Are you descended from Charlemagne?

[Mikula]

Wrong, only thoses with noble ancestry are sure to descend from him.

He was a womanizer, not only noblers are decendents of him

[Alcuin52]

Wrong, only thoses with noble ancestry are sure to descend from him

So that's everybody, then.

The man was born in the mid-8th Century and had 18 children.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Wrong, only thoses with noble ancestry are sure to descend from him.

He had many illegitimate children that didn't become part of the noble class.

[Alcuin52]

He had many illegitimate children that didn't become part of the noble class

Charlemagne lived, what? 50 generations ago? Even accounting for genetic dead-ends who died as children, or in warfare, or infertile, two or so children per generation is an awful lot. In fact, several orders greater than the number of humans who have ever lived. Royal interbreeding can only account for so many offspring, and primogeniture can only benefit so many. Most Europeans, particularly in France, Britain, Germany, etc are almost certainly descended from all of his legitimate children as well as those who were born to Charlemagne's wives.

[Myanthropologies]

I don't know if I buy that everyone on every end of Europe descends from him. This was all based on a statistical guess anyways

[Sora]

No. I descended from Oghuz Khagan

[rein]

No.

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

As a matter of fact, I'm a descendant of Edward Doty himself.

[TheOldNorth]

My aunt used to make a big deal out of the fact that we are descended from him. I thought it was cool until I read this:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ersal-royalty/

So pretty much every white European is descended from him. Okay.

Is Charlemagne in your bloodline?

(The Mayflower passenger referred to in the passage is Edward Doty, who is an ancestor of my husband. We are all cousins up in here)

Yes, He's in my family tree countless times... makes me wonder just how much of his actual DNA if any ended up in me...

[Regnera]

Nope