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From: Nathaniel Taylor< >
Subject: Re: wife of Odoacre/Odoacer, Count of Flanders
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 22:49:28 -0500
In article < >, wrote:
>Odoacre/Odoacer III, Count of Flanders is listed as wife unknown in my
>files. I was wondering if anyone knew who his wife was.
>
>Odoacer
>b. abt. 815
>d. 864
>was also Count of Harlebec
>
>his son was Baldwin, I Count of Flanders...
The identity of Baldwin's father as one "Odoacer" is supported only by two
notices in a minor set of Flemish annals (the _Annales Blandinienses_, MGH
SS 5:20-34) of eleventh-century confection; nothing further is known of
this person (nor of his wife). His attribution as a count of Herlebec
comes only from the twelfth-century genealogical MS of St.-Bertin (MGH SS
9:305), which also adds *his* father Ingelrannus and grandfather Lidric,
"count of Herlebec" (also attested only in the _Annales Blandinienses_).
These individuals are only attested in these relatively late sources--the
eleventh-century annals and the twelfth-century genealogy. In neither,
however, does the death date you assign for Odoacer appear.
Most modern genealogists agree that, without any corroboration, these two
eleventh- and twelfth-century notices of them cannot be taken as proof of
their existence or their relation to count Balduin. Cf. ES 2:5, etc.,
where the line starts with Baldwin.
Nat Taylor
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