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GGGGGrandpa Charlemagne and Other Big Mucky Mucks



   GGGGG..Grandpa King Charlemagne 
       2 April 742 – 28 January 814

Charlemagne was a very impressive King and your ancestor. Note the family resemblance.

Kings and Queens were wealthy and produced numerous offspring. Most people alive today are descended from these people. And now we have proof, more or less, that we are descended from many big mucky mucks.

I uploaded our genealogy to the Church of the Latter-Day Saints Familysearch.org program. The program combines our genealogy into their very large database and provides numerous connections back to ancient times. 


You have to sign in to familysearch.org to use the system - it is free.
Or you may have to create your own account - put your parents and grandparents into the system and you will have the same data.

Harlan's Descended From Charlemagne

We can now trace our ancestral lines much further back in history. Our Harlan genealogy had begun with William Harland #1 b.1594, of Bishophrick, Bainbridge, Durham, England, d. 29 Jul 1651, Sunderland, Durham, England.  But genealogists continue to research and publish their findings on the internet. Our Harlan line now goes five more generations back before we run out of information on our Harlan name line.

Henry Harland  abt 1522, d abt 1580 Sutton Hall - Sutton Hall and Huby, in the North Riding of Yorkshire: a portion of the property was in the family before the Restoration, and another granted to Captain Richard Harland for his services in the royalist army at the battle of Marston Moor. Also the Middleton estate near Darlington, in the county of Durham, which has been possessed for some time by the family.  COAT OF ARMS: Argent on a bend between two cottizes three stag's heads caboshed azure  CREST: A sea horse ppr. holding between his hoofs a stag's head caboshed az. charged with an escallop, for HARLAND

Robert Harland , b. 1546, of Bishophrick, Bainbridge, Durham, England


James Harland , b. 1570, Bishophrick, Bainbridge, Durham, England, d. Abt 1615, Bishophrick, Bainbridge, Durham

William Harland , b. 1594, of Bishophrick, Bainbridge, Durham, England , d. 29 Jul 1651, , Sunderland, Durham, England

Info on this site William Harland

But following other lines back gets us to famous people.  Wealthy people and nobles had more children than other people, and set them up in life. Their children had more healthy children who survived, and so on.  Eventually most people are connected to famous people.

So are the descendants of the Harlan, as shown on the listing below.  We descend from famous Charlemagne and a number of other famous and infamous Kings, Queens, Counts and Barons.

And that will buy you a cup of coffee if you have the coin. Still, it is fun to check it out.

Here is our known line of descent. But virtually everyone of European descent has famous ancestors on all of their lines.

Charlemagne Carolingians, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire b 2 Apr 0742

Rotrud Carolingians, Princess of the Holy Roman Empire  b Aug 774 d 810

Roricon II du Maine, 0808  Count of Maine

Blichilde de Maine, Countess of Poitiers B 832

Count Ranulph II de Poitiers, King of Aquitaine B 850 d 890

Adelaide Carolingians, Princess of the Franks Abt 0866 d 935

Sénégonde de Marcillac b 910 Aubnay, Nord, France

Viscount Cadelon II d'Aubnay,   b. 0935, of, St. Martin d'Aubigny, Nord, France

Niel Albini, Jr.   b. Abt 0970, , St. Martin d'Aubigny, Nord, France

Adèle de Belvoir,   b. Abt 1014, of Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicester, England

William d'Aubigny,   b. Abt 1000, , St. Martin d'Aubigny, Nord, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1049  (Age ~ 49 years)

Roger d'Aubigny, b. Abt 1040, Aubigny, Calvados, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1084  (Age ~ 45 years)

William I d'Aubigny,   b. Abt 1075, of, Aubigny, Calvados, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1139  (Age ~ 64 years)

William II d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel,   b. Abt 1102, of, Buckenham, Norfolk, England,   d. 11 Oct 1157, Waverly Abbey, Waverley, Surrey, Englan

Ralph de Albini, Viscount of Petherton,   b. Abt 1134, of, South Petherton, Somerset, England,   d. Abt 1192, Acre, Hazafon, Israel, Palestine

Ralph de Aubigny,   b. Abt 1173, of South Ingelby, Saxelby, Lincoln, England,   d. Abt 1220

