I have to put my head back on this, so bear with me, before I can get to the specific question about Robert lll’s niece. I was looking at Count Cancor, founder of Lorsch Abbey.
The scope to me is the question, what is the ancestry of Robert le Fort, and how do we best represent that on Geni?
And forgive me, but I’m thinking that we can do a little better in showing this than Cawley’s research compilation. I don’t disagree with his findings, I just think we can take it next level.
First, the primary evidence is roundabout in charters, especially the ones from Lorsch Abbey, not all of which have been published, apparently: and not accessible to me regardless. So I am relying on reports from scholars in the field, especially Christian Settipani, in snippets.
For me, https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000186174770141 helped with the political picture. And if I read it correctly (always a question), she’s not outright concluding the Wormsgau ancestry is correct. Her point is that Robert le Fort’s origins were not memorialized close to his lifetime, unlike other dynasties.
So - back to Cancor and the “Robertians.”
Side note: Lorsch Abbey is a landmark of German wine culture! Cheers.
https://www.germanwines.de/tourism/landmarks-of-wine-culture/landma...
Lorsch Abbey itself was founded in 764, first as a private monastery of the Alemannic Count Cancor and his mother Williswinda. Soon thereafter they gave it to one of their relatives: Chrodegang, archbishop of Metz, the godfather of the Carolingian dynasty, and at the time, the only archbishop north of the Alps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancor
According to one source,[which?] Cancor was probably related to the Robertians. His father's name may have been Rodbert.[3] Robert may have been his brother or his nephew.
3. Williswanda's late husband's name is mentioned in the Lorsch necrology: [1]. This is cited by at least one modern secondary source, here (Bouchard): p.188 [see the document https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000186174770141]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertians
Modern proposals about their ancestry further back are based on the idea that there was one family which frequently named its sons Robert, including Robert III of Worms (800–834), Robert the Strong (d. 866), and Robert I of France (866–923). For example, one proposed ancestor is Robert of Hesbaye (c. 800), about whom there are almost no records.
Sorry for rambling - but it’s this last point I was looking at. To me, we take Settipani very seriously.