Reading from wikipedia, you will discover that this house produces the more unpopular Angevins who started as counts of Anjou in France and would later moved to England and called themselves "Plantagenets", eventually divide into the House of York and House of Lancaster and fight for the right to rule England in what we now popularly called "Wars of the Roses".
From Leo's site the first proven ancestor is one Hugues du Perche, who married Béatrix de Mâcon 8th generation direct descendant of Charlemagne.
Beatrix's descent :
From Leo's site the first proven ancestor is one Hugues du Perche, who married Béatrix de Mâcon 8th generation direct descendant of Charlemagne.
Beatrix's descent :
- Charlemagne, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 800-814 - Hildegardis
- Louis I 'the Pious', Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 814-840 - Irmingard|Ermengard
- Lothar I, Holy Roman Emperor (823-855), King of Lotharingia - Irmgard de Tours
- Irmingard|Irmgard - Giselbert, Count in Maasgau
- Reginar I, Duke of Lorraine, Count in Hainault - Alberade
- Giselbert, Duke of Lorraine 928-939 - Gerberga von Sachsen
- Alverade de Lorraine - Ragenold|Renaud, Comte de Roucy
- Ermentrud|Irmgard de Roucy - Aubry II, Comte de Mâcon et Salins
- Béatrix de Mâcon - Hugues du Perche
The house would bear the titles of :
- King of England
- King of France (claim)
- King of the Romans (titular)
- Lord of Ireland
- Prince of Wales
- Duke of Aquitaine
- Duke of Normandy
- Duke of Brittany
- Count of Anjou
- Count of Maine
- Count of Nantes
- Count of Poitou
- Lord of Cyprus
Bayeee!!!
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