Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of the West, King of the Franks Charlemagne
Charlemagne, in Latin Carolus Magne (Charles the Great) (742-814) king of the Franks (768-814) and Emperor of the Romans (800-14), who led his Frankish armies to victory over numerous other peoples and established his rule in most of western and central Europe. He was the best known and most influential king in Europe in the Middle Ages.
Charlemagne was probably born in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) on April 2, 742, the son of Frankish king Pepin the short and the grandson of Charles Martel. In 751 AD, Pepin dethroned the last Meringovian king and assumed the royal title himself. He was crowned by Pope Stephen II in 754. Besides annointing Pepin, Pope Stephen annointed both Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman.
Within the year, Pepin invaded Italy to protect the pope against the Lombards, and in 756 he again had to rush to the pope's aid. Pepin's main military efforts went into the conquest of Aquitane, the lands south of the Loire River. Charlemagne accompanied his father on most of these expeditions.When Pepin died in 768, the rule of his realms was to be shared between his two sons. In 771, Carloman died suddenly. Charlemagne then seized his territories. In 772, Pope Adrian I appealed to Charlemagne for help against Desiderius, king of the Lombards. Charlemagen invaded Italy, deposed Desiderius (774) and himself assumed the royal title. He then journeyed to Rome and reaffirmed his father's promise to protect papal lands. As00 early as 772, Charlemagne had fought onslaughts of the heathen Saxons on his lands. Buoyed by his Italian success, he now embarked on a campaign to conquer and Christianize the Saxons. That campaign had some initial success but was to drag on for 30 years, in which time he conducted many other campaigns as well. He fought Spain in 778; on the return trip his rear guard, led by Roland, was ambushed --- a story immortalized in "The Song of Roland." In 788 he subjected the Bavarians to his rule, and between 791 and 796 Charlemagne's armies conquered the empire of the Avars (corresponding roughly to modern Hungary and Austria).
Having thus established Frankish rule over so many other peoples, Charlemagne had in fact built and empire and become emperor. It remained only for him to add the title. On Christmas Day, in 800, Charlemagne knelt to pray in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope Leo III then placed a crown upon his head, and the people assembled in the church acclaimed him the great, pacific emperor of the Romans. Charlemagne's biographer, Einhard, reported than the king was surprised by this coronation and that had he known it was going to happen, he would not have gone to church that day. This report has led to much speculation by historians. Charlemagne probably desired and expected to get the imperial title and he subsequently used it. In 813, he designated his sole surviving son, Louis, as his successor, and personnaly crowned him.
Charlemagne established a more permanent royal capital than had any of his predecessors. His favorite residence from 794 on was at Aix-la-Chapelle. He had a church and a palace constructed there, based in part on architectural borrowing from Ravenna and Rome. At his court he gathered scholars from all over Europe, the most famous being the English cleric Alcuin of York, whom he placed in charge of the palace school.
Administration of the empire was entrusted to some 50 royal administrators called counts. Charlemagne issued hundreds of decrees, called capitularies, dealing with a broad range of topics fron judicial and military matters to monasteries, education, and the management of royal estates.
The empire did not expand after 800; indeed, already in the 790's the seacoasts and river valleys experienced the first, dreaded visits of the Vikings. Charlemagne ordered a special watch against them in every harbor, but with little effect. He died before their full, destructive force was unleashed on the empire.
Charlemagne is important not only for the number of his victories and the size of his empire, but for the special blend of tradition and innovation that he represented. On the one hand, he was a traditional germanic warrior who spent most of his life fighting. In the Saxon campaigns he imposed baptism by the sword, and he retaliated against rebels with a merciless slaughter. On the other hand, he placed immense power and prestige at the service of the Christian doctrine, the monastic life, the teaching of latin, the copying of books, and the rule of law. His life, held up as a model to most later kings, thus embodied the fusion of Germanic, Roman, and Christian cultures that became the basis of European civilization.
