• General Notes

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  Stephanie de Longwy, b. ca. 1035, liv. 1088, dau. of Adalbert II I, d. 1048, Count de Longwy, Duke of Upper Lorraine, by wife, Cl emence de Foix, dau. of Bernard Rodger, Count of Conserans.
  
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  > Who was the wife of Guillaume Ier de Bourgogne? Two
  > different names are often seen: Etiennette/Stephanie of Barcel ona and
  > Etiennette de Longwy-Metz. Which one is correct?
  
  No one knows.  The sources relating to her parentage are both co nflicting and mutually exclusive.  The two versions that you sho w are two of the theories that have been proposed.  What we KNO W is that her name was Etienette/Estefania/Stephanie (in French/ Spanish/English), that her marriage appears to have brought th e names Raimond and Clemence into the Counts of Burgundy, and th at her son Raimond/Ramon/Raymond was a "cousin" of Henry of Burg undy, brother of Eudes Borel, Duke of Burgundy.  Eudes and Henr y were children of Henry of Burgundy by his wife, whose parentag e is likewise undocumented.  However, the name byname Borel, an d the names Raymond and Clemence appear in the related familie s of the Counts of Barcelona and of Bigorre/Carcassona/Foix, s o this has led to the theory that the "cousinship" between Henr y and Raymond was through this mediterranean connection.  Some t hen make Estefania directly a child of the Count of Barcelona .  More recently, based on a mixture of one of the early account s, political analysis and the appearance of the names Clemence i n the north, Vajay hypothesized that a daughter of the Count o f Bigorre married a Count of Longwy-Metz, and that Estefania Ett ienette was their daughter.  All of this is speculation, withou t direct support, and we are left not being sure.
  
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Details of Stephanie's family with William I "the Great"