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Merfyn
"Frych" ap GWRIAD, "The Freckled", King of Powys, son of Gwriad ap
Elidir and Nest verch Cadell, was born about 764 in Wales. He died
in 843 in the Battle of Cyfeiliog, Ketell, Wales. He married Esyllt verch
CYNAN.
"Merfyn Frych (the Freckled), Gwynedd, reigned abt. 825-844 son of Gwriad
of Man. After the reign of Hywel 814-825. Merfyn came to power following
the death of Hywel ap Caradog, and his accession marked the end of a period
of turmoil in Gwynedd's affairs and the start of a new dynast. Merfyn was
the son of Gwriad, the king of the Isle of Man, through whom he could claim
descent from Llywarch Hen. His alliance with Powys meant that the two kingdoms
presented a powerful front to the Saxons in the east. Merfyn thus
established a stable, if uneasy peace. Merfyn Frych died in 844 passing
his reign to his son Rhodri Mawr who would become king of all North Wales."
http://www.users.qwest.net/~butchmatt/EinionapCuneddaNotes.html
"Merfyn Frych (Merfyn the Freckled 817-843)-King of Powis and the Isle
of Man. Also King of Gwynedd or North Wales by right of his wife Essyllt.
He was slain about 838-844 in battle with Berthrwyd, King of Mercia. He
married Essyllt, daughter and heiress of Prince Cynan Tindaethwy who reigned
from 755 to 817"
http://www.bigenealogy.com/surnames/davis/page97.htm
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Esyllt
verch CYNAN, daughter of Cynan ap Rhodri, was born about 770
in Caer Seiont, Carnarvonshire, Wales.
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Meurig
ap DYFNWALLON, King of Ceredigion, son of Dyfnwallon ap Arthen,was
born about 780 in Ceredigion, Wales.
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Ivar
HALFDANSSON, EARL, son of Halfdan Sveidasson, was born after
770 in Oppland, Norway. He married EYSTEINSDATTER about 824 in Oppland,
Norway.
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EYSTEINSDATTER,
daughter
of Eystein Hognasson was born about 785 in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag,
Norway.
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Rognvald
OLAFSSON, son of Olaf Gudrodsson, King of Jutland and Vestfold,was
born about 816 in Vestfold, Norway. He died in 850.
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Kenneth
I "Macalpin", King Of SCOTLAND, son of Alpin, King of Scotland,was
born about 810 in Scotland. He died on 6 Feb 859 in Iona, Argyllshire,
Scotland. He was buried in Iona, Argyllshire, Scotland.
"Kenneth MacAlpin earns his place in Scottish history as the first king
of the united Scots of Dalriada and the Picts, making him virtual king
of Scotland north of a line between the Forth and the Clyde. By the year
843, he had created a semblance of unity among the warring societies of
the Picts, Scots, Britons and Anglos after he had defeated the Picts in
battle. MacAlpin created his capital at Forteviot, in Pictish territory;
he then moved his religious center to Dunkeld, on the River Tay, in present-day
Perthshire, to where he transferred the remains of St. Columba from Iona.
At roughly the same time that the people of Wales were separated from the
invading Saxons by the artificial boundary of Offa's Dyke, MacAlpin was
creating a kingdom of Scotland. MacAlpin's successes in part were due to
the threat coming from the raids of the Vikings, many of whom became settlers.
The seizure of control over all Norway in 872 by Harald Fairhair caused
many of the previously independent Jarls to look for new lands to establish
themselves.
One result of the coming of the Norsemen and Danes with their command of the sea, was that the kingdom of Scotland became surrounded and isolated; the old link with Ireland was broken; the country was now cut off from southern England and the Continent; thus the kingdom of Alba established by MacAlpin was thrown in upon itself and united against a common foe. According to the Huntingdon Chronicle, he "was the first of the Scots to obtain the monarchy of the whole of Albania, which is now called Scotia."
http://www.britannia.com/bios/kenneth1.html
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Rutpert
(Robert) WORMSGAU, COUNT, son of Thuringbert, was born about
770. He died on 12 Jul 807. He married Theoderata (Tiedrada) of WORMSGAU.
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Theoderata
(Tiedrada) of WORMSGAU was born about 770. She died in 789.
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Bernard,
King of ITALY, son of Pepin, King of Italy, was born in 797
in Vermandois, Austrasia. He died on 17 Apr 818 in Milan, Italy. He married
Cunigunde.
"Bernard was crowned King of Italy by Charlemagne, his grandfather, whe
Louis the Pious was made co-Emperor in 813. When Charlemagne died the next
year, Louis became Emperor. In 817, right after Lothar was made co-Emperor,
Bernard revolted but surrendered before Louis's army. He was sentenced
to death, but was spared and only blinded. The next year he died of these
wounds."
http://www.ghg.net/shetler/oldimp/310.html
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Cunigunde,
was
born about 797 in France. She died about 835.