Many of the Magna Charta Barons trace their ancestry to Charlemagne.
Was canonized by the church some years after his death.
James F Callender
Name: Callender, James F
Father: Callender , Richard
Birth Date: 1837
City: Owen
State: KY
Country: USAFamily Data Collection - Births Record about James F Callender
Name: Callender, James F
Father: Callender , Richard
Mother: Marston , Matilda Ellen
Birth Date: 1835
State: KY
Country: USA1850 United States Federal Census Record about James F Callender
Name: James F Callender
Age: 15
Estimated birth year: abt 1835
Birth place: Kentucky
Gender: Male
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 1, Owen, Kentucky1860 United States Federal Census Record about James F Calendar
Name: James F Calendar
Age in 1860: 23
Birth Year: abt 1837
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: Big Creek, Henry, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Huntingdale
Household Members: Name Age
Richard Calendar 51
Matilda Calendar 45
John H Calendar 22
William Q Calendar 20
Philip Calendar 18
Polly Calendar 16
Richard T Calendar 14
Amanda S Calendar 12
Elizabeth Calendar 8
Addia Norah Calendar 7
Robert A Calendar 3
James F Calendar 23It would appear that James F. Callender left his wife Sarah Ann Newby and children with his wife's family, went to Cerrillos in 1879 and commenced staking claims in 1879 and 1880.
James Franklin Callender is shown as having as staked an interest in a number of claims in 1879 and 1880 in the Cerrillos area including Miguel Romero Lode, Mina de Guadalupe Lode, La Mina Merced Lode, Old Castillian Lode, Mystic Lode, Gonzales Lode, Ground Floor Lode, Mina Jose L. Perea Lode, Herrman de Caridad Lode, Straight Flush Lode, Vista Grande Lode, Mina Gefe de Plata Lode, Nellie Short Lode, La Mina de Chiquita Lode, AT&SF Lode Vein, Mina Santa Fe lode, La Mina Rey del Plata Lode, Newby Lode, La Mina Rey de Cobre Lode, Spielgeberg Bonanza, Marshal Bonanza Lode, Baca Bonanza Lode, Old Indian Prospect, Angela Buddet, Gefe de Ovo Lode, Mammoth Lode, Queen of trhe South Caud, Humbold Lode, Wheel of Fortune Lode, and Chiquite Lode. In March 1880, James F. and his partners sold to D. C. Hyde for $1,000.00 plus 1/3 of net proceeds of turquoise or chalchuil that may be found in a number of the foregoing claims. Also sold for $27,000.00 to D.C. Hyde undivided1/3 in number of others. And sold for $3,000.00 to D.C. Hyde of NYC undivided 1/3 of another. For $25,000 to Lehman Speilgeberg other mining interests. Other large sales and business ventures recorded during this same period in 1880.
1880 United States Federal Census Record about J. F. Calander
Name: J. F Calander
Age: 45
Estimated birth year: <1835>
Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Miner
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Home in 1880: Los Cerillos Mines, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Marital status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Father's birthplace: KY
Mother's birthplace: KYMay 18 1888: "Nasorio Gonzales gave a Quit Claim Deed to W.H. Shup, W.M. Keesee, C. G. Booth, and O. L. Houghton all of Las Vegas, NM to all his interests in the Merced de la Mesita Juana Lopez Grant, lying betwen the Galisteo River and the Ne Mexico Southern Pacific Railway, encompassing Waldo Gulch and Coal Gulch. Keesee laid out a Township, recorded the Plat of Keeseeville, NM July 1892. He sold lots, gave leases to at least fifteen individuals to work the coal mine at Waldo Gulch. Such men as Shoemaker, Callender, Jones and Williams bought lots, built houses, worked the mine and named the settlement Madrid."
