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The Ascending lineage of Joschua Beres to Emperor

Charlemagne, King of the Lombards and King of the


Franks via Mathieu Amiot, a first son of Qubec
Compiled by Joschua Beres, February 2015
I am greatly indebted to BAnQ (Bibliothque et archives nationales du Qubec), PRDH
(Programme de recherche en dmographie historique), Francogenes and the Dictionnaire
genealogique de nos Origines, by Denis Beauregard.

Saint Leo III crowning Charlemagne emperor


Miniature depicting Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne emperor on Christmas Day, 800; from Chroniques
de France ou de Saint-Denis, vol. 1, second quarter of the 14th century.
The following is an excerpt from The Great Man Charlemagne: His Life and Times by The Danbury Press:

The kingdom ruled over by Charlemagnes father, Pepin the Short, extended from the
North Sea to the Pyrenees and from Brittany to the Danube River. After the deaths of his
father and his brother, Carloman, Charlemagne became sole ruler of a territory which
included most of western and central Europe.
In this vast area lived a variety of peoples. The original Franks occupied the northwest
part of the kingdom, with the Visigoths, Burgundians and German tribes as their
neighbors.
The Visigoths, originally from near the Black Sea, had migrated to Italy in the fifth
century and later settled in what is today southern France and Spain. In Charlemagnes
day, their descendants occupied the area north of the Pyrenees along the Atlantic coast.
The Burgundians had in the fifth century settled in the central region bordering on the
Rhone River. They had their own laws and even their own king, although they were in
reality subject to Frankish political power. The German population, which had many
times proved rebellious under Charlemagnes ancestors, inhabited the eastern part of the
kingdom along the Danube Valley as far as present-day Hungary.
Beyond the borders of the Frankish kingdom, three main powers shared what had once

been the Roman empire. In Italy a complex situation existed. A Germanic people called
the Lombards occupied most of the northern part of the peninsula, from the Alps to the
Ionian Sea. The southern part of the peninsula remained in the hands of the dying
Byzantine empire, whose capital was Constantinople. In between lay an area which
included the exarchate of Ravenna, the Pentapolis, the duchy of Perugia and the duchy of
Rome, in which the interests of the Lombards, the Byzantines and the papacy in Rome
overlapped.
Outside Italy, Byzantium still controlled an empire which included what is today
Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and the islands of the Aegean Sea. To the
north its borders were constantly menaced by the Slavs while to the east the Moslems, the
great rising power of the seventh century, threatened further encroachments. The
Moslems were in control of northern Africa and the Iberian peninsula. More serious for
the economy of western Europe, they had closed off the western Mediterranean to
Frankish trade.
Religious divisions roughly corresponded to the political outline of seventh century
Europe. In Italy and the Frankish kingdom, Christianity directed from Rome prevailed. In
the Greek-speaking Byzantine empire, the Christian population followed the authority of
the patriarch of Constantinople. The rest of the Mediterranean world was Islamic.
Once he inherited the throne, Charlemagne began to increase the dominion of his already
large realm. He pushed the Moslems back from the Pyrenees and occupied the Spanish
cities of Pamplona and Barcelona. Most of the Italian peninsula, with the exception of
Venice, Istria and certain regions in the extreme south, became a Frankish possession. In
the east the vast Avar territory was absorbed into the empire and the Saxons inhabiting
the northern reaches of the Elbe were also defeated. In the west
Brittany maintained its independence, although Charlemagnes
descendants considered it part of their possessions.
The political control which Charlemagne exerted over his
conquered territories was sufficient to revive the concept of a
western Roman empire, over which the Frankish king was
crowned emperor in 800.
Charlemagne, the second Carolingian king, brought a new light
to the dark stage of Europe. He inherited a kingdom of illiterate
farmers and forged it into an empire militarily strong and
culturally advanced.
Although responsible for a renaissance of learning,
Charlemagne was not a scholar (he did not learn to read until late in life). In fact, the
main achievements of his reign the alliance with the church, the conquest of pagan
neighbors, the reform of government machinery and the improvement of scholarship
were all begun in some form by his father. Despite his lack of originality, Charlemagne
had the strength and foresight to carry through what his father had begun. Within the
borders of the empire there developed a climate favorable to education and the arts which
had much to do with the enthusiasm of the ruler himself.
Charlemagne, as the spiritual servant and temporal protector of the pope in Rome,