Ralph de Albini,   b. Abt 1214, of South Ingelby, Saxelby, Lincoln, England, d. Bef 25 Jan 1291-1292

Viscount Elias d'Aubeney, b.1264, of, Jersey Island, Channel Islands, England

Alianora d'Aubeney abt 1300  Jersey Island, Channel Islands, England

Edmund Hussey  Abt 1320 of, Holbrook, Somerset, England
Joan Hussey  1338 Holbrook, Somerset, England

Sir. Walter Hungerford, Baron,  b. 22 Jun 1378, , Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England,  d. 9 Aug 1449, Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England  (Age 71 years)

John Hungerford, b. Abt 1421, Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, England

Anne Hungerford,   b. Abt 1478, of, Newbury, Berkshire, England

Edward Langley,   b. 1522, of, Sandy, Bedford, England

Thomas Langley 1548 Sandy, Bedfordshire, England

Anne Langley 27 Mar 1676 Sandy, Bedfordshire, England, died 30 Jul 1677 Salem Essex, MA,

Elizabeth Seaman 1603 West Ely, Cambridge, England marries William Harland William Harland #1  b. 1594, of Bishophrick, Bainbridge, Durham, England,   d. 29 Jul 1651, , Sunderland, Durham, England

George Harlan #3  b 11 Mar 1649, christened 11 Jan 1650 Monkwearmouth, Bishophrick, Bainbridge, Durham, England, died July 1714 Centre Memorial Cemetery, Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania - Our First American Harlan ancestor

Aaron Harlan #8;

George Harlan # 37;

George Harlan #180

Moses Harlan  #676 b Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1786; died in Peoria, Ill., 1842)  mosesharlan.blogspot.com

Lewis Harlan #2291, b. 8, 17, 1823; m. Eveline Chapin lewisharlan.blogspot.com

Marion Harlan b 1861 d September 8, 1927, Vivian, South Dakota hullingerheritage.blogspot.com

Pearl Harlan Hullinger June 28,1895 Prole Warren County Iowa, d Jan 20, 1993  hullingerheritage.blogspot.com

Clif Harlan b July 3, 1920 Vivian, Lyman County, South Dakota clifhullinger.blogspot.com   clifhullinger.blogspot.com

And everyone related to Clif Hullinger

! Charlemagne to County Ranulph II Poiters, King of Aquitane.png


We should not get to uppity, however. The funny article below illustrates how all people of European descent are likely descended from Charlemagne.

"Wow, do I ever have a lot of cousins.  According to Graham Coop, everyone in Europe today is descended from Charlemagne.  Which either means I’m special and so is everyone else, or we’re all just normal.  National Geographic wrote an article about the results of the Coop study in more easily readable verbiage, here.  The Coop team also wrote a nontechnical FAQ, here.
In 2002, Steven Olson wrote this verbiage in the Atlantic magazine about the work of statistician Joseph Chang:
The most recent common ancestor of every European today (except for recent immigrants to the Continent) was someone who lived in Europe in the surprisingly recent past—only about 600 years ago. In other words, all Europeans alive today have among their ancestors the same man or woman who lived around 1400. Before that date, according to Chang’s model, the number of ancestors common to all Europeans today increased, until, about a thousand years ago, a peculiar situation prevailed: 20 percent of the adult Europeans alive in 1000 would turn out to be the ancestors of no one living today (that is, they had no children or all their descendants eventually died childless); each of the remaining 80 percent would turn out to be a direct ancestor of every European living today.
Now, granted, Charlemagne was indeed prolific, siring 18 known children.  I guess I’m just lucky in that I descend from two known children, one who was the King of Italy and one who was the King of France.  I must tell you, all this king stuff sounds very surreal to me.
Click to read the full article by one of my favorite authors Roberta Estes.


I took some screenshots below which shows our path back to Charlemagne. There are a number of other paths back to the Kings and Queens of Europe. And that and a buck+ will get you a cup of coffee. Still, it is fun. Our Hullinger and Harlan ancestors do not show the path back to Charlemagne, although surely they do. Where I found the paper trail was with the wife of George Harlan, Mrs. Seamen.  Her ancestry goes back to Charlemagne, and many other big mucky mucks. And there are a number of ways to go back.










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