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From: Don Stone < >
Subject: Re: Charlemagne
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 05:27:39 GMT
Tom Camfield - - recently wrote:
> Meanwhile, I also have another descent that has been provided me,
> which comes down from Charlie the Great to Adelaide, wife of Hugh
> Capet (son of Hugh the Great)...
> I don't vouch for it and can cite no references. It is:
> --Charlegmagne
> --Louis the Pious/Debonaire = Irmengard of Hesbain
> --Hildegard = Gerard, Count of Auvergne
> --Ramnulf I, Count of Poitou = daughter of Rorgo, Count of Maine
> --Ramnulf II, Count of Poitou
> --Ebalus Manzer, the Bastard, Count of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine
> --William I (Towhead), Count and Duke = a daughter of Rollo
> --Adelaide = Hugh Capet (also descended from Charlemagne via Pepin).
F. Lot proposed some years ago that Adelaide, wife of Hugh Capet, was
from Poitou/Aquitaine, but Constance Bouchard ("Consanguinity and Noble
Marriages in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries," Speculum 56 (1981): 268-
287, note 17) argues persuasively that there is no convincing primary
evidence supporting this and that there is good reason for believing
that Adelaide was not related to the dukes of Aquitaine, namely, the
marriage of Hildegard of Burgundy (great-granddaughter of Hugh and
Adelaide) to William VI (VIII), Count of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine, a
marriage which would have been consanguineous within three degrees if
Adelaide were the daughter of William I (III), Count of Poitou, Duke of
Aquitaine.
-- Don Stone
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