Events
Date of Birth: summer 953.
Place of Birth: Laon.
The date and place are given by Settipani (p. 336). The date is given by Glocker (pp. 284-285).
Date of Death: 12 June 991.
Place of Death: Orléans (in prison).
The date and place are given by Cawley.
Date of Burial: 1001.
Place of Burial: Maastricht, St Servatius.
The date and place are given by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: Louis IV “d’Outremer”, king of the Franks.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:37), by Hlawitschka, by Glocker (pp. 187, 284-285), by Settipani (p. 331), and by Baldwin.
Mother: Gerberga of Germany.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:37), by Hlawitschka, by Glocker (p. 187, 284-285), by Settipani (p. 331), and by Baldwin.
(possible) Spouse: a daughter of Heribert, count of Troyes.
This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Glocker (pp. 284-285). (Père Anselme (2:785) gives Charles’s first wife as “Bonne d’Ardennes.”)
Spouse: Adélaïde (died after 991).
This relationship is given by Baldwin, by Settipani (p. 338), by Bouchard (p. 102), and by Glocker (pp. 285). Glocker calls her "T[ochter] eines unfreien Vasallen Hugo Capets und 'uxor de militari ordini sibi impar'".
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Otto (about 970 - 13 June, 1013 or 1014), duke of Lower Lotharingia.
Ermengarde married Albert (I), count of Namur.
Gerberga married Lambert (I), count of Leuven.
Adelais.
Louis.
Charles.
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Baldwin, Stewart. “Gerberga” in The Henry Project. (2011).
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Cawley, Charles. “CHARLES” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).
Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).
Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).