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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: STEPHANIE- wife of WILLIAM I OF BURGUNDY
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:23:56 -0400


Jae Fleming wrote:
>
> I have Etienne de Longwy as the daughter of Clemence de Foix, daughter of
> Bernard Roger, Count of Conserans & Bigorre -- but no father of Etienne
> listed. Is there any certainty regarding Clemence as her mother?
>

For some reason your source has chosen only to show half of the
information, because the Clemence of Foix is a hypothetical construct of
Vajay's from the same article that identifies her Longwy father. The
argument for this lineage is in the name Clemence. This name seems to
appear in a clustering among Stephanie/Etiennette's descendants, while
it also appears among the Bigorre/Foix/Carcassonne family. This, and
the attested kinship with the Dukes of Burgundy, which seem to descend
from the Barcelona counts (who descend from Bernard Roger's sister) led
Vajay to suggest that she was Bernard Roger's daughter, and was named
Clemence (a name oddly missing from that generation). However good he
is at it, much of Vajay's work is hypothetical, and tends to be given
too much weight.

ta

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