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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: AGATHA, WIFE of EDWARD the EXILE
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 03:03:34 -0500


FWIW, with the focus put on the nomenclature in this question, I have
been keeping my eyes open for an 11th century Agatha among the European
families. I found one in the most peculiar place.

The first of many marriages arranged by Alfonso VI of Leon was to an
Agatha, who rather than marry the heathen Spaniard, died before the
union could take place. She was daughter of about the last person I
would have expected to come upon in looking for potential relatives of
the Aetheling's wife, and yet someone intimately familiar with the
goings on of the time . . . William the Conqueror.

Maybe . . . .

No. Back to the drawing board.

ta

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