11/04/2017

Charlemagne is Your Ancestor


You are a direct descendant of Charlemagne, Carolingian King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor, the great European conciliator.



"we are all special, which means none of us are. If you’re vaguely of European extraction, you are also the fruits of Charlemagne’s prodigious loins. A fecund ruler, he sired at least 18 children by motley wives and concubines, including Charles the Younger, Pippin the Hunchback, Drogo of Metz, Hruodrud, Ruodhaid, and not forgetting Hugh."

"This is merely a numbers game. You have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on. But this ancestral expansion is not borne back ceaselessly into the past. If it were, your family tree when Charlemagne was Le Grand Fromage would harbour more than a billion ancestors – more people than were alive then. What this means is that pedigrees begin to fold in on themselves a few generations back, and become less arboreal, and more web-like. In 2013, geneticists Peter Ralph and Graham Coop showed that all Europeans are descended from exactly the same people. Basically, everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, Drogo, Pippin and Hugh. Quel dommage."


Click to read the full article:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford



I prepared the spreadsheet below to examine this claim. It is likely true. As you can see we quickly have far more ancestors than ever existing, which means that we are descended from the same people on multiple lines. Go back far enough and we are all related, to the same person.  All Europeans are likely related to Charlemagne or someone like him. Go back a few thousand more years and all people are related to one person.


YearGenerationsYearsAncestorsNotes
2000
1
    25
You
1975250
2
19503754
192541008
1900512516
1875615032
1850717564
18258200128
18009225256
177510250512
1750112751,024
1725123002,048
1700133254,096
1675143508,192
16501537516,384
16251640032,768
16001742565,536
157518450131,072
155019475262,144
152520500524,288
1500215251,048,5761 million ancestors
1475225502,097,152
1450235754,194,304
1425246008,388,608
14002562516,777,216
13752665033,554,432
13502767567,108,864
132528700134,217,728
130029725268,435,456
127530750536,870,912Charlemagne
1250317751,073,741,8241 billion ancestors
1225328002,147,483,648- many more then existed
1200338254,294,967,296- we descend from the same
1175348508,589,934,592
11503587517,179,869,184same ancestor on multiple lines
11253690034,359,738,368
11003792568,719,476,736
107538950137,438,953,472
105039975274,877,906,944Vikings in America
1025401000549,755,813,888
10004110251,099,511,627,7761 trillion ancestors
9754210502,199,023,255,552
9504310754,398,046,511,104
9254411008,796,093,022,208All Europeans descended
90045112517,592,186,044,416from one person?
87546115035,184,372,088,832
85047117570,368,744,177,664
825481200140,737,488,355,328
800491225281,474,976,710,656Charlemagne - Probable ancestor
775501250562,949,953,421,312of all Europeans
7505112751,125,899,906,842,620
7255213002,251,799,813,685,250
7005313254,503,599,627,370,500
6755413509,007,199,254,740,990
65055137518,014,398,509,482,000
62556140036,028,797,018,964,000
60057142572,057,594,037,927,900Islam
575581450144,115,188,075,856,000
550591475288,230,376,151,712,000
525601500576,460,752,303,424,000
5006115251,152,921,504,606,850,000
4756215502,305,843,009,213,690,000
4506315754,611,686,018,427,390,000All Europeans descended
4256416009,223,372,036,854,780,000from one person?
40065162518,446,744,073,709,600,000
37566165036,893,488,147,419,100,000
35067167573,786,976,294,838,200,000
325681700147,573,952,589,676,000,000
300691725295,147,905,179,353,000,000
275701750590,295,810,358,706,000,000
2507117751,180,591,620,717,410,000,000
2257218002,361,183,241,434,820,000,000
2007318254,722,366,482,869,650,000,000All Europeans descended
1757418509,444,732,965,739,290,000,000from one person?
15075187518,889,465,931,478,600,000,000
12576190037,778,931,862,957,200,000,000
10077192575,557,863,725,914,300,000,000One person ancestor of all ?
75781950151,115,727,451,829,000,000,000
50791975302,231,454,903,657,000,000,000
25802000604,462,909,807,315,000,000,000Roman Empire, Caeser
08120251,208,925,819,614,630,000,000,000Christianity





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