Ancestry of
Button Gwinnett

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Charles Martel

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• • 34th Great-grandfather of Button Gwinnett — 37th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 76682933280 
  • Father:
  • Pepin of Heristal 
  • Mother:
  • Alpaida (Chalpaida) of Saxony   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 0688 
  • Birth Location:
  • Herstal, Belgium 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Oct 0741 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rotrou of Trier
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  Pepin the Short (Ahnentafel No:38341466640 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia, Duke of all the Franks.

• Sources for Charles Martel

  • ¹ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 7.
  • ² Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 80.
  • ³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 57.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Charles Martel", (accessed 02/20/2010).