After writing my 11th ebook, it is much more fun to think that I am a bloodline descendant of Charlemagne and Emperor Flavius Theodosius of Rome | Timeline.

After writing my last book, it is much more fun to think that I am the 40th-great grandson of Charlemagne.  Carlomagno Carolus Magnus Karl der Große 'Charlemagne' Emperor's great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson is Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega, or 40th-great grandson. Total of 43 generations.

Nobody in my past was hugely famous, at least that I know of. After writing my 11th ebook, it is much more fun to think that I am a bloodline descendant of Charlemagne.

The Carolingian dynasty known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings, was a Frankish noble family named after Charlemagne, grandson of Mayor Charles Martel and a descendant of the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD. The dynasty consolidated its power in the 8th century, eventually making the offices of mayor of the palace and dux et princeps Francorum hereditary, and becoming the de facto rulers of the Franks as the real powers behind the Merovingian throne. In 751 the Merovingian dynasty which had ruled the Germanic Franks was overthrown with the consent of the Papacy and the aristocracy, and Pepin the Short, son of Martel, was crowned King of the Franks. The Carolingian dynasty reached its peak in 800 with the crowning of Charlemagne as the first Emperor of the Romans in the West in over three centuries. His death in 814 began an extended period of fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and decline that would eventually lead to the evolution of the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire.

The Story of Charlemagne and His Saxon Nemesis | Charlemagne | Timeline, https://youtu.be/6VUEgxrmP1w.

This is the story of the dramatic and violent life of the Middle Ages' most important emperor: Charlemagne. But, one man seemed to evade Charlemagne's grasp: Widukind. The Saxon's legendary leader boldly resisted conversion to Christianity in the face of the Holy Roman Emperor. How did Charlemagne finally defeat the "child of the forest"?

The greatest Carolingian monarch was Charlemagne, Pepin's son. Charlemagne was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome in 800. His empire, ostensibly a continuation of the Western Roman Empire, is referred to historiographically as the Carolingian Empire.

The Carolingian rulers did not give up the traditional Frankish (and Merovingian) practice of dividing inheritances among heirs, though the concept of the indivisibility of the Empire was also accepted. The Carolingians had the practice of making their sons' minor kings in the various regions (regna) of the Empire, which they would inherit on the death of their father, which Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious both did for their sons. Following the death of Emperor Louis the Pious in 840, his surviving adult sons, Lothair I and Louis the German, along with their adolescent brother Charles the Bald, fought a three-year civil war ending only with the Treaty of Verdun in 843, which divided the empire into three regna while according to imperial status and a nominal lordship to Lothair who, at 48, was the eldest. The Carolingians differed markedly from the Merovingians in that they disallowed inheritance to illegitimate offspring, possibly to prevent infighting among heirs and assure a limit to the division of the realm. In the late ninth century, however, the lack of suitable adults among the Carolingians necessitated the rise of Arnulf of Carinthia as the king of East Francia, a bastard child of a legitimate Carolingian king, Carloman of Bavaria, himself a son of the First King of the Eastern division of the Frankish kingdom, Louis the German.

