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 XIII^e siècle” in Cahiers Bruxellois IX pp. 189-291 (1964).

Wauters, Alphonse. Histoire des environs de Bruxelles vol. 1 (Brussels, 1855).