Interesting. However, most of the article seems like an introduction and it seems to end just when it starts to delve into the actual topic.
I too have a direct lineage to charlemagne. He's 38 generations up from me. Huge geneology buff.
I too have a direct lineage to charlemagne. He's 38 generations up from me. Huge geneology buff.Must we from this point forward refer to you as Vincelemagne?
Or will Takeda the Pretty Good be acceptable?
Unlike Sir Christopher Lee, I do not have a cd out about heavy metal christmas carols, so 'Pretty good' is gererous praise indeed!
Especially considering how controversial or not so well received some of my post history is :P
I am certainly not a 'sir', heheheheh.
I too have a direct lineage to charlemagne. He's 38 generations up from me. Huge geneology buff.
Aren't most people of western European ancestry descendants of Charlemagne? Since he lived over a thousand years ago, he is getting close to the "all or none" point of modern people in his region being descended from him -- and we can definitely rule out the "none" option.
I too have a direct lineage to charlemagne. He's 38 generations up from me. Huge geneology buff.Aren't most people of western European ancestry descendants of Charlemagne? Since he lived over a thousand years ago, he is getting close to the "all or none" point of modern people in his region being descended from him -- and we can definitely rule out the "none" option.
Hmm. so going up 38 generations as I have... that means the number of ancestors I have from that time period is 274.8 billion of them. Wonder what the population was... You could be right. Websites estimate world population at the time of only 200 million so yeah. Theoretically if I were able to follow every branch up, I could expect several hundred of the branches to end in charlemagne, as could everyone else...
Thats some wierd math...
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Since I'm pretty sure that all the modern European ruling families can in some way trace lineage back to Charlemagne (since the royal families are so intermarried anyway), and almost all European descended Americans can trace some lineage to one of the European royals; pretty much all of White America is approximately 38 generations removed from Charlemagne.
The only really great trick is tracing your lineage.
Yeah, truth be told I'd be way more interested in other branches of my tree than I am with the charlemagne branch... As far as i've been up the tree on my fathers side i'm norway by way of denmark by way of prussia by way of minnesota. I'm far more interested in the more recent possibly viking parts of my tree than I am in the franks. Of course that may be a big intersection for me... franco prussian being what it is...
Lots of lutheran and lots of elk hunting going on.
I've got lineage back to Niall of the Nine Hostages, as well as Dal Riada Scot lineage that fought the Romans north of the wall and then to Malcolm Irwin the 4th King of Scotland, then fell to lesser nobles, then Scottish knights, then commoner Scots. I've got family from central Ireland (County Cork) as well. My European heritage is Irish and Scottish with no direct Charlemagne connection at all.
My Japanese mother's side (Shimizu) goes back a thousand years (at least on record) as a physicians family serving a noble house in Matsue, Japan, so no Charlemagne link that way. Without proper records I could go back another thousand years, with a family based in Matsue, there was an early Japanese kingdom defeated by the Yamato polity (which formed the original imperial bloodline). Matsue was given secondary status, since its deities Susano-o and Okuni-nushi gained secondary status to Ameterasu-Omikami, the chief goddess of the pantheon (and who was the chief deity of the Yamato). That's as far back as I could go on speculation.
I think I'm an exception to a European blood linkage to Charlemagne.