Eupedia Home > Europe > History > Families related to Clovis & Charlemagne List of families descending from Clovis and Charlemagne Here is a list of noble families who can trace their ancestry back to Charlemagne (747-814), and by this also to Charles Martel (686-741), Pepin of Herstal (635-714), Pepin of Landen (580-640), Clovis I (466-511), Childeric I (437-481), Merowig (411-458), and some older, mythical ancestors like Pharamond (370-430), Sunno (358-401 ?), Priarios of Toxandria (324-396 ?) or Malaric I of Toxandria (295-360 ?). Only families in the first 20 generations of descendants of Charlemagne are listed. Note that there are no more descendants in direct male line. From the 5th generation after Charlemagne already, only 3 direct male branches subsisted : the Count of Vermandois, the King of Lorraine, and the King of France (Louis IV 'd'Outremer'). The Counts of Vermandois remained the longest, in direct male line until Herbert IV (1028-1080). The line of Louis IV d'Outremer continued through his son, Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, whose daughters married into the houses of Louvain (also descended from Charlemagne via the Counts of Hainault), and Namur (ditto, via the Counts of Luxembourg). The longest running male lines thus naturally remained in the Southern Netherlands, the homeland of the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns (=>see History of the Franks). N.B. : Families with the prefix "of" and the title in brackets indicate the rulers of a major, sovereign or semi-sovereign state.

Given the numerous migrations and border changes in European history, the country classification follows the present-day borders. Advertisements Belgium & Luxembourg van der Aa

van Aalst

d'Antoing

d'Arenberg

d'Argenteau

d'Arschot de Schoonhoven

de Barbancon

de Beaufort

of Brabant (Duke)

van Brugge

de Croÿ

de Dampierre

van Diest

de Dongelbergh

de Durbuy

van Egmont [d'Egmont]

of Flanders (Count)

de Gavre

de Ghistelles

de Glymes

de Grandpré

of Hainault (Count)

van Hamale

van Hoorne [de Hornes]

de Henin-Lietard

de Lalaing

de La Marck

de Ligne

of Limburg (Duke)

de Louvain [van Leuven]

of Luxembourg (Count, Duke)

de Merode

de Mons

of Namur (Count)

d'Orbais

d'Oultremont

de Roeulx

de Spontin

de Tournai

de Trazegnies

de Walcourt

de Wavrin France d'Albon

of Alençon (Count)

d'Alsace

d'Amboise

d'Anduze

of Anjou (Count)

of Angoulême (Count)

of Aquitaine (Duke)

d'Arles

d'Aspremont

of Aumale (Count)

of Auvergne (Count)

d'Avesnes

of Bar (Count)

de Bar-le-Duc

de Bar-sur-Seine

de Baux

de Beaugency

de Beaujeu

de Besalu

of Blois (Count)

of Boulogne (Count)

de Boulogne et de Lens

of Bourbon (Duke)

de Brienne

of Burgundy (Duke)

of Bretagne (Duke)

de Breteuil

of Champagne (Count)

de Champlitte

de Château-Landon

de Châtillon

de Chiny

de Clermont

of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis (Count)

de Commercy

de Coucy

de Courtenay

Damas

de Dammartin

de Dinan

de Donzy

of Dreux (Count)

de Dreux, du Perche, de Braine-sur-Vesle

de la Flèche

of Foix (Count)

de Forcalquier

de Fougères

of France (King)

de Genève

of Gevaudan (Viscount)

de Grandpré

de Grandpré et de Porcien

de Grandson

de Grandson et de Belmont

of Guise (Count, Duke)

d'Hiérges

de Joinville

de L'Aigle

de Lens

of Limoges (Viscount)

of Lorraine (Duke)

of Lower-Lorraine (Duke)

of Upper-Lorraine (Duke)

de Lorraine-Vaudemont

von Lunéville

de Macon

of Maine (Count)

de Mareuil

de Marle

de Marolles

de Mayenne

de Melgueil

de Meschines

of Metz (Count)

of Meulan (Count)

de Montdidier

de Mousson

de Montfaucon

de Montmirail

de Montmorency

de Montreuil

de Montpellier

de Nangis

of Nevers (Count)

of Normandy (Duke)

d'Omelaz

of Orange (Count, Prince)

de Penthièvre

of Perche (Count)

of Poitiers (Count)

