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Birth:          ABT  915 
Death:          AFT Jan  962 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Constantine_of_Vienne
Charles-Constantine (died 962) was the Count of Vienne, son of Louis the Blind, King 
of Provence, and the Holy Roman Emperor.
Life[edit]

When Charles' father Louis died in 929, Hugh of Arles, who was already king of Italy, 
took over Provence and gave it, in 933, to King Rudolf II of Burgundy.[1] Charles-
Constantine for whatever reason, did not inherit the imperial throne or Provence.[2] 
This has led many to believe he was, in fact, illegitimate.[3] He was awarded the 
county of the Viennois in 931, by Rudolph of France.[4]

He was married to Thiberge de Troyes.[4] They had two sons:
Richard[4]
Hubert[4]

Name and ancestry[edit]

This count appears simply as "Carolus" (Charles) in his own charters.[5] Flodoard, 
writing his annals during the count's lifetime, called him Karolo Constantino Ludovici 
orbi filii (Charles Constantine, son of Louis the Blind), and this added byname also 
appears in the writings of 10th-century historian Richerus, who used Flodoard as a 
source.[5][6] The implications of this byname, Constantine, have been subject to 
debate. Poole considered it a toponymic name of Flodoard's devising, reference to 
Arles (sometimes called Constantina urbs),[5] but Previté-Orton sees in it a reference 
to his parentage.[7] A surviving letter by Patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos testifies that 
Emperor Leo VI the Wise of Byzantium, father of Constantine VII, had betrothed his 
daughter to a Frank prince, a cousin of Bertha (of Tuscany), to whom came later a 
great misfortune. That unfortunate prince could only be Louis III, whose mother 
Ermengard of Italy was a first cousin of Bertha, and who was blinded on 21 July 905, 
while the prospective bride would have been Emperor Leo's only surviving daughter at 
that time, Anna, born to his second wife Zoe Zaoutzaina.[7] Charles Constantine 
would thus have been given names reflecting his paternal and maternal imperial 
heritage.[8] However, it is still questioned whether the planned marriage ever took 
place,[9] and there are chronological difficulties (not insurmountable in the opinion of 
Previté-Orton) in making Anna the mother of Charles Constantine.[7] Richerus 
suggested that the ancestry of Charles Constantine was tainted by illegitimacy back to 
five generations,[7] although the meaning of this is disputed.

Parents
____ Louis III Beronides "the Blind" (ABT  883 - 28 Jun  928)
OF BYZANTIUM Anna (EST  898 - )

Siblings
OF VIENNE Charles Constantine (ABT  915 - AFT Jan  962)

Marriage To DE TROYES Teutberge (ABT  900 - AFT  960)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Garnier (Warinus) ( 868 - 6 Dec  925)
DE ARLES Teutberga (ABT  881 - BEF 30 Sep  948)

Children by DE TROYES Teutberge ABT  900 - AFT  960
OF PROVENCE, ARLES AND TOULOUSE Constance (ABT  933 - ABT  961)
____ Richard (ABT  935 - AFT Jan  962)

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