Count Berengar’s wife
There is almost no information about Count Berengar’s wife. She is simply known as someone’s daughter and someone else’s wife.
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Category: Ancestors
Ragnvild the Wise
Father to the Viking Rollo, Ragnvild conquered Scotland, had ugly children, and was an Earl in Norway.
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Otto, Count of Maçon
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.
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Orgueilleuse of Harenc
As the daughter of a French or, possibly, an Arabic lord, there is little in recorded history about Orgueilleuse or her mysterious family.
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Constance of Antioch
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.
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Theobald I of Blois
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.
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Ermengarde of Hesbaye
Ermengarde was the wife of Louis I, Emperor of the West.
She is my 32 x great-grandmother.
Pepin the Carolingian
Pepin was Italian nobility who took sides in the War of Carolingian succession. He is my 30 x great-grandfather.
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Bilihildis of Maine
Historical records mention her as the husband of Rorrick, the Count of Maine. Everything I know about her I’ve inferred from her husband’s, or her children’s, lives.
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Bilichildis of Maine
We know little of Ranulf I’s wife. She was the daughter of nobility but the chronicles of the time document little of her.
She is my 30 x great-grandmother.
