Ermesenda

- Aft 1122

• Name	Ermesenda   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 21 Feb 1122  [3]
  Person ID	I12583	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2020

  
  

  Family	Guillem V de Montpellier,   b. Abt 1073   d. 1121 (Age ~ 48 years)
  Marriage	Between 1086 and 1087  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Guilelma de Montpellier   2. Bernard of Cluny,   b. Murles, Hérault, Occitan, France + 3. Guillem VI de Montpellier,   b. Abt 1095   d. Aft 11 Dec 1146, Grandselve Abbey, Bouillac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France (Age ~ 51 years) + 4. Guillem d'Omelaz,   b. Abt 1100   d. Bef May 1156 (Age ~ 56 years)
  Family ID	F7463	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Or Ermesindis, etc. She was not, contrary to many sources, a daughter of Pierre of Melgueil and Almodis de Toulouse. From Peter Stewart, soc.genealogy.medieval, 27 Mar 2020: Ermensenda's husband Guillaume V of Montpellier married his daughter Guilelma to Bernard IV of Melgueil, a grandson of Pierre. Consequently, if Ermensenda had been the daughter of Pierre in question, a first-cousin marriage would have taken place in the early-12th century, which is beyond implausible. At the time Pierre of Melgueil settled his dispute with Guillaume V of Montpellier the latter was apparently still very young — Pierre died in the late 1080s and (according to Claudie Duhamel-Amado) Guillaume V was born in 1073 or 1074. Given this, it seems likely that a marriage between Pierre's daughter and Guillaume did not last long and that in any event she was not Ermensenda, who outlived him and was the mother of his children including Guilelma married in 1120 to Bernard of Melgueil.

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S3884] Histoire Générale de Languedoc by Claude de-Vic and J. Vaissete. Toulouse: J.-B. Paya, 1841. [S3881] Peter Stewart, 27 Mar 2020, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.