, but in time he and his followers had very different ideas. Rollo began to divide the land between the Epte and Risle rivers among his chieftains and settled there with a de facto capital in Rouen. With these settlements, Rollo began to further raid other Frankish lands, now from the security of a settled homeland, rather than a mobile fleet. Eventually, however, Rollo's men intermarried with the local women, and became more settled as Frenchmen. At the time of his death, Rollo's expansion of his territory had extended as far west as the Vire River.

Death of Rollo:

Sometime around 927, Rollo passed the fief in Normandy to his son, William Longsword. Rollo may have lived for a few years after that, but certainly died before 933. According to the historian Adhemar, 'As Rollo's death drew near, he went mad and had a hundred Christian prisoners beheaded in front of him in honour of the gods whom he had worshipped, and in the end distributed a hundred pounds of gold around the churches in honour of the true God in whose name he had accepted baptism.' Even though Rollo had converted to Christianity, some of his pagan roots surfaced at the end.

Residence at Falaise:

In Falaise, France, is a series of statues that pays tribute to the six Norman Dukes from Rollo to William the Conqueror. The castle here was the principal residence of the Norman Knights.

Children

Offspring of Rollo of Normandy and Poppa van Bayeux (c870-c910)

Name Birth Death Joined with

William Longsword, (893-942) 893 17 December 942 Sprota

Gerloc de Normandie (c912-962) 912 14 October 962 William III of Aquitaine (c900-963)

Dudo ii, 16 (p. 39) makes Poppa the mother of William, but does not give the mother of Gerloc/Adele. Guillaume de Jumièges (GND ii, 6 (v. 1, pp. 64-5)) makes Poppa the mother of both Guillaume and Gerloc.

King Charles III of France (The Simple), gave his daughter Gisele (c 908-933) to Rollo for marriage as the marriage to Poppa, was according to Viking custom and was then invalid in the eyes of the Church of Rome.

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Poppa DE BAYEUX was born c. 0872 in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandie, France. She was christened in 0872. She died on 11 Aug 0930 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France. She was buried in Aug 0930 in Rouen.

Poppa of Bayeux (born c. 880 AD),

She was captured in a raid, and ended up in a common law marriage with the Viking Rollo.

She was the Christian wife or mistress of the Viking conqueror Rollo, who became the first ruler of the fiefdom of Normandy.

She was the mother of William I Longsword, Gerloc and grandmother of Richard the Fearless, who forged the Duchy of Normandy

In 911, the fiefdom of Normandy was created, confirmed by treaty between King Charles III of France and the Viking jarl (that is, prince) Rollo.

According to Luc De Boever, who authored the book “The Montgomerys from the Vikings to Our Present Day” (pg 11):

“The King of France, Charles the Simple, thought it easier to give to Viking Chief Rollo a part of Nuestria which in fact the latter had already conquered. The Archbishop of Rouen organized a meeting between Rollo and the King of France, Charles the Simple, at the Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in the autumn of 911. The two leaders drew up a treaty which satisfied both. Rollo could at last stop the fighting and start organizing his lands. Charles the Simple hoped thus to no longer have anything to fear from the one who is going to stop any new Vikings arriving through the Seine valley. Moreover, Rollo had agreed to support the King of France when in need.

“Rollo agreed to be baptized and to marry Gisele, the King’s daughter; for this to be possible Rollo had to give up his mistress Poppa. Gisele was very young and died before the marriage was consummated. Rollo could thus return to Poppa, and marry her.

“Once baptized, Rollo gained the support of the Church. He became subdued and ruled his territory from Rouen.”

"In a few years, from 911 to 930. Rollo established the foundations of his territory on a solid and lasting footing in Upper Normandy.

Rollo DE NORMANDIE Comte de Rouen and Poppa DE BAYEUX had the following children:

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Herbert Ier DE VERMANDOIS comte de Soissons comte de Soissons, son of Pépin II DE VERMANDOIS Comte de Péronne Comte de Péronne, was born in 0839 in Vermandois, France. He died on 8 Sep 0907 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France. He was buried in 0907 in Vermandois.

Herbert Ier DE VERMANDOIS comte de Soissons had the following children:

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Pépin II DE VERMANDOIS Comte de Péronne Comte de Péronne, son of Bernard DE VERMANDOIS King of Italy Carolingian King of Italy Carolingian and Cunégonde DE GELLONE, was born on 12 Apr 0815 in Vermandois, Kingdom of France. He was christened bef 0818 in Vermandois, France. He died on 23 Feb 0854 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. He was buried aft 23 Feb 0854 in Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio, Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

Pépin II DE VERMANDOIS Comte de Péronne had the following children:

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Bernard DE VERMANDOIS King of Italy Carolingian King of Italy Carolingian, son of Pepin I CARLOMAN QUENTIN King Of The Lombards King Of The Lombards, was born in 0797 in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Aisne, Austrasia, Francia. He died on 17 Apr 0818 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italia. He was buried on 21 Apr 0818 in Saint Amrosius, Provincia di Milano, Lombardy, Italia. He married Cunégonde DE GELLONE.

