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From: Nathaniel Taylor <>
Subject: Re: Adelaide, sister or half-sister to William I
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 02:08:30 GMT
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In article <>,
"Todd A. Farmerie" <> wrote:

>Nathaniel Taylor wrote:
>> In article <>,
>> "Todd A. Farmerie" <> wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>
>I was aware that this claim had been made (it also appeared,
>IIRC, in one or more versions of Ancestral Roots). Somewhere I
>saw a recent discussion of the question which convinced me that
>the more traditional solution is correct. Unfortunately, I can't
>recall where. (I was thinking it might be in Murray's work on
>the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, but I do not find it there.)
>
>Anyone?

Worth unearthing. What does Dave have to say?

Nat Taylor

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