The identity of Baldwin's father as one "Odoacer" is supported only byt
wo notices in a minor set of Flemish annals (the _Annales Blandinienses
_, MGH SS 5:20-34) of eleventh-century confection; nothing further is kno
wn of this person (nor of his wife). His attribution as a count of Herleb
ec comes only from the twelfth-century genealogical MS of St.-Bertin (M
GH SS 9:305), which also adds *his* father Ingelrannus and grandfather Lid
ric, "count of Herlebec" (also attested only in the _Annales Blandinienses
_). These individuals are only attested in these relatively late sources--
the eleventh-century annals and the twelfth-century genealogy. In neithe
r, however, does the death date you assign for Odoacer appear.
The identity of Baldwin's father as one "Odoacer" is supported only by t
wo notices in a minor set of Flemish annals (the _Annales Blandinienses
_, MGH SS 5:20-34) of eleventh-century confection; nothing further is kno
wn of this person (nor of his wife). His attribution as a count of Herleb
ec comes only from the twelfth-century genealogical MS of St.-Bertin (M
GH SS 9:305), which also adds *his* father Ingelrannus and grandfather Lid
ric, "count of Herlebec" (also attested only in the _Annales Blandinienses
_). These individuals are only attested in these relatively late sources--
the eleventh-century annals and the twelfth-century genealogy. In neithe
r, however, does the death date you assign for Odoacer appear.