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Bruno,
Duke of East SAXONY was born about 800 in Saxony, Germany.
"The early beginnings of the town of Brunswick are only described by a
legend: There it is said that two Saxon dukes, the brothers Bruno and Dankward,
have founded Brunswick in 861. The legend tells that Duke Dankward had
built Dankward Castle and Duke Bruno founded a so-called "Wiek" on the
right bank of the Oker river, which was called Brunswiek, today named Altewiek."
http://home.ica.net/~claus/braun1.htm
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Billing
Of SAXONY was born about 780 in Saxony. He married Aeda.
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Aeda
was
born about 784 in Saxony.
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Wolpert
von RINGELHEIM was born about 800 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover,
Germany. He married Alburgis.
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Alburgis
was
born about 800 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany.
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Bernard
I, Count of POITIERS, son of Renaud, Count of Poitiers,was born about
815 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine. He died in 844. He married Bilichilde
D’ ANJOU.
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Bilichilde
D’ ANJOU, daughter of Roricon, Count of Maine, and Blichilde,was born
about 817 in Anjou, France.
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Charles
II "The Bald", Emperor of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, son of Louis I, Emperor
of the Holy Roman Empire, and Judith, Princess of Bavaria,was born 13 Jun
823 in Frankfurt, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia. He died on 6 Oct 877 in Brides
les Bains, Bourgogne. He was buried in St. Denis, France. He married Ermentrude
(Irmtrud), Countess of ORLEANS, QUEEN OF THE WEST FRANKS on 13 Dec 842
in Crecy, France.
"King of France (i.e., Francia Occidentalis, the West Frankish kingdom)
from 843 to 877 and Western emperor from 875 to 877. (He is reckoned as
Charles II both of the Holy Roman Empire and of France.) Son of the
emperor Louis I. (778-840) the Pious and his second wife, Judith, Charles
was the unwitting cause of violent discord when, in 829, he was granted
lands by his father; Louis's action precipitated a series of civil wars,
lasting until 838, in which the three sons of his first marriage, Lothair
I. (795-855), Louis II the German, and Pippin I, strove to maintain or
to increase the rights that they had been guaranteed by the succession
settlement of 817, the Ordinatio imperii. Pippin died in 838, but after
the death of Louis I in 840 the civil war resumed and continued until Louis
the German joined with Charles to force Lothair to accept the Treaty of
Verdun in 843, by which Charles received all the lands west of a line roughly
following the Scheldt, Meuse, and Saône rivers, the eastern mountains
of the Massif Central, and the lower reaches of the Rhône River,
and Louis the German and Lothair received respectively the lands of the
East Franks (Germany) and the middle kingdom, lying between the other two.
Until 864 Charles's political situation was precarious because few vassals
were loyal to him. His lands suffered from raids by Northmen, who left
only after receiving bribes; he was defeated by the Bretons and, in 858,
faced an invasion by Louis the German. Yet he succeeded in gaining control
of Aquitaine after the capture of Pippin's son in 864; and, by the Treaty
of Meersen (870) with Louis the German, he received western Lorraine.
When Lothair's eldest son, the emperor Louis II, died in 875, Charles went
to Italy and was crowned emperor on December 25 by Pope John VIII. In 876,
after the death of Louis the German, Charles invaded Louis's possessions
but was defeated at Andernach by Louis's son, Louis III the Younger. Charles's
death in the next year occurred when another son of Louis the German, Carloman,
was marching against him and when his own major vassals were in revolt.
During Charles's reign some of the splendours of the Carolingian renaissance were revived, and his close collaboration with the church enhanced his prestige and authority.
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/EmperorCharles-I
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Ermentrude
(Irmtrud), Countess of ORLEANS, QUEEN OF THE WEST FRANKS,
daughter
of Eudes, Count of Orleans, and Ingeltrude, was born on 27 Sep 830
in Orléans, Neustria. She died on 6 Oct 869. She was buried in St.
Denis, France.
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HARDOUIN,
Countwas
born about 815.
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Ethelwulf,
King Of WESSEX, son of Egbert, King of Wessex, and Redburh,was born
about 806 in Wessex, England. He died on 13 Jan 857 in England. He was
buried in Stamridge. He married Osburh in about 830.
"He was made ruler of the subkingdom of Kent (including Sussex, Essex and
Surrey) in 825, and when his father died in 839, he became King of all
Wessex. He was engaged in warfare with the Danes during most of his reign,
and was defeated by them in a naval battle in 842. He had his revenge against
them in a great victory at Oakley in 851. He made a pilgrimage to Rome
with his youngest son, Alfred in 856, and married his second wife in Paris
on the way home, in 857. His son Ethelbald quarreled with him over this
marriage so Aethelwulf gave him Wessex proper as a settlement retaining
only his old subkingdom of Kent."
http://www.flemingmultimedia.com/Genealogy/EthelwulfKingofWessex.html
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Osburh,
daughter
of Oslac, Chief Butler of Wessex, was born about 810 in Wessex,
England. She died in 846.