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Cunégonde DE GELLONE was born on 1 Jan 0797 in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France. She was christened c. 0800. She died on 15 Jun 0835 in Milano, Lombardia, Italie. She was buried aft 19 Jun 0835 in Milano. She and Bernard DE VERMANDOIS King of Italy Carolingian had the following children:

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Pepin I CARLOMAN QUENTIN King Of The Lombards King Of The Lombards, son of Charlemagne King of the Franks King of the Franks and Hildegard Queen of the Franks Queen of the Franks, was born on 12 Apr 0777 in France. He was christened on 12 Apr 0781 in Roma, Lazio, Italy. He died on 8 Jul 0810 in Milano, Lombardy, Italy. He was buried aft 8 Jul 0810 in Basilica di San Zeno Maggiore, Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy.

Pippin the Hunchback (b. before 770 813) was the first son of Charles the Great (CHARLEMAGNE) of his first wife (or concubine) HIMILTRUDE. Accounts describe Pippin as normally proportioned with attractive features. However, his looks were marred by a spinal deformity from which his nickname is derived.

Due to his disability, Pippin was never a strong contender to succeed his father to the Frankish throne. Nevertheless, Charles treated his son well, giving him precedence over his younger brothers as was appropriate for his age. Pippin was an amiable fellow, and he grew to be a well-liked member of Charles' court. The hunchbacked prince probably held some hope for succession from his father. In addition, Pippin was an easy target for discontented nobles, who lavished sympathies on him and lamented the treatment his mother had received when Charles had divorced her in favor of a Lombard princess. Thus, in 780, Charles formally disinherited Pippin and had the pope baptize his third son, CARLOMAN, as Pippin. This move may have been prompted by Charles' third wife and the mother of Carloman, HILDEGARDE. The hunchbacked prince was a threat to her sons' succession, both due to Charles' doting attitude toward him and his name (Frankish succession had alternated between Charleses and Pippins for the last four generations).

Pippin was allowed to remain at court, and Charles continued to give the boy precedence over his younger brothers. Pippin also remained a popular "friend" of discontented nobles, and in 792, several counts played upon Pippin's dislike for his brothers to convince the deformed prince to play the figurehead in their rebellion. The conspirators planned to kill Charles, his wife Hildegarde, and his three sons. Pippin the Hunchback would then be set upon the throne as a more sympathetic (and more easily manipulated) king. The day of the assassination, Pippin pretended to be ill in order to meet with the plotters. The scheme nearly succeeded, but a Lombard deacon named Fardulf ultimately exposed it.

King Charles held an assembly at Regensburg to try the conspirators, and all were found guilty of high treason and ordered executed. Charles seemed still to have held fond feelings for his first son, however, for Pippin's sentence was commuted. Instead, Pippin was forced to enter the monastery of Prüm to live out the rest of his life as a monk. Pippin died there some twenty years later.

Pepin I CARLOMAN QUENTIN King Of The Lombards had the following children:

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Charlemagne King of the Franks King of the Franks, son of Pépin III King of the Franks King of the Franks and Berthe DE LAON Queen of the Franks Queen of the Franks, was born on 2 Apr 0748 in Franconian Empire. He died on 28 Jan 0814 in Royal Palace, Aachen, France. He was buried on 28 Jan 0814 in Palatine Chapel of Aachen, France. He married Hildegard Queen of the Franks.

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Hildegard Queen of the Franks Queen of the Franks was born in 0757 in Kraichgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She died on 30 Apr 0783 in Thionville, Seine-et-Oise, France. She was buried in May 0783 in Abbaye Saint-Arnould, Metz, France. She and Charlemagne King of the Franks had the following children:

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Pépin III King of the Franks King of the Franks, son of Charles MARTEL Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia and Chrodtrud, was born on 2 Apr 0714. He died on 24 Sep 0768 in Saint-Denis, royaume des Francs. He was buried aft 24 Sep 0768 in Saint-Denis Basilica, Saint-Denis, France. He married Berthe DE LAON Queen of the Franks.

Pepin the Short (Pepin III), c. 714-768, first Carolingian king of the Franks (751-68), son of Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne. Succeeding his father as mayor of the palace (741), he ruled Neustria, Burgundy, and Provence, while his brother Carloman (d. 754) received Austrasia and what came to be Thuringia. In 743 the brothers chose Childeric III, a Merovingian, as nominal king of all the Franks. With their help St. Boniface effected far-reaching reforms that strengthened the Frankish church and advanced the conversion of the Saxons. After Carloman had retired (747) to religious life, Pepin, with the consent of the pope, St. Zacharias, forced Childeric into a monastery and had himself proclaimed king (751). In return for recognition by the pope, Pepin defended Rome against the Lombards (754, 756), from whom he wrested the exarchate of Ravenna and other cities. These he ceded to the pope, thus laying the foundation of the Papal States. Pepin also extended his territories and subdued Aquitaine.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_the_Short

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Berthe DE LAON Queen of the Franks Queen of the Franks was born c. 0720 in Laon, France. She died on 12 Jul 0783 in Choisy-au-Bac, Neustrie, royaume des Francs. She was buried on 16 Jul 0783 in Basilique Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. She and Pépin III King of the Franks had the following children:

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Charles MARTEL Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia was born c. 0688 in Quierzy, Aisne, Austrasia, Frankish Empire. He died on 22 Oct 0741 in Quierzy Royal Palace, Franconian Empire. He was buried aft 22 Oct 0741 in Church of the royal abbey of Saint Denis, Neustria, kingdom of the Franks. He married Chrodtrud.

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Chrodtrud was born c. 0688 in Wormsgau, Franconian Empire. She died on 22 Oct 0725 in Trier, Austrasia, France. She was buried in 0725 in Abbey of Saint-Arnould, Metz, France. She and Charles MARTEL Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia had the following children: