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Problem with birth and death dates
editThe text cites 515 and 573 has approx. birth and death dates; then in the next sentence says she may have been born between 500 and 510 and died between 580 and 590; so which is it? is there a source for the more precise dates? --FeanorStar7 10:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- There is two thesis. A first estimate was established by Michel Fleury and his team when the grave was discovered (573). This estimate is now considered to be out of date. Indeed, a study by Patrick Périn (in the 1990's) gave a new estimate (580-590), mainly by research on style of the clothes and jewelry. Sorry for my poor english, if you can read french, see the fr:
The reason that Bernstein did not use DNA from a Merovingian descendent was because the program he was featured in was created during the Dan Brown "The Da Vinci Code" controversy. It was obvious to educated viewers that the program was one of many created at that time to discourage any real connection between the fiction of Dan Brown and more serious theories of Merovingian and Hebrew/Davidian connection through a possible descendant of a historically possible marriage between Mary Magdalene and Jesus of Nazareth (Josua ben Joseph).
Family Ties
editBased on the links, if Aregund is the sister of Ingund, and Ingund is the daughter of King Baderic, is Aregund also the daughter of Baderic?
By extension then if they are the daughters of Baderic, and Baderic is the brother of Berthar, doesn't that make Radegund, 2nd wife of Chlothar I, a 1st cousin to Chlothar I's 3rd wife, Ingund, and 4th wife, Aregund? These relationships are not clearly articulated on the pages for any of this famly group so I am not sure I'm interpretting this correctly.
Far-fetched deductions
editA great deal of what is said here is based on the very identification of a skeleton as Aregund's which the same article says (rightly) has been disputed. Even confining oneself to what is known of the historical personage, as I recall Gregory of Tours says Ingund wanted her sister married well lest she married someone beneath the two of them. And apparently Chlothar lost interest in her once her sister had died, so the idea that she was meant to replace her seems far-fetched (and matches none of the scholarship I've seen on this).