Bernard Plantapilosa

841 - 886  (44 years)

• Name	Bernard Plantapilosa
  Birth	22 Mar 841	Uzès, Garde, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 20 Jun 885 and Aug 886  [1]
  Person ID	I3205	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Family	Ermengarde   d. Aft Jun 881
  Children	1. Adelinda d'Auvergne
  Family ID	F3393	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Count of Autun. Also called Bernard Plantevelue. Possibly a son of Bernard of Toulouse (also called "of Septimania"; d. 844) and Dhuoda Sanchez. "Plantapilosa is often claimed to mean 'Hairyfeet' or 'Hairypaws'. This is based on the Latin meaning 'sole of foot' or planta. However, in Basque, which is a descendant of the Aquitanian language, planta means 'appearance,' yielding the meaning 'hairy appearance'. Also, planta has another Latin meaning, 'shoot for propagation'. This yields the meaning 'Hairyshoot' which, since the broom shoot is hairy, can be compared with the 'sprig of broom' symbolism of the subsequent, nearby Plantagenet name. In Old Aquitanian, gods' names were cognate with Basque words for animals and plants." [Wikipedia]

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S160] Wikipedia.