the ledger of connections
The Connections of Charles the Bald
King of West Francia from 843 to 877 and Carolingian Emperor from 875 to 877 Every person recorded alongside Charles the Bald in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Charles the Bald in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Louis the Pious, Judith of Bavaria
- Spouses
- Ermentrude of Orléans, Richilde of Provence
- Children
- Judith of Flanders, Louis the Stammerer, Charles the Child, Carloman, Lothar the Lame, Rothilde, Ermentrude, Hildegard, Gisela, Rotrude, Drogo, Pippin
- Siblings
- Lothair I, Louis the German, Pepin I of Aquitaine, Arnulf of Sens, Gisela, Rotrude, Bertha, Hildegard, princess of Francia, Alpaïs of Paris
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 823 CE to 877 CE.
Medieval era
Mahavira
800 CE – 875 CE
Mathematician
Medieval era
Al-Mu'tasim
796 CE – January 5, 842 CE
8th Abbasid Caliph. (r. 833–842)
Medieval era
Al-Mutawakkil
822 CE – December 11, 861 CE
10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)
Medieval era
Alfred the Great
849 CE – October 26, 899 CE
King of Wessex (r. 872–901)
Medieval era
Al-Khwarizmi
c. 750 CE – 846 CE
Mathematician of Baghdad who gave the world algebra and algorithms
Medieval era
Al-Razi
866 CE – 925 CE
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Medieval era
Rudaki
859 CE – 941 CE
Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry
Medieval era
Ismail Samani
849 CE – November 24, 907 CE
Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907
Medieval era
Al-Jahiz
775 CE – 868 CE
Arabic writer (776–869)
Medieval era
Fatima al-Fihri
800 CE – 880 CE
Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
Medieval era
Æthelflæd
870 CE – June 12, 918 CE
Mercian monarch
Medieval era
Kenneth MacAlpin
810 CE – February 8, 858 CE
King of the Picts