Beatrice and charlemagne biography

Charlemagne was the first Holy Roman Emperor, and is the ancestor of most of the royalty of Europe. I recently watched a video tracing Charlemagne’s most senior heirs over the centuries. However, this video focuses on male or male-preferring heirs, as did many historical cultures.

I’m more interested in gender-neutral heirs. I decided to figure out who is Charlemagne’s most senior living descendant, where we always go from parent to eldest child, going to the next-eldest child if someone has no living descendants. This is a system known as “absolute primogeniture”.

I’m not a historian, so this line of descendants has a “Wikipedia” level of accuracy: I followed the senior-most descendants who were famous enough to have articles easily findable on the internet, and I didn’t check any primary or secondary sources. I didn’t intentionally skip illegitimate children, but the illegitimate children I did encounter weren’t necessarily famous enough to be easily findable.

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Charlemagne

King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor

For other uses, see Charlemagne (disambiguation).

Charlemagne (SHAR-lə-mayn; 2 April ^[a] – 28 January ) was King of the Franks from , King of the Lombards from , and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from , holding these titles until his death in He united most of Western and Central Europe, and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier. Charlemagne's reign was marked by political and social changes that had lasting influence on Europe throughout the Middle Ages.

A member of the Frankish Carolingian dynasty, Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. With his brother, Carloman I, he became king of the Franks in following Pepin's death and became the sole ruler three years later. Charlemagne continued his father's policy of protecting the papacy and became its chief

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Beatrice of Vermandois

Queen of West Francia from to

Beatrice of Vermandois (c.&#; – after 26 March ) was a Carolingian aristocrat, queen of Western Francia by marriage to Robert I, and stepmother of Hugh the Great.

Life

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Beatrice was the daughter of Herbert inom, Count of Vermandois. She was also the sister of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, and was a descendant in the male line of karl den store through King Bernard of Italy.^[a] Through her marriage to Robert I, she was an ancestress of the Capetian dynasty. On 15 June her husband Robert was killed at the Battle of Soissons shortly after which their son Hugh was offered the crown but refused. Beatrice died in

Marriage and issue

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Beatrice married c.&#;, becoming the second wife of Robert, Margrave of Neustria, who became the King of France in They were the parents of:

Notes

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1. ^According to the Abbreviatio bygd Frater Andreas, Beatrice was a great-granddaughter of Bernard, king of Italy