Hugh capet related to charlemagne biography

Was hugh capet a good king

By this connection he was the fifth great-grandson of Charlemagne through Pepin of Italy.

Clovis united the franks under his rule by killing off his competition.

His ancestry can be confidently extended back another six generations to St. Arnulph (Arnoul) of Metz, who lived and died more than years before Charlemagne.

Gaul, or France, had been ruled for many years by Romans and by Germans, but Hugh Capet was a Frenchman, ruling French people, the first king of France.

Clovis united the franks under his rule by killing off his competition..

Introduction

Settipani (1983, 1993, 2000, 2014) is the main authority on the genealogy of the Merovingian Kings and Carolingian Kings of France, and the pedigree shown here in Lineage 1, is from his work.

Settipani's research was preceded by Kelley (1947) and others, who rely on a ninth-century genealogy of Charlemagne to research a possible connection between Charlemagne and the Gallo-Roman rulers of Gaul, known as the Syagrii, who preceeded the Merovingian Kings.

Settipani (2000) also investigated this connection, and his revision of it, with which Kelly concurs, is the basis for the hypothetical pedigree shown here in Lineage 2.

Unfortuntately, there are few contemporary documents against which to confirm these lineages.

The main source is the History of the Franks, written in the late 6th century by Gregory of Tours. Also, there is a mid-7th century document known as the Chronicle of Fredegar that deals with the genealogy of the Merovingian kings, but