Adela of Austrasia?
ste...@baldar.clark.net
The last person who worked on our family history left me
a stack of fragmentary "trees," including:
Dagobert II, d. 679
had: Adela of Austrasia married? and had: Aubrey of Blois,
born after 700.
It appears that this fragment will eventually link up with
Giselbert of Lorraine, d. 939. There is a lot of digging to be done
to unscramble the intervening generations, but my question today
is, has anyone else found a source for Dagobert's daughter Adela?
Would she be a daughter of Gizela of Razes? I recall reading that
Dagobert's first wife was Irish, but that's all I know. And who
might Adela's husband be? Thanks in advance for your help,
Judith Sanders
Who needs "Melrose Place" when you can read about Merovingians!
Alan B. Wilson
inquired about a descent from Dagobart II though Adele of
Austrasia and Aubry of Blois which appears to link to Giselbert
of Lorraine, d. 939.
Weis, Ancestral Roots, line 240, has the following:
1. Dagobert II of Austrasia King (652 - 678)
& Mechtilde
2. Adela of Austrasia (About 670 - )
3. Aubri I of Blois Count (Circa 700 - )
4. Aubri II of Blois Count (About 730 - )
5. Theidlindis of Blois (About 770 - After 795)
& Gainfroi of Sens Count (About 765 - )
6. Giselbert in the Massgau Count (Circa 795 - )
7. Giselbert of Darnau Count (Circa 825 - )
& Ermengarde of Italy (Circa 830 - )
8. Regnier I of Lorraine ? Duke (Circa 850 - 916)
& Alberade of Lorraine (Circa 860 - )
9. Giselbert of Lorraine Duke (Circa 890 - 2 Oct 939)
& Gerberge of Saxony (913/914 - 5 May 984)
This also appears in Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, lines 303 and 207.
Schwennicke (ed.), Europaische Stammtafeln, i, 1,
provides the name "Mechtilde" as wife of Dagobert II, and, in
note 9, lists a daughter, "Adela," who became a nun.
Alan B. Wilson
abwi...@uclink2.berkeley.edu
Nathaniel Lane Taylor
<GEN-ME...@mail.eworld.com> wrote:
> On 22 Jan Judith Sanders, "ste...@baldar.clark.net,"
> inquired about a descent from Dagobart II though Adele of
> Austrasia and Aubry of Blois which appears to link to Giselbert
> of Lorraine, d. 939.
>
> Weis, Ancestral Roots, line 240, has the following:
>
> 1. Dagobert II of Austrasia King (652 - 678)
> [snip]
> 9. Giselbert of Lorraine Duke (Circa 890 - 2 Oct 939)
> & Gerberge of Saxony (913/914 - 5 May 984)
>
> This also appears in Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, lines 303 and 207.
>
> Schwennicke (ed.), Europaische Stammtafeln, i, 1,
> provides the name "Mechtilde" as wife of Dagobert II, and, in
> note 9, lists a daughter, "Adela," who became a nun.
Please, people, there are no scholarly-accepted descents from the
Merovingian kings to the present day (or to turn-of-the millennium
nobility at all). For the best-documented accounts of their known
descendants, with some discussion (and bibliography) of alleged descents
to later people (in the footnotes at relevant sections) see Christian
Settipani's _La prehistoire des Capetiens_ [Vol. 1, part 1. of the
_Nouvelle hisoire genealogique de l'auguste maison de France_ or some such
title], published by Patrick Van Kerrebrouck, Villeneuve de l'Asq
(spelling?) France. It is available in major university librarys and
should be accessible through interlibrary loan. I have discovered that it
is near impossible to buy directly... No one should have "Merovingian
lines" in their databases without first examining this book, its enormous
footnotes and bibliography, first.
Nat Taylor