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From: "Peter Stewart" < >
Subject: Re: Wife of Alfonso de La Cerda, Infant of Castile (~1270-aft.1334) - CPB by Thierry Le Hête
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:11:13 GMT
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> In Leo's Genealogics, Alfonso is married to Mafalda|Mahaut|Mathilde
> de Narbonne, Dame de Lunel, dau. of Aimeri IV|VI vct.de Narbonne
> and Sibylle de Foix. Leo's source is ES. The same can be found in
> gen-euweb and in Paul Theroff.
>
> However, in Genea Portugal, Alfonso is married to Matilde de
> Brienne * ca.1273 dau.of Jean I de Brienne, ct.d'EU and Blanche of
> France. http://genealogia.netopia.pt/pessoas/pes_show.php?id=436
> and the same is found in some other sites, one of them semi-official
> of Spanish Tourism
> http://www.nuevoportal.com/andando/pueblos/extrema/badajoz/valverdeburgu.html
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> But my doubt arises from Genea Portugal's source, "Les Comtes
> Palatins de Bourgogne" by Thierry Le Hte, edited by the author, 1st.
> ed. La Bonneville-sur-Iton, 1995, pg. 220.
> It is a recent book and so it might reflect new research.
> I have never heard of M. Le Hte, but then my knowlege in this area is
> very close to none. I would appreciate any information on the
> credibility of M. Le Hte and his book and also the confirmation of
> Alfonso's wife identity, Narbonne or Brienne.
Thierry Le Hte's book cited above was compiled with a bit more enthusiasm
than expertise, but like all genealogists he is only as good as the sources
he used. There were at least three issues of errata & addenda following
publication in 1995, with assistance from Edouard de Saint-Phalle who is
more familiar with primary sources.
In this question Thierry Le Hte did not need correcting. As explained in a
note on p. 228, David Masnata y de Quesada (in _La casa real de La Cerda_)
demonstrated that Alfonso was married to Mathilde de Brienne, and not to
Mathilde de Narbonne as had been stated by Luis de Salazar y Castro in the
17th century. There was no such person as "Mathilde de Lunel" either, given
by some genealogists, as that lineage was extinct before Alfonso's time and
he received the seigneury of Lunel directly as a gift from Charles IV.
Without checking today, I'm pretty sure that Alfonso's wife Mathilde is
given correctly in the Brienne pedigree in ES III/4.
Peter Stewart
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