Child of Mainier and unknown
E2......Gainfroi b abt 775 Moselle

GENERATION B

Note: Theidlindus was the daughter of Aubri II de BLOIS Cte Blois

Child of Gainfroi and Theidlindus
E3......Giselbert b abt 796

Note: Louis, the son of King Charles II the Bald, was made king of Aquitaine under his father's tutelage in 867. Charles became emperor in 875 and two years later left Louis as regent while he defended Italy for Pope John VIII. Louis was elected king of the West Franks in December 877. At a council at Troyes in 878, the Pope attempted to force Louis to take up the role of defender of the papacy, but Louis refused. Louis and his cousin Louis the Younger, ruler of the East Frankish kingdom, agreed to maintain the division of Lotharingia that their respective fathers had negotiated in the Treaty of Mersen in 870. Louis had hoped to redistribute offices of state but was frustrated by the Frankish magnates, who had accepted him as king on the condition that he respect their possessions and rights.

Children of Louis and Adelahide
A2......Ermentrude b 870 Paris
A3......Karl (Charles) "Le Simple" b 17 Sep 879 d 7 Oct 929 Peronne

Child of Louis and Ansgarde
A4......Ermengarde b 882 Poitieu m Cte Rainulf II de POTIEU

GENERATION C

Note: Giselbert was Count of Massgau

Child of Giselbert and Bertswinde
E4......Giselbert II b abt 800

GENERATION D

Note: Giselbert was Count of Massgau and Ermengarde was duchess of Moselle and granddaughter of Ludwig (Louis) "le Pieux" CAROLING

Children of Giselbert and Ermengarde
E5......Renaud de ROUCY b 840
E6......Regnier b 846 d abt 918 Meersen, LImberg.

Note: Charles was king of France (893-922), whose authority came to be accepted by Lorraine and who settled the Northmen in Normandy but who became the first Carolingian ruler of the western kingdom to lose his crown.

The posthumous son of Louis II the Stammerer, Charles was too young to assume the throne on the death of his half-brother, Carloman, in 884 or that of his cousin, Charles the Fat, in 888. On Jan. 28, 893, however, he was crowned king by Fulk, archbishop of Reims; and, although he renounced his rights after civil war in 897, the death of King Eudes in the following year brought him general recognition as king.

Charles was strongly under the influence of Robert, brother of the dead Eudes. It was Robert's victory against the Northmen at Chartres in 911 which paved the way for the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte later that year, by which Charles ceded territory, in the area later known as Normandy, to the Viking leader Rollo and his men; in return, Rollo became a Christian and Charles's vassal. The Normans who had such an impact on Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries were the final product of this settlement. In 911 also, the magnates of Lorraine (Lotharingia) accepted the authority of Charles on the death of the last Carolingian king of the East Franks, Louis the Child. Charles's preoccupation with Lotharingian affairs and councillors alienated the nobles of Neustria, however, and in 922 they elected Robert king. Charles killed Robert in battle in 923 but was soon taken prisoner by Herbert, count of Vermandois, who used him for his own gain against Rudolf, Robert's son-in-law and the new king.

Child of Karl and Frederuna
A5......Ermentrude b 908 d 948

Children of Karl and Eadigifu
A6......Rorica de Laon dob unknown
Note: Rorico became Bishop of Laon
A7......Louis IV b 10 Sep 920 Laon d 10 Sep 954 Reims
A8......Charles b 925 Courcy

GENERATION E

Note: Regnier was Count of Hainault and Duke of Lorraine. Hersent was duchess of Moselle and granddaughter of Ludwig (Louis) "le Pieux" CAROLING and Ermentrude was the daughter of Louis the stammerer and great granddaughter of Charlemagne.

Child of Regnier and Hersent
E7......Regnier II b 889 Lorraine

Child of Regnier and Ermentrude
E8......Kunigunde b abt 891 Aachen d after 923

Children of Regnier and Alberade
E9......Symphorienne b 906 Lorraine
E10....Alberade b 911 Hainault m Ct Isaac de CAMBRAI before 934

Note: Louis was king of France from 936 to 954 who spent most of his reign struggling against his powerful vassal Hugh the Great de Vemandois.

When Louis's father, Charles III the Simple, was imprisoned in 923, his mother, Eadgifu, daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Elder, took Louis to England. (Hence his nickname - d'Outre Mer" - which means from overseas) He was recalled to France in 936 and crowned on June 19 at Laon by Artand, archbishop of Reims, who became Louis's chief supporter against Hugh the Great. Louis proved not to be the puppet monarch that Hugh had anticipated; he even moved from Paris to Laon to avoid Hugh's influence. When Hugh and Herbert of Vermandois seized Reims and attacked Laon in 940, Louis valiantly defended his city; but because of Louis's earlier interference in Lorraine the German king, Otto I, sent aid to the rebels. Louis appeared to be totally defeated in 941, but he made peace with Otto in November 942 at Vise on the Meuse, and Hugh and he were reconciled after Herbert, Hugh's chief supporter, died in 943.

In 945, while intervening in Norman politics, Louis was captured and handed over to Hugh, who imprisoned him for a year. On his release, Louis closely allied himself with Otto to retake Reims in 946. In 949 Louis again received control of Laon, and Hugh, excommunicated by French and German synods and by the Pope, made a peace in 951 that lasted until Louis's death.

Children of Louis and Gerbega
A9......Alberada b 930 Lorraine d 13 Mar 972 m Renaud de ROUCY 945
A10....Henri b 932 d 932
A11....Wiltrude b 937 Lorraine
A12....Lothair b 941 d 2 Mar 985 . Emma of ITALY
A13....Mahaut b 943 Laon d 27 Jan 981 m King Conrad I de BOURGOGNE
A14....Charles b 953 Laon d 21 May 994 Kerker, Orleans

GENERATION F

Child of Herbastus and Unknown
Y2......Wevie b 948 Crepon

Child of Gilbert and Irmgarde
Y4......Reignier "Longneck" b 850 Hainaut d 915

Child of Berenger and Symphorienne
E11......Robert I b 924 Lomme d 981

Child of Charle and Adelais
A15......Otto b 970 d abt 1010

Children of Charles and Adelaide
A16......Gerberga b 975 Lorraine d 1017
A17......Ludwig b 991 Thuringia

GENERATION G

Child of Osbern and Wevie
Y5......Osbern b 975 Longueville

Child of Reignier and Hersinde
Y6......Gilbert b 885 Rheims d 2 Oct 939 Andernach, Prussia

Child of Gerald and unknown
F2......Gerald b 965 Longueville

Child of Robert and Ermengarde
E12......Albert I b 975 Lower Lorraine

Child of Otto and unknown
A18......Ermengarde b 975 Lower Lorraine d 1012

GENERATION H

The Warenne coat of arms

Child of William and Torta
W1......Ranulph Hugh b abt 988 d 1055