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From: Nathaniel Taylor <>
Subject: Re: Adelaide, sister or half-sister to William I
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:51:17 GMT
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In article <>,
"Todd A. Farmerie" <> wrote:

>Penelope Edwards wrote:
>> Dear Newsgroup,
>>
>> I am trying to ascertain whether Adelaide was sister or half-sister to
>> William I, and who were the parents of Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon?
>>
>> Some sources state that Adelaide married Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon (beh.
>> 1075) and had a daughter, Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon.
>>
>> Other sources state that it was Judith (daughter of Adelaide) who married
>> Earl Waltheof and had a daughter, Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon.
>
>Waltheof married Judith, daughter of Adelaide by her second
>husband, Lambert of Lens, a younger brother of Eustace II of
>Boulogne.

But--Dave Greene (in "The Royal Ancestry of the Ipswich (Massachusetts)
and Long Island Lawrence Families," _The Genealogist_ 10 [1989--printed
1994], 3-29) isn't the first to have engaged the disputed paternity of
Adelaide's daughter Judith. He cites a discussion in Catherine Morton
and Hope Mutz, ed., _Carmen de Hastingae Proelio_ (Oxford, 1972),
126-28, which argues for paternity by Enguerrand of Ponthieu, and
against any marriage at all between Adeliza and Lambert of Lens.

Nat Taylor

http://home.earthlink.net/~nathanieltaylor/

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