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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" < >
Subject: Re: MOTHER OF ADELIZA (ALICE) de TOENI
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:13:48 -0500


wrote:
>
> Adeliza (Alice) de Toeni was the daughter of Roger de Toeni (990-1038) and
> which wife?
> Wife # 1: Adele Borell de Barcelona, daughter of Ramon Borrell, Count of
> Barcelona
> OR
> Wife # 2: Godeheut (Godehilde) 995-AFT. 1077
>

This remains difficult. (The following is from memory, but should give
you some idea of the problem.) Roger was exiled, and ended up
"crusading" in and around Barcelona. Sources from that area report that
he married a (unnamed) daughter of the countess of Barcelona (widow of
Ramon Borrell). Norman sources only show him married to a Godeheut, who
as his widow remarried. What gives then? Was Adele his first wife and
Godeheut his second? Was Godeheut the norman name for the Barcelona
princess? Is the Barcelona search wrong in stating that they married?
Helpful in solving the question would appear to be Berenger Hispina de
Toeny. I think it safe to conclude that he owed his name to this
marriage (and I have often wondered if Hispina wasn't a garbled 'of
Spain'). Unfortunately, his parentage is also in question. A recent
account of the Tosny family showed him as son of Roger and Adelaide, but
Evans, in his paper of Todeny de Belvoir showed him as belonging to that
branch, and suggested that a second Toeny married down south.
Keats-Rohan seems to accept the marriage, and that Adelaide was mother
of Roger's children, but I will have to go back and reread the details
to be more precise on her views.

ta

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