Countess Plaisance was an independently wealthy Lebanese Countess who inherited lands across Lebanon and Israel from her parents.
Tag: Europe
At the limits of documented history, Gauslin of Maine is my 32nd x great-grand-father. Information is sparse because few records still exist.
There is almost no information about Count Berengar’s wife. She is simply known as someone’s daughter and someone else’s wife.
Father to the Viking Rollo, Ragnvild conquered Scotland, had ugly children, and was an Earl in Norway.
Otto was the son of the King of Italy, yet lived in France. Kidnapped and saved, he warred with the King of France, inherited other titles and made a nuisance of himself.
As the daughter of a French or, possibly, an Arabic lord, there is little in recorded history about Orgueilleuse or her mysterious family.
Constance inherited titles and, in theory, power but other people controlled her life. She also was kidnapped and forced to marry Raymond of Antioch.
She is one of my maternal 22 x great-grandmothers.
Theobald I, known as the Trickster, was a vassal of 10th Century West Frankish King Lothair. He is one of my maternal 27 x great-grandfathers.
Ermengarde was the wife of Louis I, Emperor of the West.
She is my 32 x great-grandmother.
Pepin was Italian nobility who took sides in the War of Carolingian succession. He is my 30 x great-grandfather.