St. William of Gellone, count of Toulouse Saint-Guilhem-le-Dsert, Hrault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France View Complete Profile view all 21 Immediate Family Cungonde wife Hribert of Toulouse son Helmbourg de Toulouse son Gerberge de Toulouse daughter Hildehelm de Toulouse son Guicaire de Toulouse son Guibour wife Gaucelme, comte du Roussillon son [434] Vita Hludowici Imperatoris 44 and 45, MGH SS II, p. 633. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Gellone. Sometimes, it is a journey to a shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube was an Old French poet from the Champagne region of France who wrote a number of chansons de geste. "Fredelus advocatus Hildebrandi comitis" is named in a judgment of "Theodericus comes" in a charter dated Mar 818[464]. 2. In 801, William commanded along with Louis, King of Aquitaine a large expedition of Franks, Burgundians, Provenals, Aquitanians, Gascons (Basques) and Goths that captured Barcelona from the Ummayads. Saracen was a term used by Europeans in the Middle Ages for Arabs at first, then later for all who professed the religion of Islam.-Etymology: Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Riny Doyle, "Stamboom Riny Doyle geboren Marinus van Waard", . It was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to the appeal from Byzantineand its immediate aftermath. The previous passage in the Vita records that Orlans was confiscated from Eudes Comte d'Orlans. "Willelmuscomes" names "uxoribus meis Cunegunde et Guitburge" (version two: "Witburg et Cunegunde") in his charter dated 14 Dec 804 (version two : dated 15 Dec 804) for the foundation of the monastery of Gellone[435]. Among his gifts to the abbey he founded was a piece of the True Cross, a present from his cousin Charlemagne, who reportedly wept at his death. He granted property to Gellone and placed the monastery under the perpetual control of the abbots of Aniane. The fictional heroine is first married to Garnier de Nanteuil, who is son of Doon de Nanteuil and grandson of Doon de Mayence. William was born circa 755, in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France. In 804, he founded the abbey in Gellone (now Saint-Guilhem-le-Dsert) near Lodve in the diocese of Maguelonne. Guillaume 1er d'Orange Autun, Rouergue, Quercy, Albi, Duc d'Aquitaine. Theoderic [I] & his wife had [seven] children: 2. William of Gellone ( 755 - 28 May 812 or 814), the medieval William of Orange, was the second Duke of Toulouse from 790 until 811. His life was spent mainly in Italian courts until 1203, when he joined the Fourth Crusade. mentions the story. A troubadour was a composer and performer of Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . In 804, he founded the monastery of Gellone (now Saint-Guilhem-le-Dsert) near Lodve in the diocese of Maguelonne, which he placed under the general control of Benedict of Aniane, whose monastery was nearby. saveTextPlaceholder. In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent suggesting a connection to the knight's mode of transportand with the so-called Matter of Rome. William was born in northern France in the mid-8th century. It is not clear if she married William or was held in concubinage, although he calls her his wife in his will. GAUCELM (-beheaded Chalon-sur-Sane 834). 32, 1903). A possible clue about the origins of Cunigundis is provided by the Vita Hludowici Imperatoris which records the blinding of "Heribertus Bernhardi frater" and his exile with "Hodo consobrinus illius"[434]. iv., 2nd ed., 1882), Raymond Weeks, The newly discovered Chanun de Willame (Chicago, 1904), Antoine Thomas, Etudes romanes (Paris, 1891), on Vivien, Louis Saltet, "S. Vidian de Martres-Tolosanes" in Bull. He met the Muslim forces again near the river Orbieu at Villedaigne but was defeated, though his obstinate resistance exhausted the Muslim forces so much that they retreated to Hispania. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.From the Wikipedia page on St-Guilhelm-le-Desert: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Guilhem-le-D%C3%A9sert. Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. Child (ren): BERTHA de GELLONE 777-810 ROTLINDE de GELLONE 785-820 Notes about WILLIAM de GELLONE He is by some writers also given the title of Duke of Aquitaine. He fought bravely against the Saracens of Spain and became famous as the hero of medieval ballads of knightly prowess and chivalry. A devout Christian who ended his days (died 812 AD) in the monastery at Gellone, he endowed the abbey with a relic of the True Cross, given to him by Charlemagne. The cycle of twenty or more chansons which form the geste of Guillaume reposes on the traditions of the Arab invasions of the south of France, from the battle of Poitiers (732) under Charles Martel onwards, and on the French conquest of Catalonia from the Saracens. This local cycle of epics of Lorraine traditional history, in the late form in which it is now known, includes details evidently drawn from Huon de Bordeaux and Ogier le Danois. Another is included by the Catalan troubadour Guiraut de Cabrera in his humorous poem Ensenhamen. Originally composed around 1192, it was afterwards extended and divided into several branches, Les Enfances Godefroi or "Childhood exploits of Godefroi" tells the story of the youth of Godefroi de Bouillon and his three brothers, La Mort de Godefroi de Bouillon, quite unhistorical, narrates Godefrois poisoning by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Le Btard de Bouillon (early 14th century). He founded the Abbey of Gellone in 804, becoming a monk there in 806. A cantar de gesta is the Spanish equivalent of the Old French medieval chanson de geste or "songs of heroic deeds".The most important cantares de gesta of Castile were: Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 900 to 1300and apparently intended for oral performance by jongleurs, A minstrel was a medieval European bard who performed songs whose lyrics told stories about distant places or about real or imaginary historical events. Rotlinde had 13 siblings: Guilhelm Aquitaine (d'Aquitaine), Aton d' Albi and 11 other siblings. At age 16, he succeeded his father, in the year 481 Aymeri de Narbonne, named for a legendary hero of Old French chansons de geste and the Matter of France. He is the hero of the Chanson de Guillaume, an early chanson de geste, and of several later sequels, which were categorized by thirteenth-century poets as the geste of Garin de Monglane. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.and some of his Imperial. Cycles which deal with an entire country are sometimes referred to as matterswhich revolved around three main characters (see quotation at Matter of France). He amassed an army of 100,000 men, half of which attacked the Kingdom of Asturias while the other half invaded Languedoc, penetrating as far as Narbonne. From the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy page http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANKISH%20NOBILITY.htm#TheodericIA GUILLAUME, son of THEODERIC [I] Comte d'Autun & his wife Aldana --- ([750/55]-Gellone [28 May [812/13]/21 May 815]). So many pilgrims were attracted to Gellone that his corpse was exhumed from the modest site in the narthex and given a more prominent place under the choir, to the intense dissatisfaction of the Abbey of Aniane. In early works, each laisse was made up of assonanced verses, although the appearance of rhymed laisses was increasingly common in later Stanzas are of variable length. Canonised 1066. m firstly CUNIGUNDIS, daughter of ---. The Manual of Dhuoda names (in order) "Willelmus, Chungundis, Gariberga, Vuithbergis, Teddericus, Gothzelmus, Guarnarius, Rothlindis" as relatives of Bernard, husband of Doda, implying that all were deceased at the date the manual was written (843)[432]. His exploits form part of the Doon de Mayence cycle of chansonsor Les Quatre Fils Aymon (end of the 12th century), Raoul de Cambrai is a 12th -13th century French epic poem concerning the eponymous hero's battles to take possession of his fief and of the repercussions from these battles, apparently begun by Bertholais; existing version from end of 12th century, Doon de Mayence was a fictional hero of the Old French chansons de geste, who gives his name to the third cycle of the Charlemagne romances, those dealing with the feudal revolts.There is no real unity in the geste of Doon de Mayence(mid 13th century). A vision informed him that he could only, followed by a sequel: Daurel et Beton, whose putative Old French version is lost; the story is known from an Occitan version of c. 1200, The chansons de geste created a body of mythology that lived on well after the creative force of the genre itself was spent. William of Gellone (c. 755 - 28 May 812 or 814), the medieval William of Orange, was the second Duke of Toulouse from 790 until 811. William's career battling Saracens is sung in epic poems in the 12th and 13th century cycle called La Geste de Garin de Monglane, some two dozen chansons de geste that actually center around William, the great-grandson of the largely legendary Garin. [2] In the tenth or eleventh century, [3] a