General Notes

The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 8 Apr 1999, by Todd Farmerie:

From: Todd A. Farmerie (taf2@@po.cwru.edu)
Subject: Re: Still more Hugh de Lusignan
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 1999/04/08

> Almodis b.ca. 990
>
>   m1. 1044/5 Pons of Toulous d. 1060  (several children)
>   m2. 1053 Raymond I Bernger
>   m3. Hugh V de Lusignan  d. 1060  son Hugh VI b. ca. 1050 (latter date
> according to Lusignan list recently provided by Gen-Med listers.)

She m1 Hugh, m2 Pons, m3 Ramon B.

> Plenty of problems here. First we have Almodis marrying for the first time
> at age 54/5 and having several children. Then we have her marrying for the
> 2nd time in 1053, age 63, while her first husband is still living. Then
> she marries for a third time, year unknown, presumedly now in her late
> 60s, but has a son born to husband three in 1050 while still married to
> husband two...

First of all, that ca. 990 birthdate is just wrong.  As to remarrying while her former husband was still living, yes, she did that, twice, and it raised a few eyebrows at the time.

> Whoever Paget is, he is stumbling badly thru his chronology.

Assuming that he was the source for the chronology, which is not certain.

taf