42nd Generation

-1868458878. Charles II "The Bald," Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (*+) was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau Province, East Francia (Germany). In medieval history, West Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks refers to the western part of the Frankish Empire established by Charlemagne. It represents the earliest stage of the Kingdom of France, lasting from about 840 until 987. West Francia emerged from the partition of the Carolingian Empire in 843 under the Treaty of Verdun following the death of Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious.
West Francia extended further south than modern France, but it did not extend as far east. West Francia did not include such future French holdings as Lorraine, County and Kingdom of Burgundy (the Duchy being French), Alsace and Provence in the east and southeast for example. In addition, by the 10th century the rule of its kings was greatly reduced even within the West Frankish realm by the increase in power of great territorial magnates over their large and usually territorially contiguous fiefs. This process was compounded by wars among those magnates, including against or alongside the Crown, and endless Viking invasions. Notably, Normandy was given to the rule of the Norseman Rollo following an unsuccessful raid. It was first a county then a duchy, and like other great fiefs of West Francia became largely autonomous, with magnates even more powerful than their monarch. In Brittany and Catalonia the authority of the West Frankish king was barely felt. West Frankish kings were elected by the secular and ecclesiastic magnates, and for the half-century between 888 and 936 they chose alternately from the Carolingian and Robertian houses.[1] By this time the power of king became weaker and more nominal, as the regional dukes and nobles became more powerful in their semi-independent regions. The Robertians, after becoming counts of Paris and dukes of France, became kings themselves and established the Capetian dynasty after 987, which is, although arbitrary, generally defined as the gradual transition towards the Kingdom of France. He died on 6 October 877 at the age of 54 in Brides Les Bains, Bourgogne, West Francia (France). Ermentrude, Countess of Orleans (*) and Charles II "The Bald," Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (*+) were married on 13 December 842 in Crecy, West Francia (France).

-1868458877. Ermentrude, Countess of Orleans (*) was born on 27 September 830 in Of Orleans, Neustria, West Francia (France). She died on 6 October 869 at the age of 39.

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