Latin hagiography, the Vita sancti Willelmi, was composed. Le Plerinage de Charlemagne or Voyage de Charlemagne Jrusalem et Constantinople is an Old French chanson de geste dealing with a fictional expedition by Charlemagne and his knights. L bemaison (Soc. ", the is repeated within the sentence and is assonant. J Couraye de Parc (Paris: Socit des anciens textes franais, 1884) Foulque de Candie (ed. According to Helmut Bonheim , the concept of narreme was developed three decades ago by Eugene Dorfman and expanded by Henri Wittmann, The narreme is to narratology what the morpheme is to morphology and the phoneme to phonology. It became a subject of contention however as the reputation of William grew. "L'Abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert" http://medieval.mrugala.net/Architecture/Saint%20Guilhem%20le%20des (in French) 3. The cycle of Guillaume has more unity than the other great cycles of Charlemagne or of Doon de Mayence, the various poems which compose it forming branches of the main story rather than independent epic poems. William's faithful service to Charlemagne is portrayed as an example of feudal loyalty. He is the author of Girard de Vienne, and it is likely that he also wrote Aymeri de Narbonne(late 12th/early 13th), Girart de Vienne is a late twelfth-century Old French chanson de geste by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube. However, the Manual refers only to the need to pray for the family of Bernard's father, in which case it would seem odd for the text to single out Heribert from all other maternal relatives if he was related to Bernard through his mother. As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. He retired as a monk there in 806 where he eventually died on the 28 May 812 (or 814). Charlemagne had received the relic from the Patriarch of Jerusalem according to the Vita of William. As a kinsman and trusted comes he spent his youth in the court of Charlemagne. Birth of St. William of Gellone, count of Toulouse, Birth of Rotlinde "Chrodlindis" de Toulouse. The songs were recited (sometimes to casual audiences, sometimes possibly in a more formal setting) by jongleurs, who would sometimes accompany themselves, or be accompanied, on the vielle. The French chanson gave rise to the Old Spanish tradition of the cantar de gesta. The listing below is arranged according to Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube's cycles, extended with two additional groupings and with a final list of chansons that fit into no cycle. Assonance is refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. textes fr., Paris, 2 vols, 1887) Les Enfances Guillaume (13th century) Les Narbonnais, ed. His Occitan name is Guilhem, and he is known in French as Guillaume d'Orange, Guillaume Fierabrace, and the Marquis au court nez. El Cantar de Mio Cid , also known in English as The Lay of the Cid, is the oldest preserved Spanish epic poem . Guillaume De Gellone, Circa 740 - 812 The second possibility is that he was not so obviously a "family member" as the other named individuals, either because he was illegitimate or because he was a uterine half-brother of Bernard. Assuming that Heribert was the son of Guillaume de Toulouse & his first wife Cunigundis (about which there may be some doubt, see below under Heribert), and assuming also that "consobrinus" is used in the text in its strict sense, Cunegundis and the mother of Eudes Comte d'Orlans would have been sisters. The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. des anc. Main article: La Geste de Garin de Monglane Geneanet. "Theodericus comes in Augustiduno civitate" issued a charter dated Dec 815 subscribed by "Dotinus, Ado, Bligario vicecomite, Girbaudus vicarius"[463]. [6] Among his gifts to the abbey he founded was a piece of the True Cross, a present from his cousin Charlemagne. 755. The poem, written in the ottava rima stanza rhythm, consists of 68 cantos and a half. Saint-Guilhem-le-Dsert, Hrault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Son of Thierry I, count of Autun and Aldana his testament, granting certain property to Gellone, and another subjecting that monastery to the Abbot of Aniane, are given by Mabillon. There is a later sequel: Renaud de Montauban, was a fictional hero who was introduced to literature in a 12th century Old French chanson de geste also known as the Quatre Fils Aymon . William was born in 755, in Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comte, France. William the Great of Gellone. They had 3 sons: Pepijn II van Vermandois and 2 other children. This cycle contains the