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From: "Chris Leonard" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Arnaud Family
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:28:37 -0700


please, what were the Spanish Marches?

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>Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Arnaud Family
>Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2000, 11:41 AM
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> P. S. The family has it's origins in the Langedoc. region of Southern France.
> There is a small village, Arnaud, that must have been granted to the family
> in the early 1100s. The Arnaud family, originally came into France with
> Charlemagnes ancestors. No doubt that they were fighters and given lands on
> what was the frontiers of the empire to help settle and protect the northern
> reaches of the empire from attacks from across the Spanish Marches and from
> the Moors, who were still in Spain at that time, if my history doesn't fail
> me.
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