Lineage: Clovis the Riparian to Charlemagne
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Ancestors of Crouches and Nances are in bold type. Each numbered
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would be the child of the main person listed in line 17. Numbers don't always
start at 1.
- 1. Clovis the Riparian, Frankish King of Cologne, liv. 420, kinsman
of Clovis I.
- 2, Childebert, King of Cologne, liv. 450
- 3. Siegbert, the Lame, King of Cologne; murdered 509, at the
instigation of a kinsman, Clovis I, King of the Salic Franks, by his own
son.
- 4. Cloderic the Parricide, King
of Cologne, murdered 509, by agents of his kinsman, Clovis I. Cloderic m.
a kinswoman of St. Clothilde, the Burgundian Queen of Clovis I. Children
included:
- 5A: Blithilde m. Ansbertus (73-5),
the Gallo-Roman Senator
- 5B. Munderic of Vitry-en-Perthois, very young in 509, when his
father was murdered, revolted against Thierry I, who killed him; m. Arthemia,
sister of Sacerdos, the Gallo-Roman Archbishop of Lyons, 542-559. Two sons
were:
- 6A. St. Gondulfus, Bishop of Tongres, 599;
- 6B. Bodegisel, m. Palatina, dau. of Gallus Magnus,
Bishop of Troyes, ca. 562.
- 7. Bodegisel II, m. Oda, a Suevian. (He appears to have
been Governor of Aquitaine, and was murdered at Carthage returning from
an Embassy to Constantinople, 588).
- 8. Saint Arnulf, b. ca. 13 Aug. 582, d. 16 Aug. 640, Mayor of
the Palace; Bishop of Metz, 612; m. about 596, Dode (Clothilde).
- 9. Duke Ansgise, b. 602, d. 685,
Mayor of the Palace to Siegbert, 632, son of Dagobert; m. before 639, St.
Begga, d. 694, dau. of Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the Palace in
Austrasia, d. 694, and his wife, Itta, dau. of Arnoldus, Bishop
of Metz, and niece of St. Modoald, Bishop of Treves, sons, it is said,
of Ansbertus, the Senator (73-5).
- 10. Pepin of Heristal, Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia, d. 714;
by concubine, Aupais, he was father of Charles Martel.
- 11. Charles Martel, b. 689, d. 741,
Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia, victor over the Saracens at Poitiers,
732; m. (1) Rotrou (14B-11), d. 724, dau. of Leutwinus,
d. 713 a.k.a St. Lievin, Bishop of Treves.
- 12. Pepin the Short, b. 714, d. 768, Mayor of the Palace; deposed
the last of the Faineant (Merovingian) kings and became himself the first
king of the Franks of the second race, 751-768; m. Bertha, d. 783, dau.
of Count Canbert of Laon.
- 13. Charlemagne (14B-13), b. 2 Apr. 747,
d. 28 Jan. 813/4, King of France, 768-814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor, 25
Dec. 800; m. ca. 771, Hildegarde (75-5), b.
ca. 758, d. 30 Apr. 783, dau. of Count Geroud of Swabia.
Quoted from "Genealogy of the Nances in Cornwall" by Martin L.
"Pete" Nance, 1970.
who quoted from Mr. Frederick Lewis Weis who states: "The Compiler
purposely has not had his work copyrighted, so that any descendant or scholar
may use freely whatever he desires".
Mr. Harold King Bowen,428 Vista Avenue, Pasadena, California, has compiled
and copyrighted "The Book of Adam" which includes the genealogy
of the Bible and its connecting link to most of the royal families found
in this section of the NANCE REGISTER.
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