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From: Stewart Baldwin< >
Subject: Re: wife of Odoacre/Odoacer, Count of Flanders
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 01:33:10 GMT


(Richard Borthwick) wrote:

>Chaume (in his *Les origines du Duche de Bourgogne* I) for a much earlier
>period (C7-8th) tentatively suggests that two persons with the name
>'Baldwin' or its variants were connected to a clan with the leading name
>'Autchar' (variants: Odocar, Otger, Ottaker, Authari ..etc.). Neither of
>these, from what I can recall, was Baldwin I of Flanders.

[snip]

Could you provide more details? Baldwin I of Flanders is the earliest
bearer of that name of whom I am aware, and if there were earlier
individuals who bore that name, I would certainly be interested in
knowing who they were (for a reason that you can probably guess).

Stewart Baldwin

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