This week should be great… because that’s the theme! It could be someone many generations back (like a great-great-great-great-great-
Looking over both Dale’s and my family trees, there is one line that stretches farther than any other. It is on Dale’s mother’s side of the family and stretches back to Dale’s 35th-great-grandfather, Charlemagne – as in “King of the Franks” and “Holy Roman Emperor”.
I think there’s a chance this is mostly fiction, but on the other hand I do know that many people can legitimately trace their ancestry to Charlemagne so it’s not out of the question.
Here’s the lineage. This is fakey copy-paste genealogy and certainly not up to any of my personal standards. I did do some fishing around on WikiTree and the line from Charlemagne down to Joseph Vail looks pretty close.
Solomon Vail deserves some research, he was purportedly a Revolutionary War patriot.
So…for what it’s worth…
- Charlemagne
- Louise, Emperor of France
- Ermengarde De Tours
- Ermengarde Do Lorraine
- Count Regnier de Hainaut I
- Count Regnier de Hainaut II
- Count Regnier de Hainaut III
- Count Rainier de Hainault IV
- Beatrix of Hainault
- Alice of Roucy
- Margaret of Montdidier
- Adeliza of Claremont
- Alice de Clare
- Joliana de Vere
- Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk
- Mary Bigod
- Ranulph Fitz Ranulph
- Ralph Fitz Randulp
- Ranulph Fitz Ralph
- John Fitz Ranulph
- Randall Fitz John
- Sir John Fitz Randall
- Sir Ralph Fitz Randall
- Sir John Fitz Randolph
- John Fitz Randolph
- Christopher Fitz Randolph
- Edward Fitz Randolph
- Nathan fitz Randolph – emigrated to America
- John Fitz Randolph
- Martha Fitz Randolph
- Joseph Vail
- Solomon Vail
- Isaac Vail
- James William Vail
- Ella Rachel Vail
- Lucy Gladys James
- Frances Joan Cogburn
- Dale
