Adelaide d'Auvergne, Countess Carcassone

Family/Spouse: Aznar III de Comminges. Aznar (son of Aznar de Comminges, Count II) was born in 860 in Comminges, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France; died in 900 in Commignes, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Count of Comminges Asinarius de Comminges was born in 880 in Comminges, Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died in 940 in Commignes, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France.

Bernard married Ermengarde de Chalons in 866 in Auvergne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. Ermengarde (daughter of Count of Chalons Guerin and Avane) was born in 843 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died in Jun 881 in Auvergne, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bernard de Septimania
• Birth: 805
• Death: 844; Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Notes:

Died:
Aachen, Aachener Stadtkreis, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Bernard married Dhuoda de Gascogne on 25 Jun 824 in Aachen, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Dhuoda (daughter of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Regina (Reginophychra)) was born about 804 in Gascoigne, Aquitaine, France; died on 2 Feb 842 in Uzès, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guerin married Avane about 822 in Chalons, Seine-et-Loire, France. Avane was born about 804 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Baghdad, and secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory derives from Arthur Zuckerman's book, "A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900" (New York, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by all historians. Regardless, William was a very impressive individual about whom the largest body of heroic poetry in medieval France, the "Saint William cycle" of chansons de geste, developed in the centuries following his death. According to Pierre Béstournas d`Haucourt in "Heraldique ett Genealogie, 1981, p.363: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse, later monk at Gellone, canonized as St. William of the Desert (St. Guilhem du Désert),, * ca. 752, +8112. The remains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert) were transported to Neww York and re-built in the Cloisters complex of the Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier the 20th century. Additionally, David H. Kelley identifies him as the exilarch Natronai, both are questionable, especially in view of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and it's genealogical records in 70 CE. Although it should be noted that Charlemagne did bring back a Jewish official to Germany and this is supposed to be the father of Guillaume.

Randy Jones identifies his father as Thierry or Theuderic d'Autun and his mother as Alda de Francia. There is no supporting evidence for this, so I am going with the limited data as above and that of the Endfield-Bryant Genealogy. JCT 12/23/2000

Guillaume married Guitberge de Hornbach. Guitberge (daughter of Lambert, daughter of Lambert von Hornbach) was born in Hornbach, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany; died in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Witburge (Guitberge) de Herbauges
• Birth: Abt 770, France
• Death: Aft 800, Germany

Notes:

Buried:
Aachen Cathedral

Charlemagne married Regina (Reginophychra) about 791. Regina was born about 770 in of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]