Theobald I, known as the Trickster, was a vassal of 10th Century West Frankish King Lothair.
Category: Ancestors
Ermengarde was the wife of Louis I, Emperor of the West.
She is my 32 x great-grandmother.
Pepin was Italian nobility who took sides in the War of Carolingian succession. He is my 30 x great-grandfather.
Historical records mention her as the husband of Rorrick, the Count of Maine. Everything I know about her I’ve inferred from her husband’s, or her children’s, lives.
We know little of Ranulf I’s wife. She was the daughter of nobility but the chronicles of the time document little of her.
She is my 30 x great-grandmother.
Hildegarde was the daughter of Louis I, who was Emperor of the West and son of Emperor Charlemagne.
She is my 31 x great-grandmother.
Louis was the Emperor of the West following the Wars of Carolingian Succession. The ‘West’ refers to the western segment of Charlemagne’s empire and maps to most of modern-day France.
Rorrick was the Count of Maine, which included part of modern-day Brittany at the time. His daughter married Count Ranulf of Poitiers.
He is my 31 x great-grandfather.
Agnes of Burgundy had blue blood as the grand-daughter of a King of ?? Italy but had to scheme and plot to make sure she and her children would not lose influence when her first husband died.
Emiliane was the second wife of Ebalus Manzer. Little else about her life is documented ?♂️