Carolingian dynasty

Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800. He united most of Western and Central Europe and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier. Charlemagne's reign was marked by political and social changes that had lasting influence on Europe throughout the Middle Ages.

Frankish military and political leader (c. 688–741)

King of the Franks

King of West Francia from 843 to 877 and Carolingian Emperor from 875 to 877

King of the Franks from 751 to 768

King of the Franks

Frankish noble family founded by Charles Martel

Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887)

King of West Francia

Irish Catholic philosopher and theologian (c. 800 – c. 877)

King of West Francia from 877 to 879

King of France

King of West Francia from 936 to 954

King of West Francia from 979 to 987

King of the Franks (r. 768–771)

King of West Francia from 879 to 884

King of West Francia from 954 to 986

King of Bavaria from 876 to 879

Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia (710-754)

Frankish bishop

Frankish queen

queen consort of Wessex and countess of Flanders

Frankish prince, son of Charlemagne

oldest daughter of King Henry of Saxony, consort of Giselbert of Lorraine and Louis IV of France

Frankish queen

Carolingian empress and queen of the Franks

second son of Charlemagne

Nithard (c. 795–844), a Frankish historian, was the son of Charlemagne's daughter Bertha. His father was Angilbert.

Holy Roman empress

Queen of Western Francia from 965 to 986

Saint Richardis (), also known as Richgard, Richardis of Swabia and Richarde de Souabe in French ( 840 – 18 September, between 894 and 896 AD), was empress of the Carolingian Empire as the wife of Charles the Fat. She was renowned for her piety and was the first abbess of Andlau. Repudiated by her husband, Richardis later became a Christian model of devotion and just rule. She was canonised in 1049.

Carolingian saint

Queen of the West Franks from 877 to 879

Emma of Altdorf, also known as Hemma ( – 31 January 876), a member of the Elder House of Welf, was Queen consort of East Francia by marriage to King Louis the German, from 843 until her death.

Queen consort of France

Duke of Lotharingia

9th-century Count of Vermandois

Frankish Queen

Patriarch of Aquileia and saint

The Pippinids and the Arnulfings were two Frankish aristocratic families from Austrasia during the Merovingian period. They dominated the office of mayor of the palace after 687 and eventually supplanted the Merovingians as kings in 751, founding the Carolingian dynasty.

-896

Engelberga (or Angilberga, died between 896 and 901) was the wife of Emperor Louis II and thus Carolingian empress to his death on 12 August 875. As empress, she exerted a powerful influence over her husband.

second wife of Charlemagne, one of four daughters of Desiderius, king of the Lombards

Frankish noble, daughter of Louis the Pious

Queen of Burgundy

Saxon queen

Frederuna (or Frederonne, Fridarun; or ; 887–917) was the queen consort of France by marriage to King Charles III of France.

Legendary 10th-century French princess

Queen of Germany, wife of Arnulf I

Teutberga (also spelled Theutberga; died 875) was a Frankish noblewoman and queen consort of Lothair II of Lotharingia. A member of the Bosonid dynasty, she became the central figure in one of the most politically charged marriage disputes of the 9th century. Her struggle to maintain her marriage and royal status against Lothair's efforts to annul the union became a defining case in medieval Church authority over marriage and annulment.

Advisor to Charlemagne

French duke

noble family

daughter of Charlemagne (c. 780 - after 824)

mistress of Lothair II of Lotharingia

illegitimate son of Frankish emperor Charlemagne by the concubine Regina, bishop of Metz

10th-century Margravine of Tuscany

Theodrada (ca. 784 – 844/853) was a daughter of Charlemagne (742–814) from his marriage to Fastrada. She became Abbess of the monastery of Argenteuil.

Frankish noble

abbot of Saint-Quentin, son of Charlemagne