Hincmar
Hincmar( 806 – 21 December 882), archbishop of Reims, was a Frankish jurist and theologian, as well as the friend, advisor and propagandist of Charles the Bald.
He belonged to a noble family of northern Francia.
Udo of Neustria
Udo was a 9th- century nobleman of East Francia, a son of Gebhard, Count of Lahngau, and older brother of Berengar I of Neustria.
He and his brother were afforded their position in the March of Neustria both by kinship to Adalard the Seneschal and the favour of Charles the Bald.
With his brothers, Berengar and Waldo, Abbot of St Maximin's, Trier, he took part in the 861 revolt of Carloman of Bavaria, possibly his cousin- in- law, against Louis the German.
The revolt was crushed, and the three brothers fled with their relative Adalard to the court of the West Frankish king, Charles the Bald, who granted them wardship of the march held against the Vikings while the march against the Bretons was granted to Robert the Strong.
Charles' patronage of the family provoked the jealousy of the Rorgonids, the most powerful family local to Neustria, which controlled the" ducatus Cenomannicus"( Maine).
In 865, they allied with Saloman of Brittany and attacked the brothers.
Charles, to attain peace, took the march back and gave it to Gauzfrid of Neustria, a Rorgonid.
A charter of 879 mentions Udo and his brothers taking part in the foundation of the college of Gemünden.
Evidently, the death of Louis the German in 876 had allowed them to return to the court of Carloman.
Udo left a son, Conrad, Duke of Thuringia, who was the founder of the Conradine dynasty and father of Conrad I of Germany.
One younger son, Rudolf, became Bishop of Würzburg, and another, Gebhard, became Duke of Lotharingia.
Richilde of Provence
Richilde of the Ardennes( or Richilde of Provence)( ca. 845 – 2 June 910, Kingdom of Lower Burgundy) was the second consort of Charles the Bald, King and Emperor of the Franks.
By her marriage, she became Queen of the West Franks, and then Empress of the Franks.
She also served as a regent.
Richilde was the daughter of Bivin of Gorze, Count of the Ardennes, and the sister of Boso of Provence( of the Bosonid dynasty).
Her aunt was Theutberga, the wife of Lothar II of Lotharingia.
Her marriage to Charles the Bald, in 870 after the death of his first wife, Ermentrude of Orléans, was intended to secure his rule in Lotharingia through her powerful family and her connection to Theutberga, the previous Queen consort.
She bore him five children, but only the eldest daughter, Rothilde, survived to adulthood.
Whenever Charles went to war, Richilde managed the realm, and acted as head of state after the death of Charles in 877.
Louis the Stammerer( son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans) died on 10 April 879 while his children were too young to rule on their own.
Richilde planned to place her brother Boso, Duke of Burgundy, on the throne.
However, she was accused of incest with her brother and the lords of the kingdom refused to subject themselves to her authority.
She then helped Boso to become King of Provence.
She attempted to assume a position of authority upon the death of Louis III in 882, and of Carloman II in 884; however, the empire was agitated and under threat by the Normans, and the grandees of the realm forced her to withdraw to Provence, then the realm of her nephew Louis the Blind, where she died on 2 June 910.
Kaya Alp
Kaya Alp was, according to Ottoman tradition, the son of Kızıl Buğa and the father of Suleyman Shah, who was, in turn, the grandfather of Ertuğrul, and the great grandfather of the Ottoman Empire founder, Osman I.
Charles the Bald
Charles ΙΙ the Bald (13 June 823 – 6 October 877) was the king of West Francia (843–877), king of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877).
After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis
the Pious, Charles succeeded, by the Treaty of Verdun (843), in acquiring the western third of the Carolingian Empire.
He was a grandson of Charlemagne and the youngest son of Louis the Pious by his second wife, Judith.
Gisela of France
Gisela( fl. 911) was a legendary French princess who was, according to legend, married to Rollo, duke of Normandy.
According to tradition, Rollo was betrothed to Gisela, daughter to the king of West Francia, Charles the Simple, after his conversion to Christianity upon his ascension as ruler of Normandy in 911.
The marriage and the existence of Gisela are not confirmed, supporting the mythical character of Gisela.
Some suggested that, if she really did exist, she may have been an illegitimate daughter of Charles.
A character named Gisla( presented as a daughter of Charles the Bald rather than his grandson Charles the Simple, and as the mother of Rollo's children) is portrayed in the TV series Vikings by Morgane Polanski.
Charles the Child
Charles the Child( Latin" Karolus puer", from the" Annales Bertiniani"; 847/848, Frankfurt am Main – 29 September 866, Buzançais) was the King of Aquitaine from October 855 until his death in 866.
He was the second son of Charles the Bald and brother of Louis the Stammerer.
The younger Charles was appointed by his father, who had previously ruled as King of Aquitaine himself from 838, as a sop to Aquitainian separatism.
The Aquitainians had previously rebelled against Charles the Bald, requesting from Louis the German that he send one of his sons to rule over them.
Louis had sent his second son, Louis the Younger, prompting Charles the Bald to release his rival claimant to Aquitaine, Pippin II.
Pippin succeeded in rallying the nobles to support himself and Charles the Bald against Louis the Younger, who was driven out.
By October, however, Pippin lost his popularity with the still- rebellious Aquitainians, prompting Charles the Bald to appoint Charles the Child as King.
