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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: William the Conqueror
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:02:03 -0500


Christian Feuillet wrote:
>
> Spencer Hines ask me to post the dates ... going with my ahnentafel of the
> Conqueror. Here it is.
>
> What I have in my file is:
>
[snip]

> 92. Heribert II comte de Vermandois (880/90 - 23 Feb 943)
> 93. Hildebrante/Liegarde de Neustrie (abt 887
> - after Mar 931)

> 186. Robert I roi de France (866 - 15 Jun 923 Soissons)
> 187. Aelis/Adelaide princesse de France ( - before 897)

> 372. Robert I le Fort comte de Paris et de Tours (825
> - 866 Brissarthe)
> 373. Adelaide d'Alsace (840/45 - after 870)
> 374. Louis I le Pieux/le Debonnaire, empereur
> (Aug 778 Casseuil-sur-Garonne - 20 Jun 840 Ingelheim)
> 375. Ermingarde de Hesbaye (abt 778 - 3 Oct 818)
>
>
> I need all critics to make it better.
> BTW, It seems more than strange to me that the daughter of Ermingarde (d.
> 818) could have married a futur king (b. 866). Must be a missing generation
> here, IF the line is valid.

It isn't. The parentage of this first wife of Robert I is entirely
unknown, but any connection to the earlier kings is likely revisionism.

ta

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