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Ancestors of James Arthur Proffitt

Generation No. 39

412777186306. Rognvald Olafsson¹¹⁰⁴, born Abt. 790 in Jutland, Norway¹¹⁰⁴; died Abt. 790¹¹⁰⁴. He was the son of 825554372612. Olaf Gudrodsson.

Child of Rognvald Olafsson is:

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Aseda Rognvaldsson, born Abt. 812 in Maer, Norway; married Eystein Or Glumra Ivarsson.

412777186576. Ealmund, born Abt. 745. He was the son of 825554373152. Eoppa.

Notes for Ealmund:
Ealmund is the semi-legendary father of King Egbert of Wessex, used as a placeholder to show the genealogical relationship of all the West Saxon kings, however he might have been an actual West Saxon noble.

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Child of Ealmund is:

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King Egbert of Wessex, born Abt. 775; died 839; married Redburga.

      412777186692. Count Luitfrid II of Alsace¹¹⁰⁴, born Abt. 740 in Alsace, France¹¹⁰⁴; died Abt. 780 in France¹¹⁰⁴. He was the son of 825554373384. Duke Luitfrid I of Alsace and 825554373385. Edith. He married 412777186693. Hiltrude.

      412777186693. Hiltrude¹¹⁰⁴, born Abt. 744 in Upper, Alsace, France¹¹⁰⁴.

Child of Luitfrid and Hiltrude is:

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Count Hugues III of Alsace, born Abt. 765 in Upper, Alsace, France; died Abt. 839; married Ava.

      412777186696. King Bernard of Vermandois of Italy¹¹⁰⁴, born Abt. 797 in Vermandois, Normandy, France¹¹⁰⁴; died 17 Apr 818 in France¹¹⁰⁴. He was the son of 825554373392. King Pippin Carloman of Italy and 825554373393. Bertha of Toulouse. He married 412777186697. Queen Cunigunde of Italy.

      412777186697. Queen Cunigunde of Italy¹¹⁰⁴, born Abt. 797 in France¹¹⁰⁴.

Child of Bernard and Cunigunde is:

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Count Pepin Quentin, born Abt. 818 in Vermandois, Normandy, France; died Abt. 818 in France.

412777186880. King Cináed mac Ailpín of Scots & Picts, born Abt. 810 in Scotland¹¹⁰⁴; died 6 Feb 858/59 in Fortevoit, Perthshire, Scotland¹¹⁰⁴. He was the son of 825554373760. King Ailpín of Dalriada.

Children of King Cináed mac Ailpín of Scots & Picts are:

	206388593440	i.		King Causantin mac Cináeda of Scots, born Abt. 836 in Scotland; died Abt. 877 in Inverdovat, Forgan, Fifeshire, Scotland.
		ii.		Aed, born Abt. 830; died 878 ¹¹⁰⁵

      412777191314. King Lothaire I of Italy¹¹⁰⁶, born 795 in France¹¹⁰⁶; died 29 Sep 855¹¹⁰⁶. He was the son of 412777191316. West Roly Roman Emperor Louis the Pious and 825554382629. West Holy Roman Empress Ermengarde. He married 412777191315. Queen Ermengarde of Italy 15 Oct 821 in Thionville, Moselle, France¹¹⁰⁶.

      412777191315. Queen Ermengarde of Italy¹¹⁰⁶, born Abt. 800 in Alsace, France¹¹⁰⁶; died 20 Mar 850/51¹¹⁰⁶.

Child of Lothaire and Ermengarde is:

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Duchess Ermengarde of Moselle, born Abt. 830 in Alsace, Lorraine, France; married Count Gilbert of Brabant 846.

      412777191316. West Roly Roman Emperor Louis the Pious¹¹⁰⁶, born Aug 778 in Casseneuil, Lot Et Garonne, France¹¹⁰⁶; died 20 Jun 840 in Near Ingelheim, Rhinehessen, Hesse¹¹⁰⁶. He was the son of 825554382632. Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and 825554382633. Hildegard of Aachen. He married 412777191317. Judith of Bavaria Feb 818/19¹¹⁰⁶.

