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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Re: deCOURTNEY
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 15:08:46 -0400
Alan B. Wilson wrote:
>
> In article < >, (ED
> MANN) wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > 3 Adele de France ref #: (Ä48-18)
> > +[33] King Robert I de Paris 866 - 923 ref #: Ä48-18
> > 4 [34] Hildebrande de Neustria Abt. 887 - Aft. 930/31
> ref #: Ä48-19
> > +[35] Herbert II de Vermandois Abt. 885 - 942/43
> ref #: Ä50-18
>
> [snip]
> >
> > Regards, Ed Mann mailto:
> >
> > References:
> > Ä = Weis, _Ancestral_Roots_, 7th ed.
>
> Weis 48:18, to which you refer, gives no parentage for "Aelis", wife
> of Robert I and mother of Liegarde/Hildebrante. Neither does ES ii, 10.
> Moriarty, p. 9, gives the name "Beatrice", with no origins. Settipani in
> "La prehistoire des Capetiens," p. 406, gives her no name or origin.
>
> It is Stuart in "Royalty for Commoners", line 259, who makes the wife
> of Robert I a daughter of Louis I "the Pious" and Ermengarde of Hesbaye.
> (Notice that Stuart refers to Moriarty p. 9.) However Louis "the Pious"
> and Ermengarde have no such daughter shown in ES i, 2, or in Settipani,
> op. cit., pp. 255-256.
>
> I do not see how we can say anything about the origins of the wife of
> Robert I from these sources.
>
Vajay has suggested that she was daughter of Louis the German. This
appears to have been based solely on the name Emma (Louis's wife,
Robert's daughter), and thus doesn't carry much weight. Most reliable
sources leave her parentage unassigned.
ta
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