Charles the Child was duly anointed at Limoges.
Within a year, he had been replaced by the Aquitainians with Pippin II.
These same then deposed Pippin and restored Charles the Child.
Pippin was captured in 864 and imprisoned at Senlis, at which point he disappears from history.
Unlike previous sub-kings of Aquitaine,( Louis the Pious, Pippin I, Pippin II), Charles the Child had no real authority at all.
Before 840, the kingdom had been ruled in person by an autonomous king; Charles the Bald, however, after his accession as King of Western Francia, attempted to maintain power in Aquitaine.
Consequently, Charles the Child, and his brother, Louis the Stammerer, did not rule in person, had no chancery, could issue no instruments; they were no longer empowered to bestow privileges, endow religious establishments, or dispose of royal property.
All the rights of the region were invested in Charles the Bald, in whose absence the nobles of the Kingdom gathered power.
Nonetheless, as Charles grew older, he began to exercise what little personal authority he could.
For example, in 862 he chose and married a wife against the will of his father.
The name of his wife is unknown, although she was apparently the widow of a count named Humbert.
Charles the Bald reasserted his power over his son in 863, forcing the younger Charles to put away his wife and be loyal to his father.
A year later, he was accidentally struck with a sword in the head by a member of his own hunting party in a mock combat, leading Ado of Vienne to say that" Charles was dishonoured(" dehonestatus") by having suffered it".
The blow left him mentally incapacitated until his resultant death in 866.
He died childless and was buried in Bourges.
Carloman, son of Charles the Bald
Carloman (848 – "c". 877) was the youngest son of Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, and his first wife, Ermentrude.
He was intended for an ecclesiastical career from an early age, but in 870 rebelled against his father and tried to claim a part of the kingdom as an inheritance.
Born in 848, Carloman was tonsured as a child in 854 in furtherance of his father's policy of preventing a partition of the kingdom (as had happened at Verdun in 843) by placing his younger sons in the church.
Carloman was tutored by Abbot Wulfad, a future archbishop.
In 860 Carloman was ordained a deacon and acquired the abbacy of Saint-Médard de Soissons.
In the following decade he acquired the abbacies of Saint-Amand d'Elnon, Saint-Riquier, Lobbes and Saint-Arnould de Metz.
In 865 Carloman's older brother and fellow ecclesiastic, Lothair the Lame, died and Carloman succeeded him in the abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre.
The next year (866), another brother, Charles the Child, whom Charles the Bald had made King of Aquitaine, died.
With these deaths, Carloman became second in line to the throne after the eldest brother, Louis the Stammerer.
Resenting being shunted into the church, and perhaps at heart a warrior, by 870 he had gathered an aristocratic following.
No specific names have come down to us of those who supported Carloman, although they appear to have been mostly from Lotharingia and Flanders.
Before his defiance of his father amounted to anything, he was arrested, tried and imprisoned at Senlis.
His abbacies were forfeited.
Pope Hadrian II unsuccessfully intervened to try to secure Carloman's release, but the latter escaped to Flanders, where he gathered a small army.
The bishops of the province of Reims then met under the leadership of Archbishop Hincmar at Compiègne in early 871.
They pronounced excommunication on all of Carloman's supporters in the province of Reims, with one dissenting voice—Bishop Hincmar of Laon, who was perhaps a supporter of Carloman himself.
In 873, Carloman was re-tried and blinded, but he avoided imprisonment by escaping to East Francia, where his uncle, King Louis the German, gave him protection.
He died there about 877.
Baldwin II, Margrave of Flanders
Baldwin II( 865 – 10 September 918) was the second margrave( or count) of Flanders, ruling from 879 to 918.
He was nicknamed the Bald(" Calvus") after his maternal grandfather, King Charles the Bald.
Berengar I of Neustria
Berengar I was a 9th- century nobleman of East Francia, a son of Gebhard, Count of Lahngau, and younger brother of Udo.
He and his brother were created Margraves of Neustria by Charles the Bald in 861.
He was possibly a Conradine, a relative for sure of Adalard the Seneschal, a Girardid.
Berengar was probably the namesake of Berengar II of Neustria, who was probably the son of Berengar I's successor, Henry of Franconia.
He is believed to be the same person as Bérenger I, Count of Ivois.
With his brothers, Udo and Waldo the Abbot, he took part in the 861 revolt of Carloman of Bavaria, possible his cousin- in- law, against Louis the German.
The revolt was crushed and the three brothers fled with their relative Adalard to the court of the West Frankish king, Charles the Bald, who granted them wardship of the march against the Vikings while the march against the Bretons was granted to Robert the Strong.
Charles' patronage of the family provoked the jealousy of the Rorgonids, the most powerful family local to Neustria and then controlling the" ducatus Cenomannicus"( Maine).
In 865, they allied with Saloman of Brittany and attacked the brothers.
Charles, to attain peace, took the march back and gave it to Gauzfrid, a Rorgonid.
A charter of 879 mentions Berengar and his brothers taking part in the foundation of the college of Gemünden.
Evidently, the death of Louis the German in 876 had allowed them to return to the court of Carloman.
His daughter Ota became wife of Arnulf of Carinthia.

Question: Who is the paternal grandfather of Carloman, Son Of Charles The Bald?
Answer: Louis the Pious