Folcard II, lord of Aa
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: by 1078.
Place of Death: unknown.
Butkens (2:109), Wauters (1:3), and Nys (p. 208; p. 221) state that Folcard’s wife was a widow in 1178.
Relationships
Father: uncertain.
Mother: uncertain.
(possible) Brother: Onulphe.
This relationship is given by Wauters (1:3).
Spouse: Regelinde (Rainilde). Married 1057.
This relationship is given by Wauters (1:3), by Nys (p. 207 fn 54), and by Charruadas (p. 45), who notes that her family origin is unknown.
Children:
Franco.
Siger d’Anderlecht.
Fredesinde married Steppo de Bruxelles.
Ledbert.
References
Butkens, Christophre. Trophées tant sacrés que profanes du duché de Brabant volume II (The Hague, 1724). [Wauters remarks that the account of the family of the lords of Aa given by Butkens contains many serious errors.]
Charruadas, Paulo. Croissance rurale et essor urbain à Bruxelles: Les dynamiques d’une société entre ville et campagnes (1000-1300) (Académie Royale de Belgique, 2011). [Digital copy at the website of the Académie Royale de Belgique]
Nys, Suzanne. “Le chapitre de Saint-Pierre d’Anderlecht dès origines à la fin du XIIIe siècle” in Cahiers Bruxellois IX pp. 189-291 (1964).
Wauters, Alphonse. Histoire des environs de Bruxelles vol. 1 (Brussels, 1855).