Christian Settipani (born January 31, 1961) is the Technical Director of an IT company in the Paris area. January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

Passionate about genealogy, he has specialised in the ancestry of early Middle Ages people and earlier. His work is much quoted by genealogists searching for the elusive Descent from antiquity (DFA). Descent from antiquity is an ultimate challenge in prosopography and genealogy, the idea of establishing a well-researched, generation by generation descent of living persons from people acting in antiquity. ...

Publications

These are originally published in French, although some English translations have been produced, and include:

(French)

• Les ancêtres de Charlemagne, 1989
• Nos ancêtres de l'Antiquité, 1991
• Christian Settipani, La préhistoire des Capétiens, 1993
• Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000
• Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, 2000, en collaboration avec K.S.B. Keats-Rohan
• La noblesse du Midi Carolingien, 2004

Dr Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan is a history researcher at the University of Oxford specialising in prosopography. ...

Source

(French)

• Présentation de Christian Settipani par Jean-Louis BeaucarnotTemplate:French-business-bio-stub