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Well, this certainly is not so:
"Although she is commonly referred to by the name Desiderata, it is now theorised that the name derives from an editorial error in a 19th century copy of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica which capitalised the D in desideriata filiam (Latin for desired daughter)."
Voltaire, in an edition of the the Annales de l'Empire published in 1754, mentions Desiderata as the wife of Charlemagne. If there was indeed an error in reading the original source manuscript, it considerably pre-dates the Monumenta.
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