"Asser writing in 893 provides the key to this particular ethnic manipulation
when writing about King Alfred's mother's side of the family. Alfred understood
his maternal grandfather Oslac not only to trace his descent from the ancient
Jutish kings of Wight, but also to have been of Gothic'ancestry: "Qui Oslac
Gothus erat natione; ortus enim erat de Gothis et Iutis" (which Oslac was
a Goth by race; for his origin was from Goths and Jutes) (Asser ch. 2).
Asser ch. 23 later tells of the interest King Alfred's mother Osburh took
in traditional poetry, including presumably that containing stories which
reflected well upon her own ancestry . It was Osburh who challenged Alfred
and his brothers to memorize poemata Saxonica, vernacular poems, which
probably recounted the kind of dynastic traditions which she felt to be
of special value. Perhaps Osburh chose this method of cultivating among
her West Saxon sons an appreciation for her own distinguished ancestors,
that is, her own Jutish/Gothic heritage. There are, in fact, only two Anglo-Saxons
whom we know 'by name' valued these old legends in traditional poetry:
King Alfred and his mother Osburh."
http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/5/Davis1.html
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Ethelred
"Mucil", Eald of the GAINAI was born about 825 in Mercia, England.
He married Eadburh FADBURN.
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Eadburh
FADBURN was born about 830 in Mercia, England.
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Torquat
(Tortulfe) de RENNES was born about 800 in Rennes, Anjou, France.
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Erik
REFILSSON, son of Refil Bjornsson, was born about 814 in Sweden.
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Ziemowit,
Prince of POLAND, son of Piast, Duke of Poland, was born about
835 in Poznan, Poland. He died in 892.
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Borijov
I, Duke of BOHEMIA, son of Hostivit, Duke of Bohemia, and Miloslava,was
born about 842 in Praha, Czechoslovakia. He died about 894 in Tetin, Horovice,
Czechoslovakia. He married Lidmila ze PSOVA.
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Lidmila
"The Saint" ze PSOVA, daughter of Slavibor, Zupan of Psov, was
born about 853 in Psov, Melnik, Czechoslovakia. She died on 16 Sep 921.
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Lothaire
I, Emperor of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, KING OF ITALY, son of Louis I,
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and Ermengarde, Princess of Hesbaye,was
born in 795 in Altdorf, Bavaria. He died on 29 Sep 855 in Pruem, Rheinland,
Prussia. He was buried in St. Sauveur, France. He married Ermengarde, Countess
Of TOURS on 15 Oct 821 in Thionville, Moselle, France.
"Lothaire I was Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire from 840 until his death.
His brothers took away his authority as king of Germany in 843, but gave
him control as Holy Roman Emperor of northern Italy and Lorraine."
http://www.smokykin.com/ged/f001/f98/a0019866.htm
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Ermengarde,
Countess Of TOURS, daughter of Hugues II, Count of Upper Alsace and
Tours, and Ava, was born about 800 in Alsace, France. She died on
20 Mar 851. She was buried in Abbaye D'Erstein, Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
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Louis
I "The Pious", Emperor of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, is printed as #27-11.
He married Judith.
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Judith,
Princess of Bavaria, daughter of Guelph I, Duke of Bavaria, and Hedwig,was
born about 800 in Altdorf, Bavaria. She died on 19 Apr 843 in Tours, France.
"When his wife died, he remarried and had a son, Charles, in 823. In all of his wills he had made his three sons Pepin of Aquitaine, Louis of Bavaria, and Lothar his co-Emperor, successors. When Charles was born, he tried desperately to include him. In 829, he dropped Lothar's imperial title and sent him off to Italy. The next year the three brother united and attacked, forcing their father to abdicate, Lothar to be given back his imperial title, and Judith to be sent off to a nunnery. By the next year, Louis had re-gained his power, brought back his wife, dropped Lothar completely from the will, replaced him with Charles, and refused to allow Lothar to ever return to court without permission. In 833, the three brothers gained support from Pope Gregory IV and many of the Emperor Louis's own generals. Lothar made a settlement: Louis and Charles were imprisoned, Judith sent in exile to Italy under eye of Lothar, and Louis of Bavaria and Pepin were to gain territory (formerly under imperial authority). The next year, however, Pepin and Louis of Bavaria released their father and brother from jail, Judith was back, and peace was made."
http://www.ghg.net/shetler/oldimp/299.html
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Oilliol,
King of LEINSTER, son of Dunnlaing, King of Leinster,was born about
830 in Leinster, Ireland. He died in 869.
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