• General Notes

  [MARSHALL.FTW]
  
  SOURCE NOTES:
  Borthwick, Richard, Aupais, posting to GEN-MEDIEVAL May 29, 1998.  Author
  address rgbor@@cyllene.uwa.edu.au.
  
  Moriarty, George Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen
  Philippa.  Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985.  LDS
  Film#0441438.  nypl#ARF-86-2555.
  
  Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Euroopaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte
  der europaischen Staaten, New Series, Marburg: J.A. Stargardt, 1978-.
  
  Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
  Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.
  RESEARCH NOTES:
  became Abbess of St. Peters, Rheims [Ref: Moriarty p22]
  
  she is ften called a natural daughter of the Emperor Louis the Pious, but
  other authorities style her as a natural daughter of Charlemagne, which
  is undoubtedly, for chronological reasons, correct. [Ref: Moriarty p23]
  
  There are two positions on Alpais' origins and largely they depend on how one
  interprets the following passage from the Monor Lorsch Annals (Codex
  Fuldensis) for 816 (MGH SS 1): "Picco, primis de amicis regis, qui et filiam
  imperatoris [*] duxit [duxerat] uxorem, defunctus est."  The Hildesheim Annals
  repeat this but insert at [*] the words "nomine Elpheid".  A fairly literal
  translation is: "Bego/Biggo, first amongst the kings friends, who [had] also
  married the emperor's daughter [by name Elpheid], died."  The question is
  whether '... imperatoris ...' refers to the 816 emperor (i.e. the current one,
  Louis the Pious) or to the previous one (Charlemagne).
    Flodoard in his history of the church of Reims says that Alpais was the
  daughter of Louis.  But Flodoard (writing very much later, in the c10th) would
  appear to be using the Lorsch/Hildesheim annals, making the reference of
  '..imperatoris..' to be Louis the Pious who was indeed emperor in 816.  This
  does not settle the matter since Flodoard (who is usually very reliable) may
  have made a not unreasonable but nevertheless wrong identification.  Count
  Bego (before his brief time as count of Paris) had a career in southern France
  during Louis the Pious' time as king of Aquitaine. Since Bego married while
  Charlemagne reigned (but probably before he bacame emperor in 800) the
  reference of 'regis' in the Lorsch Annals quoted aboe is thus to Louis as king
  of Aquitaine and 'imperatoris' is to Charlemagne.  Whether Alpais is the
  daughter of Charlemagne or of his son thus turns on how one critically
  interprets Flodoard.  [Ref: Richard Borthwick 5/29/1998]
  SOURCE NOTES:
  parents: [Ref: ES I #2]
  RESEARCH NOTES:
  father: Charlemagne [Ref: Moriarty p22, Weis AR #191]

Details of Aupals' family with Begue Count Of Paris