_Pepin II Mayor of Palace_________
_Charles Martel Mayor of Palace_|_Alpaida _________________________
_Pepin III K of the Franks_____|
| | _Liutwin Count & Bishop of Treves_
| |_Rotrude _______________________|_UNKNOWN _________________________
_Charlemagne HRE___________|
| | _Martin of Laon___________________
| | _Charibert C of Laon____________|_Bertrada ________________________
| |_Bertrada of Laon______________|
| | __________________________________
| |________________________________|__________________________________
_Louis I "the Pious" HRE_|
| | __________________________________
| | ________________________________|__________________________________
| | _Gerold C in Vinzgau___________|
| | | | __________________________________
| | | |________________________________|__________________________________
| |_Hildegarde the Alemannian_|
| | _Gotfrid D of Alemannia___________
| | _Nebi Huoching D of Alemannia___|_UNKNOWN _________________________
| |_Imma of Alemannia_____________|
| | __________________________________
| |________________________________|__________________________________
|
|--Lothar I HRE
|
| __________________________________
| _Sigramine C of Hasbaigne_______|__________________________________
| _Gunderland XII C of Hasbaigne_|
| | | _Charles Martel Mayor of Palace___
| | |_Landrada of Austrasia__________|_Rotrude _________________________
| _Ingram C of Hasbaigne_____|
| | | __________________________________
| | | ________________________________|__________________________________
| | |_______________________________|
| | | __________________________________
| | |________________________________|__________________________________
|_Ermengarde of Hasbaigne_|
| __________________________________
| ________________________________|__________________________________
| _______________________________|
| | | __________________________________
| | |________________________________|__________________________________
|___________________________|
| __________________________________
| ________________________________|__________________________________
|_______________________________|
| __________________________________
|________________________________|__________________________________
See the notes on Lothar's father, LOUIS THE PIOUS, for an overview of the
events leading up to Lothar's succession to the title of Emporer. He is
also known as King of Italy as he spent most of the decade from 831 to
841 there. The main reason for this was that his father had banished
him there. There was constant conflict between the two of them. Lothar
used Italy primarily as a political and military base for his activities in
the north. From the time of the Treaty of Verdun in 843 until his death
in 855, he ruled the "Middle Kingdom" which stretched from the North
Sea to Rome. Although holding the title of Emporer, he had no authority
over the lands of his brother LOUIS THE GERMAN to the east or his other
brother, CHARLES THE BALD to the west. When Lothar died in 855, his
kingdom was divided between LOUIS and CHARLES. His children became
rulers of small portions of his realm. LOUIS II, though nominally his
father's successor as Emporer, was in actual fact merely King of Italy.
LOTHAR became King of Lorraine. Charles became the first King of
Provence.