Descendants of Aethewulf

In the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, Aethewulf blood was
one of the highest insignia of nobility, sealing something like membership of the
chivalric family of the world. Although the demand was highest in western Europe
such a heritage was also esteemed in Scandinavian countries. Even today a number
of private web pages aim specifically to demonstrate Scandinavian descents from Aethewulf descent serves as a relatively good indicator of the adoption in
Scandinavia of the characteristics of western European civilization. The spread of that
descent can be measured geographically, temporally and through social class.
Apparently because Norway at the time was essentially part of other kingdoms,
Norwegian genealogies in the late medieval and early modern period have been
relatively obscure in the wider European context. For example, there is next to
nothing in Europäische Stammtafeln (ES), which is practically devoid of Norwegian
families after the last dynasts of the so-called house of Fairhair2
. The lack of critical
study has given too much opportunity for unsubstantiated genealogies. Many
Norwegians have been erroneously taught to believe (cf Løberg, 1998) that their
indigenous nobility went extinct either because of the Black Death and/or because
foreign oppression of the 15th and 16th centuries replaced them with foreigners. To
counter these fabricated genealogies and the supposed extinction of so many

1. Adelaide (c799-?)
2. Adelaide of Italy (-)
3. Adeltrude of Maine (?-?)
4. Adula of Italy (?-?)
5. Alpais (793-855)
6. Arnulf of Sens (c794-?)
7. Arsinde de Ponthieu (c798-?)
8. Bernard of Italy (797-818)
9. Berthe de Ponthieu (c805-859)
10. Berthe of Italy (?-?)
11. Charles the Bald (823-877)
12. Eberhard de Paris (c808-c865)
13. Gisela (c820-aft874)
14. Goundrade of Italy (?-?)
15. Harnid (?-?)
16. Hildegard (c802-841)
17. Landrade de Paris (815-)
18. Leuthard II de Paris (806-858)
19. Lothair (795-855)
20. Louis de Saint Denis (c800-867)
21. Louis the German (c806-876)
22. Nithard (c790-c844)
23. Pepin I of Aquitaine (797-838)
24. Rotrude (800-860)
25. Theodrade of Italy (?-?

1. Adahard di Friuli (-874)
2. Alpais di Friuli (?-?)
3. Berengar I di Friuli (c843-924)
4. Bertha (?-877)
5. Bertha (c830-c877)
6. Berthe de Ponthieu (827-?)
7. Berthe de Reims (c814-?)
8. Carloman (849-876)
9. Carloman (853-?)
10. Charles (876-877)
11. Charles de Provence (c845-863)
12. Charles of Aquitaine (c827-863)
13. Charles the Child (847-866)
14. Charles the Fat (839-888)
15. Drogo (872-873)
16. Eberhard di Friuli (837-840)
17. Ermentrud (854-877)
18. Gisela (857-874)
19. Gisela (?-?)
20. Gisela (c830-860)
21. Gisela di Friuli (aft835-c863)
22. Gosselin I de Bassigny (c836-c861)
23. Guido I di Spoleto (-860)
24. Heilwide di Friuli (c855-c895)
25. Helletrud (c826-c866)
26. Herbouin de Ponthieu (c830-c878)
27. Hildegard (828-c856)
28. Hildegard (856-?)
29. Ingeltrude de Paris (?-?)
30. Ingeltrude di Friuli (c836-867)
31. Irmgard (c830-849)
32. Irmgard of Chiemsee (c831-866)
33. Judith (844-870)
34. Judith di Friuli (863-881)
35. Lambert III de Nantes (-862)
36. Lisois de Craon (827-907)
37. Lothair II of Lotharingia (c835-869)
38. Lothar (848-865)
39. Louis II (c825-875)
40. Louis the Stammerer (846-879)
41. Louis the Younger (830-882)
42. Pepin II of Aquitaine (823-aft864)
43. Pepin de Vermandois (c815-aft848)
44. Pippin (873-874)
45. Raoul di Friuli (-892)
46. Rothilde (871-929)
47. Rotrud (852-912)
48. Rotrud (c837-882)