_Robert I DE BOURBON-PARME ___________________________+
| (1848 - 1907) m 1869
_Elias DE BOURBON-PARME ________________|
| (1880 - 1959) m 1903 |
| |_Maria Pia della Grazia DE BOURBON DES DEUX- SICILES _
| (1849 - 1882) m 1869
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|--Carlo Luigi DE BOURBON-PARME
| (1905 - 1912)
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|_Maria Anna ERZHERZÖGIN VON ÖSTERREICH _|
m 1903 |
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_Konrad I DE LUXEMBOURG _|
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|--Ermisende DE LUXEMBOURG
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| _Guillaume VIII "Peter" DE AQUITAINE _+
| | m 1051
|_Clemence DE POITOU _____|
(1058 - 1129) |
|_Ermesinde of LONGWY _________________
(.... - 1058) m 1051
_Amadeo VII *the Red* DE SAVOIE _+
| (1359 - 1391) m 1376
_Amadeo VIII DE SAVOIE _|
| (1383 - 1450) m 1401 |
| |_Bonne DE BERRY _________________+
| (1365 - 1435) m 1376
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|--Marie DE SAVOIE
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| _Philip *le Hardi* DE VALOIS ____+
| | (1341 - 1404) m 1369
|_Marie DE BOURGOGNE ____|
(1386 - 1422) m 1401 |
|_Margarethe DE FLANDERS-BRABANT _+
(1350 - 1404) m 1369
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_Herbert IV DE VERMANDOIS ___|
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|--Adelaide DE VERMANDOIS
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|_Adela (De Valois) DE VEXIN _|
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_Tytill EAST ANGLES _+
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_Eni EAST ANGLES ____|
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|--Aethelhere EAST ANGLES
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_Clovis I "The Great" of FRANKS _+
| (0481 - 0511) m 0492
_Chlothar Lothar I "The Old" FRANKS _|
| (0511 - 0561) |
| |_St. Chlotilde BURGUNDY _________+
| (0475 - 0548) m 0492
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|--Sigebert I of Metz FRANKS
| (0535 - 0579)
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|_Ingonde of FRANKS __________________|
(0499 - ....) |
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[290]
Sigebert inherited the kingdom of Metz on the death of his father,
Lothar, in 561. Sigebert defeated the army of the Huns in 562 when
they invaded Gaul, and peace was made between the two forces. At the
same time, Sigebert's brother, Chilperic, King of Soissons, invaded
Metz and took several cities rightly belonging to Sigebert. This
started civil war. Sigebert marched to the city of Soissons, exiled
Theudebert, Chilperic's son who was in command of the city, and then
beat Chilperic in battle. Sigebert married Brunhild, the Arian
daughter of King Anthanagild of the Visigoths, who was converted to
Catholicism.
n 566, the Huns again invaded Metz, and this time were successful over
Sigebert. The next year, Sigebert's brother King Charibert of Paris
died and his kingdom was divided between the three living sons of
Lothar. Right away, Chilperic invaded Sigebert's share. He attacked
Tours and left his son, Clovis, in command. Clovis was driven out of
Tours by Sigebert, and then driven out of Bordeaux by Sigulf, one of
Sigebert's generals. Civil war then began between Sigebert and his
other brother, King Guntram of Burgundy, and, at the same time,
Theudebert (son of Chilperic, previously mentioned), invaded Metz and
destroyed many cities. In 574, Sigebert allied himself with Guntram
and planned to counter, the assault, but the shift in alliance was
sufficient to cause Chilperic to capitulate.
owever, the following year, Chilperic succeeded in winning back the
alliance of his brother Guntram, and another war was started with
Sigebert. Theudebert was beaten and killed in battle, Guntram AGAIN
switched alliances, and Chilperic AGAIN retreated. But, Sigebert was
assassinated, and his kingdom passed to his son Childebert II.
regory of Tours has some interesting remarks to make about these
affairs. Regarding the invasion by the Huns in 566, he writes:
Once again the Huns tried to invade Gaul. Sigebert marched agains them
with his army, taking with him a large force of brave warriors. Just
as they were about to join battle, the Huns, who were highly skilled in
necromancy, made a number of phantom figures dance before their eyes
and so beat them easily.
igebert's army fled from the battlefield. He himself was surrounded by
the Huns and made prisoner. However, he was cunning and astute and,
although he could not beat them in battle, he managed to suborn them
later on by bribery. He gave a great number of presents to their King
and made a treaty with him, with the result that there was peace
between the two peoples for the rest of his lifetime. This was greatly
to his credit, rather than something for him to be ahsamed of. The
King of the Huns was called the Khan. All the rulers of the Huns are
given this title.
[...]