first of the chansons to be written down, the Chanson de Roland or "Song of Roland". GERBERGE (-drowned Chalon-sur-Sane 834). textes fr., 2 vols, 1898), with a Latin fragment dating from the 11th century, preserved at the Hague Le Couronnement Looys (ed. Thegan's Vita Hludowici Imperatoris records that "sanctimonialis feminamsoror ducis BernhardiGerbirch" was "iussit in vase vinatico claudere" and thrown into "flumen Ararim" [in 834][452]. His wife is said to have been a converted Saracen, Orable later christened Guibourc. Chanson de Roland (c. 1100 for the Oxford text, the earliest written version); several other versions exist, including the Occitan. In accordance with the legal provisions, you can ask for the removal of your name and the name of your minor children. His son, and likely William himself, was a relative of Charlemagne. At the eleventh hour he summoned Guillaume to his help against the overwhelming forces of the Saracens. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each . The nineteenth century medievalist Gaston Paris, Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris , known as Gaston Paris, was a French writer and scholar.-Biography:Paris was born at Avenayrecognising that they drew on an oral epic tradition, identified this with narrative songs (sometimes called cantilenae). There, he was made Count of Toulouse in the stead of the disgraced Chorso, then King of Aquitaine in 778. William passed away on May 28 812, at age 57 in Saint-Guilhem-le-Dsert. in the British Museum contains eighteen chansons of the cycle. His father's name was Theoderic (Thierry I), his mother's Aldana (Alda), and he was in some way connected with the family of Charles the Great (Charlemagne), at whose court he was present as a youth. In 793, Hisham I, the successor of Abd ar-Rahman I, proclaimed a holy war against the Christians to the north. Occitan, known also as Lenga d'c in Occitan or Langue d'oc in French is a Romance language spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, Monaco and in the Aran Valley of Spain Middle High German , abbreviated MHG , is the term used for the period in the history of the German language between 1050 and 1350. His wife Guitburgi is said to have been the widow of the Moorish wali of Orange taken by William in his battles against the Umayyad army of Hisham I in and around the county of Narbona about 793-796. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian stanza and is the longest poem in the English Spenser attempted to adapt the form devised to tell the tale of the triumph of Christianity over Islam to tell instead of the triumph of Protestantism over Roman Catholicism. This saint is the hero of the ninth-century "Roman de Guillame au court nez", but the story of his life is told in a more reliable form by the anonymous author of the biography which was written soon after the saint's death, or before the eleventh century according to Mabillon, or during the eleventh century according to the Bollandist Henschen. He married Witberga Unknown (?-bef795) . VISIT JEANNE'S BLOG! ", Annales du Midi, 85: 191-202 (1973); N.L. (Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Gellone), {{ mediasCtrl.getTitle(media, true) }} In 804, he founded the abbey of Gellone. Son of Thierry I, count of Autun and Aude of Austrasia mother St. William of Gellone, count of. Bertha Cunigunde d'Italie (born de Gellone) was born on month day 797, at birth place, to William de Gellone and Gilbour von Gellone (born Hornbach). 5. He retired as a monk there in 806 where he eventually died on the 28 May 812 (or 814). Gellone remained under the control of the abbots of Aniane. The Abbey was a major stop for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela. So many pilgrims were attracted to Gellone that his corpse was exhumed from the modest site in the narthex and given a more prominent place under the choir, to the intense dissatisfaction of the Abbey of Aniane. The fifth daughter, Blanchefleur, is represented as the wife of Louis the Pious. William, count of Provence, son of Boso II, again delivered southern France from a Saracen invasion by his victory at Fraxinet in 973, and ended his life in a cloister. Toulouse, Departement de la Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrnes, France. The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is a body of legendary history that springs from the Old French medieval literature of the chansons de gesteThis distinguished them from romances concerned with the Matter of Britain, The Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of Great Britain, especially those focused on King Arthur and the knights of the Round Tablethat is, King Arthur. Guillaume & his [first] wife had [six] children.Guillaume & his [second] wife had [four] children. As Count he successfully subdued the Gascons. Assuming that Heribert was the son of Guillaume de Toulouse & his first wife Cunigundis (about which there may be some doubt, see below under Heribert), and assuming also that "consobrinus" is used in the text in its strict sense, Cunegundis and the mother of Eudes Comte d'Orlans would have been sisters. