The Continental Descent Six sovereign crowns — the Franks, Italy, France, Germany, Kiev and Sweden — reaching Aynsley Norman Damery Every rung documented in the family GEDCOM · the lines converge on one heiress, Isabel de Vermandois, and descend through the de Vere Earls of Oxford Charlemagne King of the Franks; Emperor, 800 748 – 814 · 36× great-grandfather a second road reaches him via the de Clares (British Isles sheet) Pepin of Italy King of Italy · the Carolingians 777 – 810 · 35× great-grandfather Bernard of Italy → the Counts of Vermandois · about 8 gen. Adelaide de Vermandois heiress of the Counts of Vermandois d. 1122 · 26× great-grandmother Henry the Fowler King of Germany (East Francia) · the Ottonians c.876 – 936 · 31× great-grandfather his son Otto the Great, first HR Emperor, is a collateral Hedwig of Saxony m. Hugh the Great, Duke of the Franks d. 965 · 30× great-grandmother Hugh Capet first Capetian King of France, 987 c.939 – 996 · 29× great-grandfather Robert II of France King of France · the Capetians 972 – 1031 · 28× great-grandfather Henry I of France King of France c.1008 – 1060 · 27× great-grandfather Igor of Kiev Prince of Kiev · the Rurikids d. 945 · 31× great-grandfather his queen St Olga of Kiev, a saint (31×) Vladimir the Great Grand Prince of Kiev c.958 – 1015 · 29× great-grandfather Yaroslav the Wise Grand Prince of Kiev 978 – 1054 · 28× great-grandfather m. Ingegerd, dau. of Olof Skötkonung, King of Sweden (29×) Anne of Kiev Queen of France c.1030 – 1075 · 27× great-grandmother Henry I of France married Anne of Kiev Hugh Magnus de Vermandois Count of Vermandois · their son 1057 – 1101 · 26× great-grandfather married Isabel de Vermandois where the Continental lines meet c.1085 – 1131 · 25× great-grandmother Robert de Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester · her son 1104 – 1168 · 24× great-grandfather Robert de Beaumont 3rd Earl of Leicester d. 1190 · 23× great-grandfather Margaret de Beaumont m. Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester d. 1235 · 22× great-grandmother the de Vere Earls of Oxford and Hawise de Quincy · about 10 gen. Jane Vere of the de Vere Earls of Oxford; m. Henry Hunt fl. 1573 · 11× great-grandmother the Hunts of Curragh → Lane → White → Jones → Damery · about 12 gen. Aynsley Norman Damery Cork, Ireland living Generations are counted along the Vermandois road drawn here; Charlemagne in truth arrives by hundreds of roads (the shortest, 35×, runs via the Percy Earls) — a cross-check, not a correction.Damery Family History · damery.family · one of two gateway-trees (Continental) — each named rung is a documented link in the descent
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