 0879 - 0929 (50 years)
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| Name |
CAROLINGIAN Charles |
| Birth |
17 Sep 0879 |
Péronne, Somme, Picardie, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
07 Oct 0929 |
Murdered in Tower of Peronne, Somme, France |
| Notes |
- Charles III "le Simple" (17 Sep 879 posthumously - 07 Oct 929 Péronne).[4]
bur. monastère de Saint-Fursy, Péronne.[5]
Biography
Charles "the Straightforward," of Carolingian dynasty was,"the third and posthumous son of Louis the Stammerer by his second wife, Adelaide of Paris," (Wikipedia, 2011).
He styled himself, "rex francorum" and later "rex franciæ." ... But his reign was not successful. According to Floddard, he was captured and imprisoned in 923. Thietmar of Merseburg, claims that Heinrich I King of Germany secured his release from prison at the end of his life.[6]
Charles had 11 children with two wives and other unidentified mistress(es), (Cawley, 2006).
His second wife Eadgifu of Wessex, fled to England in 923 but returned to France in 936, where she was the Abbess of Notre Dame de Laon until 951, when she married Heribert III "le vieux" de Vermandois, Comte d'Omois.(Cawley, 2006).[7][1]
Titles
28 Jan 893 Reims: King of the West Franks (coronation).[8]
01 Nov 911: King of Lotharingia.[9]
Parents
Father: Louis II "le Begue", King of the West Franks
Mother: Adelais
Marriage
m.1 (01/08 Apr 907) Frederuna. Issue:[10]
1. ERMENTRUDE ([908/16]-). [m (before [934]) GOTTFRIED Graf im Jülichgau, son of Graf GERHARD [Matfride] & his wife Oda [Ottonen] (-26 Mar after 949).]
2. FREDERUNA ([908/16]-).
3. ADELAIS ([908/16]-). [m [920/24]) RAOUL [I] Comte de Gouy, son of HUCBERT Comte [d'Ostrevant] & his wife Heilwig [of Friulia] (-926).]
4. GISELA ([908/16]-). m ([912]) as his third wife, ROLLO of Normandy, later known as ROBERT I Comte [de Normandie], son of [RAGNVALD "the Wise" Jarl of Möre in Norway & his wife Ragnhild] ([846]-[928]).
5. ROTRUDE ([908/16]-).
6. HILDEGARDE ([908/16]-).
m.2 Eadgifu of Wessex (902/5 -26 Sep after 951; bur. Abbaye de Saint-Médard de Soissons), Abbess of Notre Dame de Laon.[11][1] Issue: 1.[12]
7. Louis (10 Sep 920/10 Sep 921 - 10 Sep 954 Reims; bur Reims, Abbaye de Saint-Rémi), succeeded in 936 as Louis IV "d’Outremer," King of the Franks.
Mistress(es)
Mistress(es) UNKNOWN. Issue:[13]
8. ARNULF.
9. DROGO.
10. RORICO (-20 Dec 976, bur Laon Saint-Vincent). Elected Bishop of Laon 949.
11. ALPAIS . m ERLEBOLD Comte de Castres, son of --- (-killed in battle 921).
Sources
↑ 1.0 1.1 William of Malmsbury calls her "Edgiva."[1]
According to Floddard, Eadgifu remarried to Heribert III "le Vieux" de Vermandois, Comte d'Omois in 951.[2][3];
See also: Wikipedia: Eadgifu of Wessex citing Dunbabin, (1999).
Flodoard of Reims. Flodoardi Chronicon (Reims : Regnier, 1855) Recorded death in 929 at Peronne.
Settipani, Christian. La Préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Villeneuve d’Ascq, 1993. Page 321 for Charles III; page 229 for Heribert III of Vermandois.
Thietmar of Merseburg
Cawley, C. (2006). Medieval Lands v.4. fmg.ac.[14]
Wikipedia: Charles the Simple
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| Person ID |
I58134 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Father |
CAROLINGIAN Louis, b. 01 Nov 0846, France d. 10 Apr 0879, Compiègne, Oise, France (Age 32 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
BOURGOGNE Ansgarde, b. Abt 0840, Aix La Chapelle, Austrasia d. 0879, Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France (Age 39 years) |
| Relationship |
Stepchild |
| Marriage |
Abt Mar 0862 |
| Family ID |
F25993 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Father |
CAROLINGIAN Louis, b. 01 Nov 0846, France d. 10 Apr 0879, Compiègne, Oise, France (Age 32 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
PARIS Adelaid, b. Abt 0855, Vermandois, Normandy, France d. 10 Nov 0901, église abbatiale Saint-Corneille, Compiègne (Age 46 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
0875 |
| Family ID |
F25931 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
WESSEX Eadgofi, b. Aft 0902, Wessex, England d. Aft 26 Sep 0951, Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France (Age > 48 years) |
| Marriage |
07 Oct 0919 |
| Children |
| | 1. CAROLINGIAN Ermentrude, b. Abt 0908, France d. Abt 0948 (Age 40 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: Stepchild] |
| | 2. CAROLINGIAN Louis, b. 10 Sep 0920, Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France d. 10 Sep 0954, Rheims, Champagne-Ardenne, France (Age 34 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F26060 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
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