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MEDLANDS: " The Gesta Abbatem Trudonensium names "Herlendis comitissa, mater God...

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MEDLANDS: " The Gesta Abbatem Trudonensium names "Herlendis comitissa, mater Godefridi comitis Duratii" when recording her donation to the abbey in 1021 for the soul of "filii sui primogeniti Adelberonis, Metensis ecclesie primicerii" [Gestorum Abbatem Trudonensium Continuatio Tertia 1021, MGH SS X, p. 382. Footnote 43 refers to a second donation dated "4 Non Nov 1024". ]. “Godefridus comes cum matre sua Herlinda” donated “medietatem ville Witra” to Saint-Trond, for the soul of “filii sui Adalberonis”, by charter dated 2 Nov 1023, the dating clause of which records “ipsiusque monasterii advocato tunc existente Gisleberto eiusdem domine Herlinde filio”"[Saint-Trond, IX, p. 14. ]. So she had a son named Giselbert, advocate of St Truiden in 1023, but it seems his daughter Oda married Giselbert of Loon's apparent grandson Otto, bringing him Duras.

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