We have summarised fifteen interesting snippets about theġ.She is descended from two of the sons of Charlemagne who succeeded him in lands and power – Pepin, King of the Lombards and Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor.Ģ. Mid-eighteenth century with Mary Garritt, the wife of a Land Surveyor of Her maternal line (mother’s mother’s mother and so on) peters out in the Of the branches of her family tree can be traced back for many generations, although Otherwise, we are just peasants…Ĭourse, genealogy and history are practically the same thing. ![]() ( Figure from the History Database of the Global Environment, published by Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency 2007)įor most of us, however, this is merely a statistical quirk, and, unless we are lucky with our family tree research, we run into the sand in the mid-sixteenth century, before which time Parish Registers did not have to be kept.If we have linked into a family that was prominent by that time, we can boast of being descended from Charlemagne, from William the Conqueror, from Robert the Bruce or Hugh Capet. There are around 38 generations between Charlemagne and the present, which means, if there were no intermarriage between your ancestors, you would have 2 to the power of 38 individual progenitors in 800 AD – that is some 274 billion (yes, billion) people at a time when the world population has been estimated at around 240m. Statistically, if your grandparents were born in Europe before the First World War, you are almost certainly descended from Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned on Christmas Day in the year 800. The Conqueror, St Louis IX, the Emperor Maximilian I, and the Catholic Kings, Illustrious figures, and can trace her ancestry back to Charlemagne, Hugh Capet, William ![]() April, 2016, HM Queen Elizabeth II turns 90.
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