1900 United States Federal Census Record about James W Calender
Name: James W Calender
Home in 1900: Bland, Bernalillo, New Mexico
Age: 64
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1836
BirthPlace: Kentucky
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Race: White
Occupation:
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Household Members: Name Age
James W Calender 64
Ernest W Calender 22
Clarence E Calender 20
Daniel Calender 181910 United States Federal Census Record about James Franklin Callander
Name: James Franklin Callander
Age in 1910: 74
Estimated birth year: abt 1836
Birthplace: Kentucky
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Virginia
Mother's Birth Place: Kentucky
Home in 1910: Bland, Sandoval, New Mexico
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Gender: Male
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Magna Charta Surety, Earl of Winchester Saire de Quincey
SAIRE de QUINCEY, the Surety, born before 1154, was a Baron present at Lincoln when William the Lion of Scotland did homage to the English monarch in October 1200. He obtained large grants and immunities from King John and was created Earl of Winchester, 2 March 1207, having been governor in 1203 of the Castle of Ruil in Normandy. He is created with rewriting Magna Charta from the Charter of King Henry I and the Saxon Code. Because he had opposed the King’s concession to the Pope’s legate, he was bitterly hated by King John. One of the Barons to whom the City and Tower of London were resigned, Saire de Quincey was excommunicated with the other Barons the following year. He was sent, with Robert FitzWalter, the Surety, by the other Barons, to invite the Dauphin of France to assume the Crown of England and, even after the death of King John, he kept a strong garrison in Montsorell Castle in behalf of Prince Louis. When the Barons, being greatly outnumbered, were defeated by the troops of King Henry III, Saire de Quincey, with many others, was made prisoner and his estates forfeited. In the following October his immense estates were restored upon his submission. In 1218 the Earl of Winchester went with the Earls of Chester and Arundel to the Holy Land, assisted at the siege of Damietta in 1219, and died 3 November in the same year, on the way to Jerusalem. His wife was Margaret Beaumont, whom he married before 1173.
At the beginning of John’s reign, Saire de Quincey was not a Baron, much less a great one. In the civil war the King had had the advantage over the rebels. Few of the Barons had had much actual military experience. The Barons’ contribution to the war was the scutage they paid, a war fund substituted for the contingent of knights owed to the King’s service. The money was collected from vassals, and mercenary knights were paid from it. Many of the mercenaries were regulars who served the same Baron from campaign to campaign, but those Barons who are known to have had extensive military experience were only Saire de Quincey, Robert FitzWalter, William de Mowbray, William d’Albini, Roger de Cressi and Robert de Roos.
Saire de Quincey is associated with two stalwart Castles in the South of England: Colchester and Winchester, both with the Latin castrum root, signifying that they were once the site of Roman forts.
Colchester Castle could not have been built before the early 12th Century, though Roman materials may have been re-used in its construction. The keep, the only portion now surviving, is in complete harmony with other Norman castles. Colchester must have been a formidable stronghold, and a challenge to Saire de Quincey. The King's men held the Castle against Quincey, the first Earl to attack Colchester. John had given the fortress into the charge of a Fleming whom he thought he could trust. But Quincey took the Castle, and later found holding it more difficult. The fighting was of such a nature that John himself came to Colchester to see just how stubborn Saire de Quincey was. The Earl held the Castle for two months, but lack of food forced him to give up and take flight to France.
Colchester was the largest Norman keep in England. It measures one hundred fifty-two by one hundred seventeen feet, enclosing nearly twice the area of the Tower of London. Its walls vary between eleven and thirty feet in thickness. It was erected either by William the Conqueror or by William II. It is of the quadrangular variety, turreted at the corners. In it and elsewhere herringbone masonry has been noted.
Winchester Castle was first erected by William the Conqueror. Later alterations and extra height were added by Henry III, about the year 1138. The great Hall has Purbeck columns of 13th Century architecture, supporting a restored roof and containing handsome windows of the same approximate period. Only the keep remains. "How commonplace this saying, 'Only the keep still stands,' . . . thanks to the old builders who made the keep strong and high to withstand time, and so difficult to tear down that it escaped the looters of the ages." Perhaps Murphy was thinking of Colchester or Winchester when he thus wrote, for this was the fate of the Quincey strongholds.