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europeand Louis the Pious, Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781. The German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach. A number of forged documents and assertions were produced on each side that leave details of actual history doubtful. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. One section of the cycle, however, is devoted to the feats of his father, there named Aymeri de Narbonne, who has received Narbonne as his seigniory after his return from Spain with Charlemagne. Guillaume & his [first] wife had [six] children: 1. 1170), Simon de Pouille or "Simon of Apulia", fictional eastern adventures; the hero is said to be a grandson of Garin de Monglane, Floovant (late 12th); the hero is a son of Merovingian King Clovis I. Clovis was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one king. However, the Manual of Dhuoda names (in order) "Willelmus, Chungundis, Gariberga, Vuithbergis, Teddericus, Gothzelmus, Guarnarius, Rothlindis" as relatives of Bernard, husband of Doda, implying from this order that "Chungundis" was more senior than "Vuithbergis"[433]. An example from the Chanson de Roland illustrates the technique. Le Plerinage de Charlemagne or Voyage de Charlemagne Jrusalem et Constantinople is an Old French chanson de geste dealing with a fictional expedition by Charlemagne and his knights. The 12th century chanson de geste of Garin le Loherain is one of the fiercest and most sanguinary narratives left by the trouvres. The Annales Bertiniani record that "sororem Bernardi sanctimonialem" was drowned "in Ararim fluvium" in 834[450]. 1326-2420) of the fight appear to be set side by side as if they were separate episodes. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Oceanduring the eighth and ninth centuries, the age of Charles Martel, Charles Martel , called Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks. [8] In addition, he had a son Heribert, a daughter Gerberge, and perhaps a daughter Rotlinde. Several manuscript texts include lines in which the jongleur demands attention, threatens to stop singing, promises to continue the next day, and asks for money or gifts. The defeat of the Moors at Orange was given legendary treatment in the 12th century epic La Prise d'Orange. Sources:Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., 1999Page: 48-16Text: father of Wialdruth, Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968Page: 10Text: father of BernardTitle: Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval, at. Another problem is the existence around the same time of counts in the March of Spain, who may also have held the title marchio, as discussed in the document CATALONIA. The Annales Bertiniani record the capture and blinding of "Herebertum fratrem Bernardi" in 830[445]. The episode was eventually incorporated, c. 1180, by Graindor de Douai in his reworking of the Chanson d'Antioche, Matabrune tells the story of old Matabrune and of the great-grandfather of Godefroi de Bouillon, Le Chevalier au Cigne tells the story of Elias, grandfather of Godefroi de Bouillon. Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis is an anonymous poem in medieval Latin, written in the first half of the 12th century. BERNARD ([795]-executed Toulouse Saint-Sernin [Jan/Jun] 844). Aristotle, in Poetics 1447a, merely mentions lyric poetry along with drama, epic poetry, dancing, painting and other forms of mimesisof the trouvres (troubadours). William met this force and defeated them. It was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to the appeal from Byzantinein two historical sources on that Crusade, supporting the statement by Graindor of Brie, composer of the surviving Chanson d'Antioche, The Chanson d'Antioche is a chanson de geste in 9000 lines of alexandrines in stanzas called laisses, now known in a version composed about 1180 for a courtly French audience and embedded in a quasi-historical cycle of epic poems inspired by the events of 1097 1099, the climax of the