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Subject: Re: STEPHANIE- wife of WILLIAM I OF BURGUNDY
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 02:32:33 +0200
Maybe it's me that have been confused, but is the Stephanie married to William
of Burgundy also supposed to have been married to (or been the mistress of?)
Garcia Sanchez? (See: GEN-MEDIEVAL Archives, Re: The Sancho sons of Garcia IV,
2. Dec. 1996 and Re: Two William of Evreaux? 5. Dec. 1995, both written by Tod.
A. Farmerie. The last showing Estephania as a daughter of Bernard Roger (of
Bigorre?). Or is this a quite different Stephanie?
Svein Arnolf Bjorndal
Todd A. Farmerie wrote:
> 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.
>
> taf
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