Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Charles of Lower Lorraine

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• • 30th Great-grandfather of Bill Gates — 33rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6881882486 
  • Father:
  • Louis IV, King of France 
  • Mother:
  • Gerberga of Saxony   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 0953 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 0993 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Adelaide -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 0970 
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  Gerberga of Lower Lorraine (Ahnentafel No:3440941243 )

  Adelaide of Lower Lorraine

  • Notes: 
  • Duke of Lower Lorraine. Some sources have Charles marrying Agnes, daughter of Henry, Count of Vermandois instead of Robert.

• Sources for Charles of Lower Lorraine

  • ¹ thePeerage.com: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain as Well as the Royal Families of Europe, (accessed 04/11/2011).
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is . . ., 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 150.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 560, 562-569.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 919.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine", _Duke_of_Lower_Lorraine, (accessed 02/23/2010).
  • ⁶ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 428.

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