Charlemagne

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His lineage is discussed on <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="GoudyOlSt BT" ><A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Friends, Romans, Countrymen"><U>Friends, Romans, Countrymen</U></A></FONT><A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Friends, Romans, Countrymen">.</A></div> <bR> <div> You may not be aware of the significance of tracing the family to Charlemagne. He is probably the most important find a genealogist can make. His lineage is phenomenal and you will not find many that are as complete. Finding Charlemagne is like grabbing the brass ring.</div> <bR> <div> I was amazed when I was directed to the Baillon site. I opened my gedcom and typed her name in and found she was the 4th great grandmother of the Beauchamp sisters. Therefore if you connect to Louis and Rose, Jean Baptiste and Marguerite (her picture is on the "Hardy Boys" page) or Louis' father George W., who's second marriage was to Esther Beauchamp, you can claim the Royal Lineage. I was impressed and then I read the site. She is <B>documented</B> to Charlemagne.</div> <bR> <div> At this point it should be said I reserved this page for an explanation of the importance of finding a connection to Charlemagne. His lineage is discussed on <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="GoudyOlSt BT" ><U>Friends, Romans, Countrymen</U></FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> You may not be aware of the significance of tracing the family to Charlemagne. He is probably the most important find a genealogist can make. His lineage is phenomenal and you will not find many that are as complete. Finding Charlemagne is like grabbing the brass ring.</div> <bR> <div> I was amazed when I was directed to the Baillon site. I opened my gedcom and typed her name in and found she was the 4th great grandmother of the Beauchamp sisters. Therefore if you connect to Louis and Rose, Jean Baptiste and Marguerite (her picture is on the "Hardy Boys" page) or Louis' father George W., who's second marriage was to Esther Beauchamp, you can claim the Royal Lineage. I was impressed and then I read the site. She is <B>documented</B> to Charlemagne.</div> <bR> <div> At this point it should be noted just what we have here. Everyone, on their own, got to Milton. With help from Helen Manley, a genealogist in Minnesota and a fellow French Canadian descendant, I nailed Francois Hardy born 1777. This was all I needed to make the Quebec records work for me. Getting all the male and female lines through Quebec was relatively easy. Then along comes Catherine Baillon and her lineage. </div> <bR> <div> This simply means that if you connect to the Hardy Boys, with Beauchamp wives, then your lineage is UNBROKEN and DOCUMENTED for at least 38 generations. If you don't then your lineage is still into France in the late 1500s. We all share the enormously rich Canadian Pioneer heritage. The building of a nation.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> e noted just what we have here. Everyone, on their own, got to Milton. With help from Helen Manley, a genealogist in Minnesota and a fellow French Canadian descendant, I nailed Francois Hardy born 1777. This was all I needed to make the Quebec records work for me. Getting all the male and female lines through Quebec was relatively easy. Then along comes Catherine Baillon and her lineage. </div> <bR> <div> This simply means that if you connect to the Hardy Boys, with Beauchamp wives, then your lineage is UNBROKEN and DOCUMENTED for at least 38 generations. If you don't then your lineage is still into France in the late 1500s. We all share the enormously rich Canadian Pioneer heritage. The building of a nation.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0c0c8700.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="368" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>King of the Franks</B> Elder son of <U>Pepin the Short </U>and a grandson of <U>Charles Martel</U>, Charlemagne shared with his brother <U>Carloman</U> in the succession to his father’s kingdom. At Carloman’s death (771), young Charlemagne annexed his brother’s lands, disinheriting Carloman’s two young sons, who fled with their mother to the court of <U>Desiderius</U>, king of the Lombards. When Desiderius conquered part of the papal lands and attempted to force Pope <U>Adrian I</U> to recognize Carloman’s sons, Charlemagne intervened (773) on the side of the pope and defeated the Lombards. At Rome, Charlemagne was received by Adrian as patrician of the Romans (a title he had received with his father in 754), and he confirmed his father’s donation to the Holy See. Shortly afterward he took Pavia, the Lombard capital, and assumed the iron crown of the Lombard kings of Italy. In 778 he invaded Spain, hoping to take advantage of civil war among the Muslim rulers of that kingdom, but was repulsed at Zaragoza. In later campaigns conducted by local counts, Barcelona was captured (801) and a frontier established beyond the Pyrenees. Charlemagne’s struggle with the pagan Saxons, whose greatest leader was <U>Widukind</U>, lasted from 772 until 804. By dint of forced conversions, wholesale massacres, and the transportation of thousands of Saxons to the interior of the Frankish kingdom, Charlemagne made his domination over Saxony complete. In 788 he annexed the semi-independent duchy of Bavaria, after deposing its duke, Tassilo. He also warred successfully against the Avars and the Slavs, establishing a frontier south of the Danube.