of Poitou (Count)

of Ponthieu (Count)

de Porhoët

of Provence (Count)

de Preuilly

du Puiset

of Rethel (Count)

de Roucy

of Roussillon and Cerdagne (Count)

de Rozoy

de Rumigny

de Saint Gilles

de Saint-Omer

of Saint-Pol (Count)

de Sancerre

of Savoy (Count)

de Sémur

de Sémur-en-Brionnais

de Sully

de Tingrie

de Thouars

of Toulouse (Count)

de Tréguier et de Guincamp

de Tréguier et de Lamballe

de Treguier, de Penthièvre, d'Avaugour

de Troyes

de Turenne

de Vaudémont

of Vendôme (Count, Duke)

de Ventadour

of Verdun & Ardennes (Count)

of Vermandois (Count)

de Vénisy

de Vienne

de Vignory

de Vitry-Rethel Germany & Austria von Ammensleben

von Andechs

von Andechs und von Plassenburg

von Arnsberg

von Assel

of Austria & Steiermark (Duke)

of Baden & Verona (Count)

von Ballenstedt

of Bavaria (Duke)

von Bentheim

von Berg-Schelklingen

von Blieskastel

von Bregenz

of Brandenburg (Marquess)

of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Duke)

von Calvelage

of Carinthia (Count)

von Dale

von Diessen

von Enham

von Esch

von Franconia

von Gleissberg

von Groitzsch

von Hachberg

von Hallermund

von Henneberg

von Hohenstaufen

von Kirburg

von Kirburg & Schmitburg

von Kleef

von Lechsgemünd

von Limburg

von Loccum

von Magdeburg

von Mainz

of Mecklenburg

von Mochental

von Mömpelgard

von Mörsperg

von Montfort

von Montfort in Bregenz

von Nassau

von Oenningen

von Österreich

von Orlamünde

von Ortenburg

von Pettendorf

von Pfirt

von Putelendorf

von Ravensberg

von Regensburg

am Rhein (Pfalzgraf)

von Rheineck

von Rheinfelden

von Saarwerden

von Salm

von Salm und Langenstein

of Saxony (Duke)

of Schlesien (Duke)

von Stade

of Schwaben (Duke)

von Sponheim

von Staufen

von Sulzbach

von Tangermunde

von Tecklenburg

von Tübingen-Giessen

of Tyrol (Count)

von Thüringen (Count)

von Valkenstein

von Veldenz

von Veltheim

von Vianden

von Vohburg

von Wassel

von Wassenberg

von Wettin

von Windberg

von Wolfratshausen

von Zähringen Netherlands van Breda

van Gelre

of Holland (Count) UK & Ireland d'Aubigny

d'Avranches

de Beaumont

de Brus

de Caen

de Camville

de Clare

de Conches

(de) Courtenay

de Dunstanville

of England (King)

d'Eu

FitzAkaris

FitzBardolph

FitzEdith

FitzHenry

FitzHerbert

FitzPatrick

FitzRobert

van Ghent [de Gant]

of Gloucester (Earl)

of Gwynedd

of Huntingdon (Earl)

de Lancaster

Longespee

de Marmion

de Meschines

de Monmouth

of Normandy (Duke)

of Northumberland

de Neufbourg [de Newburgh]

(de) Percy

de Pierrepont

de Quincy

de Roumare

de Reviers

de Ridelisford

de St.Liz [de Senlis]

of Scotland (King)

de Tosny

de Vere

de Warenne Spain & Portugal Alvarez de Tovar

of Aragón (King)

of Barcelona (Count)

of Castile (King)

of Castile and Léon (King)

of Léon (King)

of Navarre (King)

of Portugal (King)

de Urgel Italy of Apulia (Duke)

d'Este

de Monferrato

of Tuscany (Duke)

of Sicily

del Vasto

di Ventimiglia Scandinavia Brosa

of Denmark (King)

Eriksdatter

Folkason Snivel

Minnesköld

Snare

Ulfsson Other countries of Antioch (Prince)

of Armenia (King)

of Bohemia (King)

of Hungary

Jaroslawitsch

of Jerusalem (King)

of Kiev (Grand Duke)

Komnena

Krzywousty

of Poland (King)

of Polock

Rostislawitsch

of Tripolis (Count)

of Turow

of Wladimir-Wolhynsk