      412777191317. Judith of Bavaria¹¹⁰⁶, born 10 Jan 1934 in Bavaria, Germany¹¹⁰⁶; died 19 Apr 843 in Tours, Indre Et Loire, France¹¹⁰⁶.

Notes for West Roly Roman Emperor Louis the Pious:
Charles' Successors: Louis the Pious
Charles had only one son who survived him: Louis, whose patronage of the Church earned him the nickname of Pious. Louis was a good king but an unremarkable one. His principal accomplishment was to preserve and further his father's accomplishments, and to have a long life in his turn.

Louis had three sons. His settlement of their estates demonstrates how far the Franks still had to go in political understanding, for he divided the Frankish empire among the three of them, splitting what his forefathers had brought together with so much toil.

The division of the empire made perfect sense to the Franks. The titles, privileges and lands of Louis belonged to him, not to some abstraction known as the State. They were his in the same sense as were his hounds and horses. Wanting to provide properly for his three boys, he divided the titles and lands and privileges, as indeed Charlemagne would have done had his son Pepin survived.

Louis' son Charles got the western portion of the empire and ruled the Franks. Louis' son Louis got Germany. Lothar got Italy and a strip of territories between Germany and France. All three were unhappy with the arrangements and went to war after Louis' death. in 849, at Verdun, the three agreed on the final arrangements, which weren't much different from what I've just described.

Look at a map of Europe today. There is France to the west, and Germany to the east. Between them you can still find the fragments of Lothar's kingdom, the Middle Kingdom: Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland. The divisions made at Verdun would persist for over a thousand years.

The Later Carolingians
The Frankish practice of dividing the realm led to further splits, not only of land but of rights and powers. No new Charlemagne emerged from these families to unite the lands anew, and many of the kings were outright incompetent. Their names are indicative: after Charles the Great and Louis the Pious, we get kings with names like Louis the Fat and Charles the Simple.

To add to their woes, the later 800s and early 900s were not a time for incompetents. The hundred year stretch from 850 to 950 was filled with the worst of the Viking invasions, to which were added Moslem raids and pirates in the south and Magyar raids from the east. Against these pressures the Carolingians could not stand.

Charles' great empire collapsed steadily, fragmenting into dozens of pieces. The monasteries were plundered, the towns burned. Even the very title of emperor was lost again for a time. When it reappeared, it was taken by a German king.

The Later Carolingian Empire
Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, managed to maintain his inheritance intact, so that Charles' creation lasted for two generations. Louis had three sons and he divided the empire between them. But those sons fought and a final agreement wasn't reached until 843. Even so, their various heirs quarrelled from time to time, so that from the 870s onward, even the fragments of the Carolingian Empire became fragmented.

The basic three-fold division held after a fashion. The Kingdom of the West Franks corresponded more or less with France, though southern France broke away fairly early. In the east, various German kings ruled until Otto I (936-973) re-united much of the eastern lands, plus Italy, and was able to claim the title of Emperor. That was how the Holy Roman Empire came to be based in Germany.

The so-called Middle Kingdom lay between these two, and it fragmented early. This area comprised the Rhineland, Flanders, and Burgundy. We still see evidence of this today: France is to the west, Germany to the east, and in between are the Low Countries and Switzerland.

The ninth and tenth centuries were a bad time for internal political stability, however; for this was the age of the Vikings. And around the same time the Vikings were attacking the northern and western periphery of Europe, two other peoples were attacking: Muslims to the south, and Magyars from the east.

http://history.idbsu.edu/westciv/charles/index.html
History of Western Civilization
Dr. E.L. Skip Knox
Questions and comments
Boise State University
Last revised: 08/27/99

Child of Louis and Judith is:

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King Charles of West Franks, born 15 May 823 in Frankfurt, Hessen Nassau, Germany; died 6 Oct 877 in Brios, France; married Queen Ermentrude of West Franks 14 Dec 842 in Crecy, France.

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