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From: Nathaniel Lane Taylor < >
Subject: Re: Adela of Austrasia?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 15:02:26 GMT


In article <v02120d00ad2c01f15369@[136.152.71.59]>, GEN-MEDIEVAL
< > wrote:

> On 22 Jan Judith Sanders, " ,"
> inquired about a descent from Dagobart II though Adele of
> Austrasia and Aubry of Blois which appears to link to Giselbert
> of Lorraine, d. 939.
>
> Weis, Ancestral Roots, line 240, has the following:
>
> 1. Dagobert II of Austrasia King (652 - 678)
> [snip]
> 9. Giselbert of Lorraine Duke (Circa 890 - 2 Oct 939)
> & Gerberge of Saxony (913/914 - 5 May 984)
>
> This also appears in Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, lines 303 and
207.
>
> Schwennicke (ed.), Europaische Stammtafeln, i, 1,
> provides the name "Mechtilde" as wife of Dagobert II, and, in
> note 9, lists a daughter, "Adela," who became a nun.

Please, people, there are no scholarly-accepted descents from the
Merovingian kings to the present day (or to turn-of-the millennium
nobility at all). For the best-documented accounts of their known
descendants, with some discussion (and bibliography) of alleged descents
to later people (in the footnotes at relevant sections) see Christian
Settipani's _La prehistoire des Capetiens_ [Vol. 1, part 1. of the
_Nouvelle hisoire genealogique de l'auguste maison de France_ or some such
title], published by Patrick Van Kerrebrouck, Villeneuve de l'Asq
(spelling?) France. It is available in major university librarys and
should be accessible through interlibrary loan. I have discovered that it
is near impossible to buy directly... No one should have "Merovingian
lines" in their databases without first examining this book, its enormous
footnotes and bibliography, first.

Nat Taylor

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