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0c1b4e50.jpg" border=0 width="180" height="229" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Emperor of the West</B> In 799 the new pope, <U>Leo III</U>, threatened with deposition by the Romans, appealed to Charlemagne. Charlemagne hastened to Rome to support Leo, and on Christmas Day, 800, was crowned emperor by the pope. His coronation legitimized Charlemagne’s rule over the former Roman empire in W Europe and finalized the split between the Byzantine and Roman empires. After years of negotiation and war, Charlemagne received recognition from the Byzantine emperor Michael I in 812; in return Charlemagne renounced his claims to Istria, Venice, and Dalmatia, which he had held briefly. The end of Charlemagne’s reign was troubled by the raids of Norse and Danes , so Charlemagne took vigorous measures for the construction of a fleet, which his successors neglected. His land frontiers he had already protected by the creation of marches. In 813, Charlemagne designated his son <U>Louis I</U> as co-emperor and his successor and crowned him at <U>Aachen</U>. </div> <div> <B>Achievements of His Reign</B> In his government Charlemagne continued and systematized the administrative machinery of his predecessors. He permitted conquered peoples to retain their own laws, which he codified when possible, and he issued many <U>capitularies</U> (gathered in the <U>Monumenta Germaniae historica</U>). A noteworthy achievement was the creation of a system by which he could supervise his administrators in even the most distant lands; his <I>missi dominici</I> were personal representatives with wide powers who regularly inspected their assigned districts. He strove to educate the clergy and exercised more direct control over the appointment of bishops and he acted as arbiter in theological disputes by summoning councils, notably that at Frankfurt (794), where <U>adoptionism</U> was rejected and some of the decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea were condemned. He stimulated foreign trade and entertained friendly relations with England and with <U>Harun al-Rashid</U>. In 813, Charlemagne designated his son <U>Louis I</U> as co-emperor and his successor and crowned him at <U>Aachen</U>. Charlemagne’s court at Aachen was the center of an intellectual renaissance. The palace school, under the leadership of <U>Alcuin</U>, became famous; numerous schools for children of all classes were also established throughout the empire during Charlemagne’s reign. The preservation of classical literature was aided by his initiatives. Prominent figures of the Carolingian renaissance included <U>Paul the Deacon</U> and <U>Einhard</U>. </div> <div> <B>Character and Influence</B> In his daily life Charlemagne affected the simple manners of his Frankish forebears, wore Frankish clothes, and led a frugal existence. He was beatified after his death and in some churches has been honored as a saint. Surrounded by his legendary 12 paladins, he became the central figure of a cycle of romance. At first, legend pictured him as the champion of Christendom; later he appeared as a vacillating old man, almost a comic figure. His characterization in the <I>Chanson de Roland</I> has impressed itself indelibly on the imagination of the Western world. The vogue of the Charlemagne epic ebbed somewhat after the Renaissance but was revived again in the 19th cent. by Victor Hugo and other members of the Romantic school. Charlemagne’s creation (or re-creation) of an empire was the basis of the theory of the <U>Holy Roman Empire</U>; it was his example that <U>Napoleon I</U><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>had in mind when he tried to assume his succession in 1804.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0c4c80b0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="267" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Tomb of Charlemagne</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lardie"> <img src="HTMLobj-199/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="64" height="58">  </A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-200/bayard.mid" autostart="true" hidden="true">  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>