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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

FYI - Charles Martel’s hammer was almost certainly not a 12oz one!

As for being a descendant of Charles Martel, the most famous linkage is to his even more famous grandson, Charles the Great aka Charlemange. Given a computation of a generation every 30 years, back to 800 is 40 generations or 2^40 which basically translates to if you have a single ancestry linkage to western Europe and you can get a noticeable sunburn, say hi to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-...grandpappy.


24 posted on 10/25/2012 2:53:38 PM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
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To: SES1066

Charlemagne had 18 children. I read somewhere that half the population of western Europe is descended from him.


38 posted on 10/26/2012 9:07:24 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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