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From: "Peter Stewart" < >
Subject: Re: Early Welfs and Azzo II
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:27:25 GMT
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"mike" < > wrote in message
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> is there an accepted line of descent between Welf I father of Judith &
> Welf II (d.1035)?
Accepted maybe, but there are links in the chain of descent that are not
proven by direct evidence.
> Also what is the evidence often quoted in the archives that Azzo II
> of Este (d.1097) was born in 997?
In 996 or 997 - Bernold of Constance, a contemporary chronicler, wrote that
Duke Welf's father Azzo died in 1097 reputedly aged over 100 ("Azzo marchio
de Longobardia, pater Welfonis ducis de Baiowaria, iam maior centenario ut
aiunt, viam universae terrae arripuit"). From memory this is corroborated by
a description of him as almost 100 when he was at Pavia with Clement III
early in 1096.
Peter Stewart
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