regarded the adoption of Christianity by the pagans as a mission. He forced every one of
his subjects to convert or be deported, and to those who rebelled he was merciless.
Contemporary historians have seen a strain of inhumanity in this brand of militant
Christianity. Yet by these methods Europe emerged more united than before, and while
after Charlemagnes death the empire would split into smaller kingdoms, their rulers
would recognize common bonds which were a legacy of the Carolingian king.
Charlemagnes reforms had a direct and lasting influence on the cultural and political
emergence of western Europe.
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Joschua Kristofer Harvey-Beres [1987] b. in Texas
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Bonnie Lee Ballard [1955] b. in New York (birth mother)
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Irene Genevieve Schryver [1930-1997] b. in New York (Bonnies mother)
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Myrtle Rose Perry [1906-1984] b. in New York (Irenes mother)
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Joseph Perry [c. 1850-1911] b. in New York (Myrtles father)
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Emilie Croteau-Vincent [1827-1870] b. in Qubec (Josephs mother)
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Joseph Croteau [1804-1864] b. in Qubec (Emilies father)
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Louis Croteau [1774-1831] b. in Qubec (Josephs father)
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Marie Madeline Demers [1746-1817] b. in Qubec (Louis mother)
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Marie-Francoise Charlotte Huard [1717 - 1765] b. in Qubec (Maries mother)
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Jean Baptiste Huard [1672 - 1751] b. in Qubec (Marie-Francoises father)
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Anne Marie Amiot [1654-1737] b. in Qubec (Jeans mother)
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Mathieu Amiot [1628-1688] b. in France (Anne's father)


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Anne Couvent [1601-1675] b. in France (Mathieu's mother)
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Antoinette de Longueval [1580-1640] b. in France (Anne's mother)
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Louise de Joyeuse [c. 1565- c. 1615] b. in France (Antoinette's mother)
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Lord Jean de Joyeuse [c. 1540- ] b. in France (Louise's father)
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Lord Franois de Joyeuse [1525-1597] b. in France (Jean's father)
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Lady Marguerite de Barbanon [c. 1486- ] b. in France (Franois' mother)
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Lord Franois de Barbanon [c. 1470- ] b. in France (Marguerite's father)


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Lady Jeanne de Sarrebruche [1436-1492] b. in France (Franois' mother)
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Countess Jeanne de Pierrepont [1406-1459] b. in France (Jeannes mother)
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Count Jean IV de Pierrepont [c. 1375-1415] b. in France (Jeannes father)
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Lady Blanche de Coucy [1358-1410] b. in France (Jean VI's mother)
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Lady Jeanne d'Harcourt [1343-1390] b. in France (Blanche's mother)
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Countess Blanche de Ponthieu [1322-1387] b. in France (Jeanne's mother)
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Countess Catherine d'Artois [1296-1368] b. in France (Blanche's mother)
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Lord Philippe I d'Artois [1269-1298] b. in France (Catherines father)
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Count Robert II d'Artois [1250-1302] b. in France (Philippe Is father)
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Count Robert I d'Artois [1216-1250] b. in France (Robert IIs father)
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King Louis VIII of France [1187-1226] b. in France (Robert Is father)
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King Philippe II of France [1165-1223] b. in France (Louis VIIIs father)
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King Louis VII of France [1120-1180] b. in France (Philippe IIs father)
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King Louis VI of France [1081-1137] b. in France (Louis VIIs father)
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King Philippe I of France [1052-1108] b. in France (Louis VIs father)
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King Henri I of France [1008-1060] b. in France (Philippe Is father)
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King Robert II of France [ 972-1031] b. in France (Henri Is father)
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King Hugh Capet of the Franks [c. 941-966] b. in France (Robert Is father)
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Duke Hugues Capet of the Franks [898-956] b. in France (Hughs father)
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Countess Batrice de Vermandois [c. 880-931] b. in France (Hugues mother)
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Count Herbert I of Vermandois [c. 848/850-907] b. in France (Batrices father)
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Count Pepin of Vermandois [818-c.854] b. in France (Herbert Is father)
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King Bernard of Italy [797-818] b. in France (Pepins father)


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King Pepin of Italy [c. 770/73-810] b. in France (Bernards father)
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Emperor Charlemagne [c.742/747/748-814] b. in Germany-Belgium (Pepins father)

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