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SOURCE NOTES:
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.

Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of
Wales. London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1977. Nypl ARF+ 78-835.

Parsons, John, Hildegard of Metz, posting to GEN-MEDIEVAL Feb 11 1999, author
address jparsons@@chass.utoronto.ca.

Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Euroopaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte
der europaischen Staaten, New Series, Marburg: J.A. Stargardt, 1978-.

Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John
Johnson, 1928. LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9.

Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.

Wilson, Alan B, Ancestry of Henry II, posting to GEN-MEDIEVAL Mar 27 1997,
author address abwilson@@uclink2.berkeley.edu.
RESEARCH NOTES:
called Hildegarde of Lotharingia [Ref: Wilson 3/27/97]
called Hildegarde of Metz [Ref: ES II #20]

The most recent statement on Hildegarde's ancestry is to be found in Christian
Settipani's article on the counts of Anjou and their marriages which appears
in the volume edited by Keats-Rohan, _Family Trees and the Roots of Politics:
The prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth Century to the Twelfth
Century_ (Boydell, 1997).
On pp. 253-54, Settipani discusses the lack of secure evidence for
Hildegarde's family. The only reliable statement comes from a charter for the
abbey of La Ronceray, which states that she came from Lotharingia and was of
royal descent. An 1887 work by Loizeau de Grandmaison took this to mean that
she belonged to the family of the counts of Nordgau, though there is no
documentary proof of this. Bernard Bachrach however thought that she might be
identified with the Hildegarde who is known as a sister of Pope Leo IX,
himself a member of the Nordgau family. Unfortunately we also know that that
Hildegarde married a count of Montbeliard, which puts her out of the running
as a possible countess of Anjou. As Settipani notes, moreover, a sister of
Leo IX, who was born in 1002, would have been extremely young at her
(supposed) marriage to Fulk of Anjou around 1000.
Settipani accepts, however, the likelihood that Hildegarde was in some way
related to the counts of Nordgau, the only family of that region that was of
sufficient eminence, and royal ancestry, to marry into the rising and powerful
house of Anjou. The name Hildegarde was common among the Nordgau house,
moreover, and they certainly had royal blood. Assuming Hildegarde was born
around 985, he theorizes she might have been a first cousin of Leo IX,
possibly a daughter of Leo's uncle Eberhard though there is no proof of that
filiation and Settipani scrupulously leaves it as a "working hypothesis."
[Ref: John Parsons 2/11/99]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: abt 964/974 [Ref: Wilson 3/27/97]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: [Ref: Watney #9, Weis AR #118] Apr 1 1046 [Ref: Moriarty p4, Paget
p140], place: [Ref: Moriarty p4, Weis AR #118]