Thuringbert, Count of Hesbaye

Thuringbert (c. 735–770), Count in Wormsgau, was a brother of Cancor, a count who was associated with the Abbey of Lorsch. He was therefore possibly a son of Cancor's mother Williswinda and perhaps her only known husband, who was named Robert, and may therefore have been the Robert, who was Count or Duke in the Hesbaye.[1]

Thuringbert and his wife (name unknown) had one child:

Thuringbert was succeeded as Count of Hesbaye by his son Robert.

Primary records defining Thurincbert

The only primary records mentioning Thurincbert describe him as a brother of Count Cancor, and father of a man named Robert. Cancor was a son of a woman named Williswinda.

References

  1. ^ a b Bouchard 2015, p. 186.

Sources

  • Bouchard, Constance Brittain (2015). Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812290080.
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