Re: Charlemagne connection to Harding Family
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Charlemagne connection to Harding Family
Bradley Marchant 4/03/00
I cannot help your directly, but I amy be able to give your some history that can help you search further.
The Harding surname is Danish and is of Viking origin, it means Hard One a bame bestowed as an honour on some one who distinguished himself in battle. The appearanc of the bame in England is well documented as a matter of historical record. the first Harding in England is listed in the Anglo Saxon chronicles between the years 1000 and 1100. He was named Eadnoth Harding (a name he earned) and was the younegr brother of the Danish English King, probably King Knut (Canute). He was Master of the Horse under the King who died of natural causes, then under King Harald of Norway also King of England and then under King William the Conqueror. Master of the horse meant he was leader of the King's mounted army. The fact he retained that position under three Kings is probably because he was politically powerful and secondly because these Kings we all form the one Viking family disputing the rights of succession, he was probably a family member. Charlemagne was a German/FranK emperor I believe about two centuries earlier who would have been aligned with the Viking who settled western France (Normanby - as in Norse Man) Charlemagne himself came from what is now Germany and moved into what is now France. It would be highly likey that his noble family and the Danish Royal family intermarried and were basically from the same extended political alliance and Northern European people.
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