A descendant of Charlemagne.
Magna Charta Surety, Earl of Glouster,Baron Gilbert de Clare
A Surety Baron, and son of Richard de Clare the preceding Surety, was born about the year 1180. In June 1202, he was entrusted with the lands of Harfleur and Mostrevilliers. He was one of the Barons still opposing the arbitrary proceeding of the crown, who championed Louis le Dauphin, fighting at Lincoln under the baronial banner, and was taken prisonerd by William Marshall, whose daughter he later married. He led an army against the Welsh in 1228 and captured Morgan Gam, who was released the next year. Being engaged in an expedition to Brittany, he died on his way back at Penros in that duchy, 25 October 1230. His body was conveyed by way of Plymouth and Cranbourn to Tewkesbury. He was buried there before the high altar, 10 November 1230, a monument being erected by his widow, Isabella, sister of William Marshall, the Surety, and daughter of William Marshall, the Protector.
Sister of William Marshall, the Surety Baron, and daughter of William Marshall the Protector.
Protector of England, Earl of Pembroke William Marshall
The famous Lord Pembroke, regent and Protector of the Kingdom. Earl William was constable of Chichester Castle and sheriff of Gloucestershire.
Magna Charta Surety, Earl of Clare Richard de Clare
Was present at the coronation of King Richard I at Westminister, 3 September 1189, and of King John on 27 May, 1199. He sided with the Barons against King John, and his castle of Tonbridege was taken. On 9 November 1215, he was one of the commissioners on the part of the Barons to treat of peace with King John. On 4 March 1215/6 his lands in counties of Cambridge, Norfolk,Suffolk, and Essex were granted to Robert de Betun; and he and his son were among the Barons excommunicated by the Pope and 1215.
This line also descends from Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor.
Countess of Gloucester Amice FitzRobert
Second daughter of William FitzRobert, Earl of Gloucester, and his wife Hawise, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester. Also called Amicia Meullent. Another descendant of Charlemagne.
Arthur was the brother of Col. George Jordan, Atty. General of Virginia, 1670.
The Daughters of Colonial Dames accept Eppes, Anderson, Jordan The will of Arthur Jordan, dated 24 Sep 1698 witnessed by Nathaniel Harrison, Walter Flood and Thomas Flood. Arthur Jordan left legacies to his son GEORGE JORDAN, II (ancestor), his son River Jordan, and son and daughter Washington, and granddaughter Elizabeth Jordan and grandson Arthur Washington. [DB 4, pp 160] In this will, Arthur Jordan left all his lands in Surry to George Jordan, II, as well as "other estate in Virginia and elsewhere" to George and River, to be equally divided." This land lay east of Sunken Meadow, south of, but extending into, Flood's land, and running east toward Wareneck along the Spring Run, or northern branch, of Gray's Creek. On 4 Jul 1699, the inventory and appraisement of the estate of Arthur Jordan was recorded. River Jordan was the executor. [DB 4, pp 169]Arthur Jordan's first recorded patents for Surry land do not appear until 1681 (150 acres) and 1684 (250 acres). But it is clear that Arthur Jordan had previously gained substantial holdings. In 1655, he was mentioned as a Southwark planter and guardian to Elizabeth Hutton, whose lands he cared for. In 1662, William Jennings, who was at odds with the Jordans for years, protested Arthur Jordan's possession of a patent he himself claimed.
When James De Lisle wooed Peninah Doudna, a member of the Quaker Church, she would lose her "birthright" in the church if she married him. She agree to do so if he would drop the "De" for his name, which directly connected him with the French. Thus he was married as James Lisle and the Lisle family was honorably established in America.
His mother married George Hall after James's father died, and James was adopted by George Hall.
