Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne

King Charles I of France (Charlemagne) 2 April 742 - 28 January 814 is a grandfather to many persons in our family tree.

As a result we have many Holy Roman Emperors and Empresses, Kings, Queens, Dukes, Duchesses, Counts, Countesses etc. as grandparents and cousins.

Welcome!

Welcome to the genealogy website of the Bacon Family.

This site displays the ancestry of the BACON, WILCOX, PETERS and MAYOSS Families.

To find your relationship to other people who are in the database, do the following:

Navigtate to your page on the website. Do this by searching for yourself at the top of the Home page, or by clicking the tags at the bottom of the page.

Setting yourself as the default person will initiate the relationship display which shows the relationship between yourself and other people in the database that you are viewing. Click the Relationship Display button at the top of your page, to set yourself as the Default Person.

Relationship results between you as the Default Person and the current person you are viewing are displayed automatically after calculation. A relationship chart may be viewed by clicking on the 'Relationship Chart' link.

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Merovech, King of the Salian Franks

Merovech (French: Mérovée, Merowig; Latin: Meroveus; c. 411 – 458) was the King of the Salian Franks and the founder of the Merovingian dynasty. Several legends and myths surround his person. He is proposed to be one of several barbarian warlords and kings that joined forces with the Roman general Aetius against the Huns under Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in Gaul in 451. His grandson Clovis I became the founder of the Frankish kingdom.

The family of Childeric and Clovis, the first Frankish royal dynasty called themselves Merovingians ("descendants of Meroveus") after him.

The legend about Merovech's conception was adapted in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln in their book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. They hypothesized that this "descended from a fish" legend was actually referring to the concept that the Merovingian line had married into the bloodline of Jesus Christ, since the symbol for early Christians had also been a fish. This theory, was further popularized in 2003 via Dan Brown's bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. However, there is no evidence for this claim that Merovech is descended from Jesus.