Saints and some of the popes
|
Name |
Birth |
Relationship with Daniel and Lalou |
St. Adela of Austrasia, perhaps the most beautiful of our saints |
670 |
36th great-grandmother |
St. Adelaide of Burgundy, a saintly empress |
932 |
29th great-grandmother |
St. Alfred the Great, a saintly king |
849 |
33rd great-grandfather |
St. Aelgifu of England, also mother of a saint |
921 |
33rd great-grandmother |
St. Arnulf of Metz, retired to monastery after years of warfare |
582 |
37th great-grandfather |
St. Bathildis of Neustria, gave birth to 3 kings |
625 |
38th great-grandmother |
St. Begga of Landen, founded 7 churches after husband's death |
620 |
41st great-grandmother |
St. Bridget of Sweden, counseled 3 popes |
1303 |
18th great-grandmother |
St. Canute of Denmark, murdered in a church |
1043 |
24th great-grandfather |
St. Canute Lavard of Denmark, murdered by his cousin |
1091 |
23rd great-grandfather |
St. Charlemagne, first Holy Roman emperor, but a saint? |
742 |
33rd great-grandfather |
St. Charles the Good, a continuous defender of the poor |
1083 |
23rd great-granduncle |
St. Clotilde, converted her pagan husband |
475 |
42nd great-grandmother |
St. Dagobert II, both father and daughters were saints too |
652 |
37th great-grandfather |
St. Edgar "the peaceful", founded 30 monasteries |
943 |
32nd great-grandfather |
St. Eric of Sweden, spread the Gospel through his kingdom |
1120 |
24th great-grandfather |
St. Ethelbert of Kent, first English lawgiver and baptizer |
552 |
39th great-grandfather |
St. Gertrude of Hamage, founded a convent |
560 |
42nd great-grandmother |
St. Gregor the Illuminator, brought Christianity to Armenia |
257 |
51st great-grandfather |
St. Ida of Nivelles, built a Benedictine monastery |
592 |
42nd great-grandmother |
St. Ladislas of Hungary, mostly a warrior |
1025 |
24th great-granduncle |
St. Leopold the Good, had 18 children, fought Hungarians |
1102 |
24th great-grandfather |
St. Ludmila of Bohemia, built first Bohemian church |
860 |
31st great-grandmother |
St. Margaret of Scotland, worked to help the poor...as a queen |
1045 |
28th great-grandmother |
St. Matilda of Saxony, queen who "comforted the sick....." |
895 |
29th great-grandmother |
St. Olav II, tried to Christen Norway with the sword |
995 |
27th great-grandfather |
St. Olga of Kiev, scalded her husband's murderers to death |
881 |
28th great-grandmother |
1050 |
30th great-granduncle |
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Pope of Rome, Gregor V, deposed and mutilated anti-pope John |
930 |
28th great-granduncle |
Pope of Rome, Leo IX, ended unchastity after Stephen X had son |
1002 |
1st cousin 29 times removed |
Pope of Rome, Stephen X, a pope for great-grandfather? |
990 |
32nd great-grandfather |
St. Sigebert of Austrasia, incompetent king and saint |
631 |
37th great-grandfather |
St. Sigismund of Burgundy, a hot tempered king |
470 |
42nd great-grandfather |
St. Stephen the Great, most of his relatives also saints |
969 |
1st cousin 28 times removed |
St. Vladimir of Kiev, pagan with 7 wives and idolatrous rites |
960 |
26th great-grandfather |
St. William of Toulouse, a Jew turning into ideal Christian knight |
765 |
33rd great-grandfather |
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