Charles Martel is my direct bloodline great granfather!

**Visage pâle** · 03-15-2019, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Dunai

After some very thorough research over my family's ancestry, I managed to find Charles Martel as my direct blood relative on two separate branches of my family tree (it could be even more, my research is still not fully finished). This to me is absolutely mindblowing, as he was always one of my favorite military leaders in history and one of the truest heroes and protectors of European civilization. He is on my mother's side, and I am extremely lucky, because she is quarter Donauschwaben, and managed to trace this part of my lineage back to 18th century West Germany/East France, and here I was also even more lucky, because some of the branches from this area have continuity to some Late Medieval German aristocrats, and this way with the help of sites like Geni, MyHeritage and Geneanet, after careful double-checking and countless hours, I managed to even trace these German lineages way back in time, to Charles Martel, and even before him. What also blew my mind is that I happen to have direct blood connection with almost all the great royal and even imperial dynasties of Europe: Caroling emperor, French, English, Kievan Rus', Italian, German kings, Viking jarls. Unfortunately I am still not very fortunate with my largely Hungarian origin, as I met already many dead ends on these branches and the further back I got is late 18th century. But I still have several leads on my family tree, and thus my very meticulous and time-demanding work will continue on it.

Me too, because i have french noble ancestors if i go back to 16th century.