Firstthat he had drawn on the original work of the jongleur and participant Richard le Plerin. Situated in the narrow valley of the Gellone river where it meets the steep sided gorge of the Hrault River, Saint-Guilhem-le-Dsert is essentially a mediaeval village located on the Chemin de St Jacques (St James' Way) pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostella. As a genre of Occitan literature, its limits have been open to debate since it was first defined in the 19th centurybetter known from its first words as "Cabra juglar": this is addressed to a juglar (jongleur) and purports to instruct him on the poems he ought to know but doesn't. Though minstrels created their own tales, often they would memorize and embellish the works of others. William Wilhelmid of Gellone, Count of Toulouse, Marquis of Septimania, was born 755 to Thierry d'Autun (c720-c782) and Auda of France (732-bef755) and died circa 28 May 813 of unspecified causes. 1.) m ---. He granted property to Gellone and placed the monastery under the general control of Benedict of Aniane, whose monastery was nearby. Garnier or Warner, cited only in the Manuel de Dhuoda 4. The book claims that William was the son of Theodoric, and that since Theodoric was Merovingian, that meant that William was Merovingian as well, and plus was a "Jew of royal blood". The Manual of Dhuoda names (in order) "Willelmus, Chungundis, Gariberga, Vuithbergis, Teddericus, Gothzelmus, Guarnarius, Rothlindis" as relatives of Bernard, husband of Doda[462], which suggests that the last four named were the children of Guillaume by his second wife "Vuithbergis", assuming that all four were his children. Under a pine tree, by a rosebush,there is a throne made entirely of gold.There sits the king who rules sweet France;his beard is white, with a full head of hair.He is noble in carriage, and proud of bearing. The Vita Hludowici Imperatoris names "Heribertus, Bernhardi frater" when recording that he was sent to suppress the rebellion of "Hodo consobrinus illius", the latter surrendering and being exiled[439]. William married Guiboar Von Hornbach. As a second example, there are references to contemporary songs on the subject of the First Crusade. m ([813]%29 BERNARD I King of Italy, illegitimate son of PEPIN I King of Italy & his mistress Chrothais ([797]-Milan 17 Aug 818, bur Milan, San Ambrosio). In 804, he founded the abbey of Gellone. Gaucelm or "Gaucelm Rousillon" (d. 834) Marquis de Gothie in 812, beheaded in Chalon-sur-Saone under orders from King Lothair I. Name: St. Guillaume of Gellone - Count of Toulouse Sex: M Birth: 754 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France Death: 28 MAY 812 in Aniane, D partement de l'H rault (Erau), Languedoc, France Burial: Saint-Guilhem-le-D sert Monastery, Aniane, D partement de l'H rault (Erau), Languedoc, France . William's living wives Gunegunde and Guitburgi, his deceased parents, Teuderico (Theodoric / Thierry IV) and Aldana van Martel (daughter of Charles Martel), two brothers, Teudoino and Adalelmo, two sisters, Abbana and Bertana, four sons, Barnardo, Guitcario, Gotcelmo, and Helmbruc, not his daughter (Rotlinde van Bobbio van Gellone), In 1972 historian Arthur Zuckerman published A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, a book about the dynasty of Makhir of Narbonne. In the chanson he is awarded Ermengart, daughter of Didier, and sister of Boniface, king of the Lombards. Among his gifts to the abbey he founded was a piece of the True Cross, a present from his cousin Charlemagne. It need not be set to music. Doon de Nanteuil current in the second half of the 12th century, now known only in fragments which derive from a 13th century version. The word monster derives from the latin word monstrum, meaning "omen", from the root of monere and also meaning "prodigy" or "miracle".increasingly appear among the foes along with Muslims. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debatedand his knights; A knight was a "gentleman soldier" or member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe. The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532by Ludovico Ariosto, Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. The mythology and legends of many different cultures include monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. Drawing on Zuckermann's thesis, the book claimed that "modern scholarship and research have proved Guillem's Judaism beyond dispute." Einhard records that Charles I King of the Franks sent "Theodorico comite et Meginfredo camerario suo" to "aquilonalem Danubii ripam" in 791[413].