Family/Spouse: Hunroch, Margrave of Friuli. Margrave died in 811. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
her first

1. Eberhard, Count of Frioul died in 864.

Notes:

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Begue was Chamberlain of Louis of Aquitaine in 776. He is also known as
Bego II.

married "natural daughter" Alpais in 806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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AKA Aupails. Her mother is not known. Alpais was Abbess of St. Peter's at
Rheims, France.

married Rotrude on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Charles died after four years of failing health, from pleurisy, and is buried in the chapel at Aachen (now part of the cathedral)(Aachen = Aix la Chapelle).  A contemporary account states that he was almost seven feet in height, in an era when few

men were even six feet - "large and strong, and of lofty stature, though not disproportionately tall...the upper part of

his head was round, his eyes very large and animated, nose a little long, hair fair, and face laughing and merry."  He was warm, outgoing and athletic. {Popular account: "Charlemagne," Harold Lamb (Doubleday, 1954).}

        ---  Compton's Encyclopedia (America On-Line, 1995) reports:  CHARLEMAGNE 742?-814). "By the sword and the cross," Charlemagne (Charles the Great) became master of Western Europe. It was falling into decay when Charlemagne became joint king of

the Franks in 768. Except in the monasteries, people had all but forgotten education and the arts. Boldly

Charlemagne conquered barbarians and kings alike. By restoring the roots of learning and order,  he preserved many political rights and revived culture.

   Charlemagne's grandfather was Charles Martel, the warrior who crushed the Saracens (see Charles Martel). Charlemagne was the elder son of Bertrade ("Bertha Greatfoot") and Pepin the Short, first "mayor of the palace" to become king of the Franks.

Although schools had almost disappeared in the 8th century, historians believe that Bertrade gave young Charles some education and that he learned to read. His devotion to the church motivated him throughout life.

   Charlemagne was tall, powerful, and tireless. His secretary, Eginhard, wrote that Charlemagne had fair hair and a "face laughing and merry . . . his appearance was always stately and dignified." He had a ready wit, but could be stern. His tastes

were simple and moderate. He delighted in hunting, riding, and swimming. He wore the Frankish dress--linen shirt and breeches, a silk-fringed tunic, hose wrapped with bands, and, in winter, a tight coat of otter or marten skins. Over all these garments

"he flung a blue cloak, and he always had a sword girt about him."

   Charlemagne's character was contradictory. In an age when the usual penalty for defeat was death, Charlemagne several times spared the lives of his defeated foes; yet in 782 at Verden, after a Saxon uprising, he ordered 4,500 Saxons beheaded. He

compelled the clergy and nobles  to reform, but he divorced two of his four wives without any cause. He forced kings and princes to kneel at his feet, yet his mother and his two favorite wives often overruled him in his own household.

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A map of Charlemagne's empire is posted (1/99) at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/karemp.htm

Died:
9 a.m.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Mayor of the Palace

Notes:

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Pippin was crowned at Soissons in 11-751 and consecrated King at St. Denis
in 754 by Winfred (St. Boniface, b. ca. 675 in Devonshire, England, a monk
who was commissioned by the pope to work in Germany, murdered in 754 by
pagans, called the Apostle to the Germans; his consecration of Pippin was
approved by the pope, wherein the church acknowledged his royal title and
which Pippin rewarded by establishing the temporal power of the papacy).
He extended Austrasian power beyond the Rhine and the Pyrenees, and his
alliance with the church opened the way for restoration of the western
empire (achieved by his son, Charles the Great). Pippin was the first king
of the new monarchy which would take its name (Carolingian) from his great
son (Carolus = Charles). A younger son, Carloman, received the southern
half of his domains, but on Carloman's death in Dec. 771 Charles siezed
these lands.

III married Laon, Bertha of on Yes, date unknown. Bertha died in 783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Bertha is daughter of Count Canbert "of Laon." She was termed "Big-footed
Bertha."