Abstract
This chapter argues that medieval genealogies are not representations of “blood” connections per se, but functioned as eschatological maps of divine plans and promises. It derives an indigenous conception of genealogy from exegetical works on biblical genealogies, which also inspired the descending form of medieval genealogies. Biblical genealogies also structured medieval historiography, which traced the salvation of history through a lattice of genealogies connected to Jesus’s genealogy. The chapter shows that the genealogies of royal and princely figures in Carolingian Europe, Flanders, and in Lambert of St. Omer’s Liber Floridus were devised to discern the divinely ordained direction of history as Frankish Europe drifted into a conglomerate of kingdoms and principalities between the tenth and the twelfth centuries.
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