43 generations from Charles the Great to Rafael Alberto "Magno" Vilagut-Vega, names: 1) Carlomagno Charles the Great Karl der Große `Charlemagne` Emperor (747-814) son 2) Pepin of Italy (777-810) son 3) Bernard of Italy (797-818) son 4) Pepin II Quentin de Vermandois, Comte de Senlis, Comte de Peronne & Comte de St. Quentin (c.817-after 850)son 5) Herbert I, Count of Vermandois (c. 848/850-907) daughter 6) Beatrice of Vermandois (c. 880-931) son 7) Hugh The Great (898-956 aged 58) son 8) Hugh Capet (939-996) son 9) Robert II King of France (c. 972-1031) daughter 10) Adela of France (1109-1079 aged 70) daughter 11) Matilda of Flanders (1031-1083 aged 52) son 12) Henry I of England King of England (1068-1135 aged 67) daughter 13) Mathilde l`Emperesse de la maison de Normandie (1102-1167 aged 65) son 14) King Henry II Plantagenêt of England (1133-1189 aged 56) daughter 15) Eleanor Plantagenêt of England Queen de Castilla (1161-1214 aged 53) daughter 16) Urraca of Castile Queen of Portugal (1187-1220 aged 33) son 17) King Afonso III de Bourgogne Rei de Portugal e do Algarve (1210-1279 aged 68) son 18) Martim Afonso Chichorro (1250-1313 aged 63) daughter 19) Maria Afonso Chichorro (c. 1295 - ) daughter 20) Maria Gonçalves Briteiros son 21) Dom João Lourenço da Cunha (c. 1345-c.1385 aged 40) son 22) João Álvares da Cunha (1371-1440) son 23) Rui Afonso de Melo (c. 1395-1477 aged 82) son 24) Rui de Melo da Cuhna (1455-1530 aged 75) son 25) Alférez Álvaro de Alfonso (1535-1602 aged 67) daughter 26) Isabel de Acuña y Berrio (1573-1622 aged 49) daughter 27) María Pereira Cardoso (1596-1636 aged 40) daughter 28) Juana Gómez-Bonilla ( - 1610) daughter 29) Ana Gómez Benito y Bonilla (1560-1633 aged 73) daughter 30) María de La Portilla Gomez Román (1589-1650 aged 61) daughter 31) Catalina Mora Salado y de la Portilla (1608-1670 aged 62) daughter 32) María Monterroso-García (1625-1695 aged 70) son 33) Andrés Arias-Monterroso (1685-1723 aged 38) son 34) Felipe Arias-Hidalgo (1685 - ) son 35) José Timoteo Arias-Jiménez (1740 - ) son 36) Luis Arias-Ugalde (1763-1814) son 37) Antonio Arias-Pérez (1789 - ) son 38) José María Arias-Zumbado (1814-c. 1870 aged 56) son 39) Manuel Arias-Ugalde (1834-c. 1890 aged 56) daughter 40) Manuela Arias-Camacho (1876-1959, aged 83) daughter 41) Angelica Rodriguez-Arias (1908-1928 aged 103) daughter 42) Nydia M. Vega-Rodriguez son 43) Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega.  

 

400 years before Charles the Great (747-814), Theodosius the Great (347 - 395) saves Rome from the Goths and unifies the empire for the last time, setting dangerous precedents in the process.

 

Emperor Flavius Theodosius's 53th-great grandson is Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega.  Theodosius I, by name Theodosius the Great, in full Flavius Theodosius, (born January 11, 347, Cauca, Gallaecia [now Coca, Spain]—died January 17, 395, Mediolanum [now Milan, Italy]), Roman emperor of the East (379–392) and then sole emperor of both East and West (392–395).   I am here to serve you in what you may occupy.

56 generations from  Roman emperor of the East (379–392) and then sole emperor of both East and West (392–395) to Rafael Alberto "Magno" Vilagut-Vega, names:

 

  

 

Emperor Flavius Theodosius of Rome I daughter Aelia Galla Placidia Empress of Roman E son Théodoric I King of the Visigoths daughter Ragnachildis der Franken son Alaric II King of the Visigoths son King Gesalec of the Visigoths son Athanagild I.K. N son Flavio O.T. Leovigildo son Recaredo I K.O. N son Aquilo I de Coimbra son Aquilo II N son Diego de Cantabria son Duke Pedro P.O. de Cantabria son Rey Alfonso I T.C. de Asturias son Fruela I Rey d`Asturia son Ramon Romaes C.D. y Santa Marta de Ortigueira son Rodrigo Romaes C. De Monterroso II son Remón II C.D. de Monterroso son Ramón Romaes son Mendo C.D. de Rausona son Froyla Méndez de Trastámara son Conde Rodrigo Froiláz son Froila Mendes de Trastâmara son Bermudo I Forjaz de Trastâmara son Forjaz Froila Vermuis de Traba de Trastámara son Pedro C.D. Froilaz daughter Estefanía Perez de Traba daughter Urraca Rodríguez son Gonçalo Rodrigues son Rui Gonçalves son Pedro Rodrigues son Gonçalo Pires son Gonçalo Gonçalves son Álvaro Gonçalves daughter Isabel Alvares daughter Beatriz Pessanha son Rui de Melo da Cuhna son Alférez Álvaro de Alfonso daughter Isabel de Acuña y Berrio daughter María Pereira Cardoso daughter Juana Gómez daughter Ana Gómez daughter María De La Portilla daughter Catalina Mora daughter María Monterroso son Andrés Arias son Felipe Arias son José T. Arias son Luis Arias son Antonio Arias son José M. Arias son Manuel Arias daughter Manuela Arias daughter Angelica Rodriguez-Arias daughter Nydia M. Vega-Rodriguez son Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega.

 

San Jose Costa Rica, Happy and Healthy, December 22, 2022. Related episode: The New Genealogy: long term genealogical research. The Lineage of the Portuguese Conquerors of the 16th-century. First edition in English December 15, 2022, http://felizysaludable.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-new-genealogy-long-term.html. 

 

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