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From: "Peter Stewart" < >
Subject: Re: Edward The Elder to Robert The Pious
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:49:25 GMT
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"Guy Vincent" < > wrote in message
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> Jim Weber's site shows Edward the Elder and Aelflaed having a
> daughter, Emliane Aelgiva who married Ebles Count of Poitou,
> they in turn having a son, Guillaume III Duke of Aquitaine.
> Other sites show a similar path with the daughter of Edward the
> Elder being called Elgiva. However, I can find nothing to support
> this using the consanguinous kin entries on the PASE database
> nor does Leo's site follow this line. Does anyone know if this
> line is correct?
The origin of Emiliana is unknown, and the link to Edward the Elder was an
error of the 16th/17th century historian Jean Besly, who confused the wives
of Ebles and his son & misinterpreted William of Malmesbury to reach this
particular false conclusion.
There is not a certain line from her husband Ebles to Robert the Pious
anyway - this is commonly traced through the latter's mother Adelaide,
allegedly a daughter of Duke Guillaume III, but you will find discussions in
the SGM archive casting doubt on her filiation.
Peter Stewart
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