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Charles Unknown1
M, #13631, Deceased, d. 21 May 992
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Parents
| Father | Louis IV d'Outremer Unknown (b. 918, d. 10 September 954) |
| Mother | Gerberga Unknown (b. about 913, d. 5 May 984) |
Family: Adelaide Unknown (b. about 953, d. before 979)
| Daughter | Gerberge Unknown+ (b. about 975, d. 27 January 1018) |
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| Birth | Charles Unknown was born Person Source, Y.2 |
| Residence | He resided See notes.1 |
| User Reference Number | He; 18654 |
| Note | Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Residence Charles of Lorraine (Laon 953 – 993 in Orléans) was the son of Louis IV of France and Gerberga of Saxony and younger brother of King Lothair. He was a sixth generation descendant of Charlemagne. Having been excluded from the throne of France, the German Emperor Otto II, made Charles duke of Lower Lorraine in 977. His father probably gave him royal powers in Burgundy, but Lothair took them back upon reaching his majority. In 977, he accused Lothair's wife, Emma, daughter of Lothair II of Italy of infideility with Adalberon, Bishop of Laon. The council of Saint-Macre exonerated the queen and the bishop, but Charles maintained his claim and was driven from the kingdom, finding refuge at the court of his cousin, Otto II. Otto promised to crown Charles as soon as Lothair was out of the way and Charles did homage, receiving back Lower Lorraine. In August 978, Lothair invaded Germany and captured the imperial capital of Aachen, but failed to capture either Otto or Charles. In October, Otto and Charles in turn invaded France, devastating the land around Rheims, Soissons, and Laon. In the latter city, the chief seat of the kings of France, Charles was crowned by Theodoric I, Bishop of Metz. Lothair fled to Paris and was there besieged. But a relief army of Hugh Capet's forced Otto and Charles to lift the siege on 30 November. Lothair and Capet, the tables turned once more, chased the German king and his liege back to Aachen and retook Laon. As he had been a vassal also of Lothair, his acts on behalf of Otto were considered treason and he was thereafter excluded from the throne. On Lothair's death (986), the magnates elected his son Louis V and on the latter's death (987), Hugh Capet. Thus, the Capetians came to the throne over the disgraced and ignored Charles. Charles marriage to the lowborn daughter of a vassal of Hugh was championed by his opponents as a cardinal reason to deny him the throne. In order to have free hand towards France, he resigned his duchy to regency of his eldest son Otto. Charles made war on Hugh, even taking Rheims and Laon. However, on Easter Monday 991, he was captured, through the perfidy of the Bishop Adalberon, and with his young second son Louis imprisoned by Hugh in Orléans, where he died a short while later, in or before 993. In 1666, the sepulchre of Charles was discovered in the Basilica of Saint-Servais in Maastricht. His skin appears to have been interred there only in 1001, but that is not the date of his death, as some scholars assumed. Charles married firstly (970) a daughter of Robert of Vermandois, count of Meaux. Among their children were: * Otto, succeeded him as Duke of Lower Lotharingia He married secondly (975) Adelaide, daughter of a vassal of Hugh Capet. Among their children were: * Adelaide * Gerberga of Lower Lorraine, countess of Brussels, who married Lambert I, Count of Leuven * Louis, followed his father to France and died in prison * Charles (b.989), died young * (possibly) Ermengarde, m Albert, Count of Namur (various sources assign paternity of Ermengarde alternatively to Charles, or to his son Otto) He may have married thirdly Bonne, daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun. Though Charles ruled Lower Lorraine, the Dukes of Lorraine (Upper Lotharingia) counted him as Charles I of Lorraine. |
| Birth | He was born in 953.1 |
| His father Louis IV d'Outremer Unknown died on 10 September 954 in Rheims, Champagne, France. | |
| His daughter Gerberge Unknown was born about 975. | |
| Marriage | Charles Unknown and Adelaide Unknown were married in 975.1 |
| His wife Adelaide Unknown died before 979. | |
| His mother Gerberga Unknown died on 5 May 984 in Rheims, Champagne, France. | |
| Death | He died on 21 May 992 in Orleans, France.1 |
Citations
John Richard McMullen
M, #13641, Deceased, b. about 1905
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| Father | George McMullen (b. about 1874) |
| Mother | Sarah Ann Lewis (b. 7 September 1868) |
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| User Reference Number | John Richard McMullen; 23656 |
| Birth | He was born about 1905 in Shrewsbury. |
George Slee
M, #13649, Deceased, b. 11 September 1844
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| User Reference Number | George Slee; 18361 |
| Birth | He was born on 11 September 1844. |