When James De Lisle wooed Peninah Doudna, a member of the Quaker Church, she would lose her "birthright" in the church if she married him. She agree to do so if he would drop the "De" for his name, which directly connected him with the French. Thus he was married as James Lisle and the Lisle family was honorably established in America.
GEORGE LISLE, M. D., the pioneer settler of Chetopa and the man who named the town, was born in Wayne Township, Belmont Co., Ohio, February 22, 1814. He received his literary education in the public schools of his native county, and read medicine at Beallsville, Ohio, with Dr. Louis Gradigney, a celebrated French physician. Attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, sessions of 1837-38, and graduated from that institution in the spring of 1838, having practiced three years previous to attending lectures. He was engaged in practice at Powhattan, Ohio, until the fall of 1856. April 17, 1857, he came to the place where Chetopa is now located. He supposed that he had located on the strip, and his design was to start a town. After putting up a couple of small buildings, he was notified by the Osage Indians that he was on their land, but soon arrived at an amicable understanding with them receiving a permit to remain. The first year he was here he had twenty acres of land plowed on the first site of the city of Chetopa, and also plowed several acres the same season on the east side of the river. He assisted to make two annual payments to the Osages, being employed by the Government as Indian Agent. He was Mayor of the city during 1873 and part of 1874. He having great admiration for Chetopa, the old Chief of the Osages, gave his name to the town which he (the doctor) formed. The interpretation of the same is as follows: "Che," houses of lodges: "topa." four: Chetopa - four lodges. The Doctor came to Kansas for the benefit of the health of his family, and found the relief for which he was seeking. October 10, 1833, He was married, at Sinclairsville, Ohio, to Phoebe Wood, a native of Wayne Township, Belmont Co., Ohio. She was boun December 11, 1814; she died January 6, 1863. Four children survive her - Penina, now Mrs. J. E. Bryan, of Oswego, Kan,; Lettie, now Mrs. Sam Paxson, Chetopa; Martha, now Mrs. Joseph Columbia, of Chetopia, and John. The Doctor was married at Chetopa, January 12, 1879, to his present wife, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Holland, a native of Fountain County, Ind., but reared in Illinois, from the age of two years, living in Iroquois County until 1865, and then came to Cherokee County, Kan., being one of the early settlers of that county. He has one child - Nellie, by his present marriage. Mrs. Lisle has two children by a former marriage - Grant, fourteen years of age, and Ida May, twelve years of age. The Doctor is a member of the A., F. & A. M. He has been engaged in active practice since first locating here. In an early day he did some trading with the Indians.
Dr. Henry Lisle remained at home until he reached his majority, and at the age of twenty-three years began the study of medicine with his brother, George. He spent four years with him, and practiced during the fourth year. He began practice alone in Powhatan county, Virginia, where he spent the greater part of seven years. He practiced eight years at Hunter, Ohio, near his old home, and four years at Murraysville, West Virginia. After spending three years at Queensville, Indiana, he removed to Labette county, and opened an office at Chetopa. He lived there two years and in 1871 moved on his farm in Richland township, which is the northwest quarter of section 5, township 35, range 21. This farm was in the Cherokee strip, the Osage line being the northern boundary. Dr. Lisle has made many improvements on his farm, and has a fine house. He has an orchard of five acres, and now owns 120 acres of land, although he, formerly owned more. He has leased the land during the past few years, - being unable to work much, but it is still under his management. Dr. Lisle keeps some stock, - favoring Shorthorn cattle.
Dr. Lisle was originally a Whig, in politics, and is now a Republican. He has held the offices of treasurer and trustee of his township. He was raised a Quaker, but is now liberal in his religious views. He was made a Mason in Ohio, fifty-seven years ago, and is a member of the blue lodge at Chetopa. Dr. Lisle is a very intelligent man, and is considered one of the best physicians in the township.
Transcribed from History of Labette County, Kansas and its Representative Citizens, ed. & comp. by Hon. Nelson Case. Pub. by Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. 1901