Re: Who was Eremburga of Mortain's father?

In a message dated 7/26/06 4:14:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, qp10qp@aol.com

<< It's starting to get to me, this. I can't possibly suggest that
Eremburga was the daughter of Robert, Count of Eu, if, two lines down
the same article it says that her daughter married Robert, Count of Eu.
It's madness. >>

Its simple if there was more than one Robert, Count of Eu though.

Peter Stewart...

How so? The only "simple" fact here is that a primary source tells us
Eremburge was daughter of William, count of Mortain. (This was most
plausibly William Werlenc, exiled from Normandy ca 1055/63.)

Why has anyone decided that her father might instead have been Robert, count
of Eu? And why imagine that there were two or more Roberts in the first
place?

Genealogy needs to stick closer to evidence than this thread is doing so
far. We don't have definite knowledge of the early counts of Mortain,
especially of William Werlenc, but that is not a license to invent
alternatives on the fly.

Peter Stewart

Peasemarch....

Thanks for that clear-headed comment. I'm certainly coming to the
conclusion that Malaterra's words have to stand; individual readers can
then pick the bones out of them as they wish.