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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Re: Matilda of Mayenne
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 13:45:48 -0500
MTaHT wrote:
>
> Dear Ed:
>
> You seem to favor Mathilde de Turenne over Mathilde de Mayenne as the wife of
> Hugues 2 duc de Bougogne.
>
> There's been a lot written on this conflict, but I'm still undecided
> (confused?). What are the reasons for your choice?
After two years of promising to to it, I finally looked up the critical
article. Having refressed my memory, I must revise what I posted
yesterday. It is:
J. Richard. Sur les alliances familiales des ducs de Bourgogne aux XIIe
et XIIIe siecles. Annales de Bourgogne 30:37-46 (1958).
In this article he addresses several Burgundy wives, but relevant to
this quesion, he documents that Matilda was called in three contemporary
charters called Mathildis de Meduana or Mathildis de Magne. There are a
couple of chateau with this name, but the obvious conclusion is that the
bride was from the County of Mayenne. The necrology of Beaune names the
mother of Duchess Matilda as Aelina. As this matches the name of Aline,
wife of Walter, Count of Mayenne in the immediately prior generation, it
is then reasonable to conclude that Matilda was de Mayenne, daughte rof
Walter and Aline.
Apparently the Turenne identification was a hypothesis of Chaume based
on the passage of the name Raymond into the Burgundian house, but such
suppositions cannot stand in the face of the documentation that we have
consistant with the Mayenne connection.
ta
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