The Continental Descent How the crowns of the Franks, Italy, France, Kyivan Rus and Sweden reach Aynsley Norman Damery Every link documented in the family GEDCOM · the lines converge on one heiress, Isabel de Vermandois, and descend through the de Vere Earls of Oxford Bernard of Italy → the Counts of Vermandois· about 7 generations ·marriedthe de Vere Earls of Oxford and Hawise de Quincy· about 10 generations ·then the Hunts of Curragh → Lane → White → Jones → Damery · about 12 generations Charlemagne King of the Franks; Emperor, 800 748 – 814 · my 36× great-grandfather above him, Pepin the Short — 37× Pepin of Italy King of Italy — son of Charlemagne 777 – 810 · my 35× great-grandfather Adelaide de Vermandois Heiress of the Counts of Vermandois d. 1122 · my 26× great-grandmother Igor of Kiev Prince of Kiev — the Rurikids d. 945 · my 31× great-grandfather Vladimir the Great Grand Prince of Kiev c.958 – 1015 · my 29× great-grandfather via Sviatoslav I Yaroslav the Wise Grand Prince of Kiev 978 – 1054 · my 28× great-grandfather m. Ingegerd, dau. of Olof Skötkonung, King of Sweden (my 29×) Anne of Kiev Queen of France c.1030 – 1075 · my 27× great-grandmother m. Henry I of France — grandson of Hugh Capet (my 29×) Hugh Magnus de Vermandois Count of Vermandois 1057 – 1101 · my 26× great-grandfather Isabel de Vermandois Where the Continental crowns meet c.1085 – 1131 · my 25× great-grandmother Robert de Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester — her son 1104 – 1168 · my 24× great-grandfather Robert de Beaumont 3rd Earl of Leicester d. 1190 · my 23× great-grandfather Margaret de Beaumont m. Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester d. 1235 · my 22× great-grandmother Jane Vere of the de Vere Earls of Oxford; m. Henry Hunt of Gosfield fl. 1573 · my 15× great-grandmother Aynsley Norman Damery Cork, Ireland living · Damery Family History · damery.family · one of two gateway-trees (Continental) — each named rung is a documented link in the descent Charlemagne is reached twice: here by the Vermandois, and again by a second road, through the de Clares and Flanders (see the British Isles sheet).
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Charlemagne to Margaret de Clare, rung by rung

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