Hildegarde

• Birth: 0964/0974
• Death: 1 APR 1040, Jerusalem, Palestine

• Reference: 1259

• Marriage: AFT 1000, Anjou, France

1. Ermengarde of Anjou

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Notes

Bernard Bachrach, in his book *Fulk Nerra*, 1993, has on p 100:

"Fulk's vigorous activities following his return from the Holy Land were

highlighted by his marriage to Hildegarde, an *illusta puella* from

Lorraine who was descended from royalty."

To this, he has a footnote on p 318: "*Cartul. du Ronceray*, no. 173,

provides the documentary evidence for Hildegarde's royal birth. The

veracity of this text is unchallenged: e.g., Halphen, *Le comte' d'Anjou*,

11, n. 1. Thus far, however, no one has been able to trace her immediate

family with any certitude. See the literature cited by Bachrach, "Origins

of Countess Gerberga," 14-15, n. 11."

The last part is evidently a reference to his article cited in his

bibliography, "Some Observations on the Origins of Countess Gerberga of

the Angevins: An Essay in the Application of the Tellenbach-Werner

Prosopographyical Method.", *Medieval Prosopography 7*, no. 2 (1986):

1-23.

Bachrach says on p 100: "King Robert's diplomatic exchanges with the

Germans, of which the Meuse meeting is the best documented, are likely

to have prompted his interest in Hildegarde. More to the point, Fulk

needed a wife who could provide a male heir and his choice of a woman

from a prominent family in Lorraine might perhaps be seen to have had a

diplomatic and strategic purpose as well, which could be threatened by

Fulk's in-laws if the count of Blois chose to mount military operation

against the Angevin count in the west."

In the previous paragraph, Bachrach seems to be assuming without

question that Hildegarde is from Lorraine, although as he says in the

footnote, her "immediate family" hasn't been determined (as of 1993, to

the best of Bachrach's knowledge).