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From: Nathaniel Taylor< >
Subject: Re: Gerberga, wife of Foulques II "the Good" of Anjou
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:22:11 -0500


In article < >,
(Alan B. Wilson) wrote:

>7 Aba / Ava.[467, p. 247],[435] Born in 865.[467, p. 247 *] Aba / Ava died
>aft 893; she was 28.[467, p. 247 +] Abbess of Sauxillanges {893}.[467, p.
>247],[233, iii, 731] Nun then abbess at Cluny.[435]
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>435. Taylor, Nathaniel L., Saint William, King David, and Makhir, The
>American Genealogist, lxxii, Jul/Oct 1997, 205-223.

Sigh. This is my mistake, an editing blub (and to my knowledge the only
one of its kind in the published article). This Ava was abess at
Sauxillanges, as Settipani says; she was attested in charters from the
Cluny collection: these points got conflated. After all Cluny, a male
monastery, was founded in 911. Sorry!

As for the relationship to Gerberga, I don't think it's that hot an idea
to render this notion of Settipani's (which I didn't read carefully yet
but which seems to be supported mostly by onomastic coincidences which
aren't all that compelling) into database/ahnentafel form and then post
it. This is how other people's databases get filled with lines which
originated just as speculation.

Nat Taylor

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