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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE AHNENREIHE
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 06:57:22 -1000


> >My understanding is that Robert I 'le Vieux" de Bourgogne married
> >Ermengarde about 1048 and Hildegarde was born about 1050. Further, my
> >understanding is that Robert I "le Vieux" had married Helie de
> >Semur-en-Brionnais about 1033 but divorced, and in fact "disowned
> >her"---[why I do not know] in 1046. Helie was allegedly the mother of all
> >his other legitimate children before Hildegarde was born. Does all this
> >show in *Stammtafeln*? [You seem to be using the Schwennicke version or the
> >von Loringhoven revision?] [DSH]
> >
> Yes. {Alan B. Wilson]

Can anyone shed light on why Robert I 'le Vieux' de Bourgogne "disowned"
and divorced Helie de Semur-en-Brionnais in 1046?

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D. Spencer Hines---"Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomini Tuo da
gloriam, propter misericordiam Tuam et veritatem Tuam." Henry V,
[1387-1422] King of England---Ordered it to be sung by his prelates and
chaplains---after the Battle of Agincourt, 25 Oct 1415,---while every
able-bodied man in his victorious army knelt, on the ground. [Psalm CXV,
Verse I]

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