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Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (Born c. 890, Died 2 October 939) and Gerberge,
Queen of France (Born c. 913/914, Died 5 May 984). Gerberge was the daughter
of Heinrich I, Emperor of Germany (Born c. 876, Died 2 June 936), and the
granddaughter of Otto Duke of Saxony (Born c. 851, Died 30 November 912). OTTO
was the great-grandson of Louis I, who was the son of Charlemagne. Also on her
mother’s side, Herbert II, Count of Vermandois (Born c. 884, Died 23 February
943), son of Herbert I, was married to Hildebrante, Princess of France (Born
c. 887, Died after 931). Hildebrante was the daughter of Robert I, King of France
(Born c. 860/870, Died 15 June 923). Robert I was the son of Robert Fortis and
Adelaide, the grandson of Louis I, and the great-grandson of Charlemagne.
Herbert II and Hildebrante, therefore, were first cousins, Robert Fortis and
Adelaide being his maternal grandparents, and her paternal grandparents.
On her father’s side, Isabel de Vermandois was the granddaughter of Henry I,
King of France (Born c. 1006/1008, Died 4 August 1060) and Anna Agnesa
Yaroslavna, Grand Duchess of Kiev (Born 1036, Died c. 1075/1089). Anna Agnesa
Yaroslavna was descended from a line of five Grand Dukes of Kiev and Novgorod,
beginning with Ryuik (Rurik) (Born c. 830, Died 879), the first ruler to
consolidate the Slavic tribes; and her mother, Ingegerda Olafsdotter, Princess
of Sweden (Born c. 1001, Died 10 February 1050), was descended from a line of
eleven Kings of Sweden, beginning with Sigurd “Ring” (Born c. 730, Died 812),
before whom the ancestry is legendary, passed on by oral tradition, and the
dates are not known. Henry I was descended from a line of six Kings and Dukes
of France, beginning with Louis I, who was the son of Charlemagne. Henry I was
also the great-great-grandson of Heinrich I, Emperor of Germany who, as
described above, was likewise descended from Louis I and Charlemagne.
David Hambleton was also descended from Charlemagne through William II de
Warenne (Warren), Earl of Surrey (Born c. 1065, Died 11 May 1138), who was the
second husband of Isabel de Vermandois. Sir David Fitzwalter, Lord Cadzow de
Hambleton (Born c. 1310, Died 1378) was married to Lady Margaret Leslie (Born
c. 1320), daughter of Hugh Leslie, Fourth Earl of Ross (Born c. 1275, Died
19 July 1333) and Lady Matilda (Maud) de Bruce (Born c. 1282, Died after
September 1323). Matilda (Maud) was the sister of Robert I “The Bruce” King of
Scotland. Hugh Leslie's great-grandmother was was Margaret Huntingdon (Born
c. 1194, Died after 6 January 1233), daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon
(Born 1144, Died 17 June 1219). David was the son of Henry, Prince of Scotland
(Born c. 1114/1119, Died 12 June 1152) and Ada de Warenne (Born c. 1104), and
the grandson of William II de Warenne and Isabel de Vermandois. David, Earl of
Huntingdon was also the father of Lady Isabelle de Huntingdon (Born c. 1199,
Died 1252). Lady Isabelle de Huntingdon was the great-grandmother of Robert I
“The Bruce” King of Scotland.
William II de Warenne was the grandson of William the Conqueror, King of
England (Born 14 October 1024, Died 9 September 1087) and Matilda, Countess of
Flanders (Born c. 1031, Died 2 November 1083). Matilda was the granddaughter
of Robert II, King of France (Born 27 March 972, Died 20 July 1031), who was
the great-grandson of Robert I, King of France, and the great-great-great-
grandson of Louis I, King of France and Holy Roman Emperor, who was the son of
Charlemagne. William the Conqueror was the bastard son of Robert I, Duke of
Normandy (Born c. 999, Died 2 July 1035) and his mistress, Harlette de Falaise
(Born c. 1003). Robert I was descended from four Dukes of Normandy, beginning
with Rollo Rognvaldsson (Died c. 931), the grandson of Eystein Ivarsson (Born
c. 800) and Ascrida Rognvaldsdatter (Born c. 804), who were also the ancestors
of the Earls of Orkney from whom the Bruces of Scotland are descended.
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