A great prodigy appeared in Gaul at the fortress of Tauredunum, which
was situated on high ground above the River Rhone. (Les Evouettes, near
Chessel) Here a curious bellowing sound was heard for more than sixty
days: then the whole hillside was split open and separated from the
mountain nearest to it, and it fell into the river carrying with it
men, churches, property and houses. The banks of the river were
blocked and the water flowed backwards. This place was shut in by
mountains on both sides, for the stream flows there through narrow
defiles. The water then flooded the higher reaches and submerged and
carried away everything which was on its banks. A second time the
inhabitants were taken unawares, and as the accumulated water forced
its way through again, it drowned those who lived there, just as it had
done higher up, destroying their houses, killing their cattle, and
carrying away and overwhelming with its violent and unexpected
inundation everything which stood on its banks as far as the city of
Geneva. Many people maintained that the volume of water was so great
that it flowed right over the walls of Geneva: and this is doubtless
possible, for, as I have told you, at this spot the Rhone runs through
mountainous defiles and, once its course was blocked, there was nowhere
for it to turn on either side. It burst through the mountain which had
fallen into it and washed everything away.
hen all this had happened, thirty monks made their way to the spot
where the fortress had collapsed, dug into the earth beneath where the
landslide had occurred and found ther bronze and iron. While they were
busy at their task, they once more heard the bellowing of the mountain.
So strong was their lust for gain that they took no notice: and a part
of the hillside which had not previously collapsed, now fell on top of
them. It buried them completely and their dead bodies were never
recovered.
efore the great plague which ravaged Auvergne, (A.D. 571) prodigies
terrified the people of that region in the same way. On a number of
occasions three or four great shining lights appeared round the sun,
and these the country folk also called suns. 'Look!' they shouted.
'There are now three or four suns in the sky!'
nce, on the first day of October, the sun was in eclipse, so that less
than a quarter of it continued to shine, and the rest was so dark and
discoloured that you would have said that it was made of sackcloth.
Then a star, which some call a comet, appeared over the region for a
whole year, with a tail like a sword, and the whole sky seemed to burn
and many other portents were seen.
n one of the churches of Clermont-Ferrand, while early morning matins
were being celebrated on some feast day or other, a bird called a
crested lark flew in, spread its wings over all the lamps which were
shining and put them out so quickly that you would have thought that
someone had seized hold of them all at once and dropped them into a
pool of water. It then flew into the sacristy, under the curtain, and
tried to extinguish the candle there, but the vergers managed to catch
it and they killed it. In the same way, another bird put out the lamps
of Saint Andrew's church.
hen the plague finally began to rage, so many people were killed off
throughout the whole region and the dead bodies were so numerous that
it was not even possible to count them. There was such a shortage of
coffins and tombstones that ten or more bodies were buried in the same
grave. In Saint Peter's church alone on a single Sunday, three hundred
dead bodies were counted. Death came very quickly. An open sore like
a snake's bite appeared in the groin or the armpit, and the man who had
it soon died of its poison, breathing his last on the second or third
day. The virulence of the poison made the victim unconscious. [...]
Lyons, Bourges, Chalon-sur-Saone and Dijon were decimated by this
plague.
In 576] In that year lightning was observed to flicker across the sky,
just as we saw it before Lothar's death. [...] Sigibert sent troops to
besiege his brother in Tournai, planning to follow himself with all
speed. Saint Germanus, the Bishop, said to him: 'If you set out with
the intention of sparing your brother's life, you will return alive and
victorious. If you have any other plans in mind, you will die. That
is what God announced through the mouth of Solomon: 'Whoso diggeth a
pit for his brother shall fall therein.'' The King in his sinfulness
took no notice of Saint Germanus. He advanced to the royal villa of
Vitry and assembled the entire army around him. They raised him on a
shield and elected him as their king. Two young men who had be
suborned by Queen Fredegund then came up to Sigibert, carrying the
strong knives which are commonly called scramasaxes, and which they had
smeared with poison. They pretended that they had something to discuss
with him, but they struck him on both sides. He gave a loud cry and
fell to the ground. He died soon afterwards. His chamberlaina,
Charegisel was killed at the same time and Sigila, who had joined him
long before from the Goths, was seriously wounded. Later on Sigila was
captured by King Chilperic, burned by red-hot irons and died a cruel
death, for his body was torn limb from limb. Charegisel was frivolous
in his conduct and only serious when it came to personal gain. He
came from the most humble origins, but rose to high place by fawning on
the King. [...]
hilperic was in a desperate situation, not knowing whether he could
escape alive or would be killed instead. At this moment messengers
arrived to tell him that his brother was dead. He sallied forth from
Tournai with his wife and sons, dressed Sigibert's corpse and buried it
in the village of Lambres. Later on Sigibert was translated to the
church of Saint Medard at Soissons, which he had himself constructed,
and buried there by the side of his father, Lothar. He died in the
fourteenth year of his reign, when he was forty years old.
Twenty-eight years passed between the death of the older Theudebert and
the death of Sigibert. Sigibert died eighteen days after his nephew
Theudebert. After his death his son Chilldebert reigned in his place
_Eoppa WESSEX _______+
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_Eafa of KENT _______|
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|--Ealhmund in KENT
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_James WIMBISH ______|
| (1690 - 1769) |
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|--Mary WIMBISH
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[265] Married James Thacks