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7 - Consanguinity and the Saint-Aubin Genealogies

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Around the turn of the century, René Poupardin, working in the Vatican archives, came across a page of a manuscript in the collection of Queen Christina which contained several genealogies pertaining to the counts and dukes of north-western France. An incomplete note at the bottom of the manuscript page indicates that it was drawn up at the monastery of Saint-Aubin d'Angers. This page was bound together with a wide variety of other documents, ranging from astrological tracts to letters to fragments of various histories. On paleographic grounds, the manuscript page with the genealogies can be dated to the eleventh century, but it does not appear to have any connection with the other documents bound in the manuscript. In 1900 Poupardin published the genealogies with a brief commentary.

In that commentary, Poupardin made a tentative assessment of the page, and came to two conclusions. First, he assigned to this document a date between 1066 and 1080. Second, he concluded that the genealogies had been drawn up ‘at the moment when the two sons of the Count of Château-Landon, Geoffrey the Bearded and Fulk le Réchin, succeeded their maternal uncle, Geoffrey Martel, the last of the Ingelgerien dynasty, in the County of Anjou.’ He was suggesting that the purpose of these genealogies was to demonstrate how the new dynasty of Angevin counts was connected with the previous dynasty, as well as with various neighboring ruling families.

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The Haskins Society Journal 14
2003. Studies in Medieval History
, pp. 105 - 116
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2005

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