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Bald", King Charles II "The

Bald", King Charles II "The

Male 823 - 877  (54 years)

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  • Name Bald", Charles II "The  [1, 2] 
    Title King 
    Birth 13 Jun 823  Frankfort-am-Main Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 Oct 877  Mt. Cenis in the Alps Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Burial St Denis, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I7121  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 20 Dec 2024 

    Father Empire, EMPEROR Louis I "The Fair" Emperor Holy Roman,   b. Aug 778, Casseneuil, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jun 840, Manz Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Bavaria, EMPRESS OF HOLY ROMAN EMP Judith Princess of,   b. Abt 800, Of, Altdorf, Bavaria Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 843, , Tours, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Feb 819  Aix La Chapelle, Austrasia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Family ID F2847  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Orleans, QUEEN OF THE WEST FRANKS Ermentrude Countess of,   b. 27 Sep 830, Of, Orléans, Neustria Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Oct 869 (Age 39 years) 
    Marriage 13 Dec 842  , CrecyFrance Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Children 
    +1. France, King of the Franks Louis II "The Stammerer" King of,   b. 846, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Apr 879, Compiègne, Neustria Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. France, Queen of England Judith Princess of,   b. 844, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 870 (Age > 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. France, ABBOT OF ECHTERNACH Carloman Prince of,   b. Abt Jun 845, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 876, Epternac, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. France, "The Lame" Lothaire Prince of,   b. Abt 847, Of, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 865 (Age 18 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Aquitaine, Charles King of,   b. 847, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 865, Buzançais, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 18 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. France, AbbesStRadegonde Rotrude Princess of,   b. 850, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. France, ABBESS OF HASNON Ermentrud Princess of,   b. Abt 854, Of, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. France, Hildegarde Princess of,   b. Abt 856, Of, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. France, Gisèle Princess of,   b. Abt 858, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jul 874 (Age 16 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F2956  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Dec 2024 

    Family 2 Metz (Ardennes), QUEEN OF THE WEST FRANKS Richilde Countess of 
    Marriage 22 Jan 870  Aix La ChapelleFrance Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Family ID F2955  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Dec 2024 

  • Notes 


    • Charles II or Charles the Bald

      823-77, emperor of the West (875-77) and king of the West Franks (843-77); son of Emperor Louis I by a second marriage. The efforts of Louis to create a kingdom for Charles were responsible for the repeated revolts of Louis's elder sons that disturbed the latter part of Louis's reign. When Lothair I, the eldest and heir to the imperial title, attempted to reunite the empire after Louis's death (840), Charles and Louis the German marched against their brother and defeated him at Fontenoy (841). Reaffirming their alliance in 842 (see Strasbourg, Oath of), they signed (843) with Lothair the Treaty of Verdun (see Verdun, Treaty of), which divided the empire into three parts. The part roughly corresponding to modern France fell to Charles. He was almost continuously at war with his brothers and their sons, with the Norsemen (or Normans, as they came to be known in France), and with rebellious subjects. When Charles's nephew Lothair, son of Lothair I and king of Lotharingia, died in 869, Charles seized his kingdom but was forced by the Treaty of Mersen (870) to divide it with Louis the German. In 875, at the death of his nephew Louis II, who had succeeded Lothair I as emperor, Charles secured the imperial crown. His reign witnessed the growth of the power of the nobles at the expense of the royal power and thus marked the rise of local feudalism. Charles's chief adviser was Archbishop Hincmar.

  • Sources 
    1. [S327] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ancestral File (TM).

    2. [S1027] Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700; Eigth Edidition, (Name: Genealogical Publishing Company; Date: 2004;).

    3. [S327] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ancestral File (TM).
      Date of Import: Feb 3, 2000


  

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