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Source: Audacer/ Odoacer in 'The Legendary Ancestors of Baldwin of Flanders' - fasg.org

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Titre	Audacer/ Odoacer in 'The Legendary Ancestors of Baldwin of Flanders' - fasg.org

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ODACER of Flanders CR002
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Probable father: Audacer/Odoacer. In Annales Blandinienses and the closely related annals, Audacer appears mainly in entries involving Baldwin I. The only exception can be dismissed as a late addition: 840. "Egesloga dedit res suas sancto Petro supra mare in Addingahim[, sub Audacro abbate vel comite]." [Ann. Bland., Grierson (1937a), 11; words in brackets added in a fourteenth century hand over an erasure] Three of these annals add Baldwin's parentage to the account of Judith's elopement: 862. "Iudith secuta est Baldwinum Ferreum, filium Audacri." [Ann. Bland., Grierson (1937a), 12] 861. "Iudich, filia Karoli Calvi, secuta est Baldwinum Ferreum, filium Audacri." [Ann. Elmarenses, Grierson (1937a), 82] 862. "Balduinus [Ferreus], Odacri filius, Iudith, Caroli regis filiam, uxorem duxit, illa illam sequente." [Ann. Elnonenses ("minores"), Grierson (1937a), 146; "Ferreus" added in another hand] The first two of these appear to go back to an entry in their common source which is the same as the entry in Annales Blandinienses: "Iudith secuta est Baldwinum Ferreum, filium Audacri." The words "Iudith secuta est Baldwinum" look like a very abbreviated version of the account of Annales Bertiniani (see above). Grierson suggests that the information about Baldwin's parentage came from lost annals of Saint-Bertin which are known to have been one of the sources of these annals [Grierson (1937a), 12, n. 5]. All four of the annals edited in Grierson (1937a) give Baldwin's parentage in his obituary: 879. "Baldwinus filius Audacri obiit; Blandinio sepelitur." [Ann. Bland., Grierson (1937a), 13] 879. "Obiit Balduinus comes Flandrie, filius Audacri, et in ecclesia sancti Bertini sepelitur. Cui successit filius eius Baldwinus Calvus" [Ann. Elmarenses, Grierson (1937a), 83] 877. "Baldwinus filius Audacri obiit; [Carolus Calvus obiit], Blandinio sepelitur." [Ann. Formos., Grierson (1937a), 125; the words in brackets are a separate entry which has intruded into the middle of Baldwin's obituary] 879. "Balduinus, Odacri filius, obiit." [Ann. Elnonenses ("minores"), Grierson (1937a), 147] Here the entry from Annales Formosolenses has resulted from the careless combination of annals from two different years (877 and 879), with one entry ("Carolus Calvus obiit" for 877) intruding into the middle of an entry identical to the 879 entry from Annales Blandinienses: "Baldwinus filius Audacri obiit; Blandinio sepelitur." As already mentioned above under the date of Baldwin's death, Grierson has suggested that the original entry was compiled in Saint-Bertin and had something like "hic" or "in hoc monasterio" in place of "Blandinio", the latter being an error [Grierson (1937a), 17, n. 9]. The Chronicon Vedastinum, an eleventh century compilation, also gives this parentage of Baldwin ["Balduinus, Audacri filius, moritur et Sithiu sepelitur." Chronicon Vedastinum, s.a. 879, MGH SS 13: 709], adding the parentage to the information taken from its evident source, Annales Vedastini (see above). Also, from the same source, we have an entry apparently making Baldwin the son of an eighth century man named Odacer ["... ubi Karolus rex Gramannum atque Odacrum, patrem Balduini comitis Flandrensium, misit." Chronicon Vedastinum, s.a. 788, MGH SS 13: 705; this entry is dated to the tenth century by Dhondt (1940), 304], who does in fact appear in a similar contemporary annal, but without Baldwin as his son ["..., et fuerunt ibi missi domni Caroli regis Grahamannus et Audacrus cum aliquibus Francis." Annales Laurissenses, s.a. 788, MGH SS 1: 174]. It seems clear from the chronology that this Odoacer from 788 was not Baldwin's father. However, it does appear that the compiler of this chronicle at least thought that he knew the name of Baldwin's father, but did not notice how unlikely a father this particular Odoacer was when he added Baldwin's name to the entry. Thus, in contrast to Lidéric and Ingelram, who are not genealogically linked to Baldwin in the earliest records in which they appear, and do not become linked to him until the last half of the eleventh century, Audacer's name is given as the father of Baldwin from the first appearance of Audacer's name in the records, which appear to go back to the tenth century. Thus, it is likely that the name Audacer/Odoacer can be accepted as the name of Baldwin's father. Nothing is known of Audacer beyond his status as Baldwin's father, unless there is some truth to the hunting rights from abbot Einhard mentioned below.

Probable father: Audacer/Odoacer.
In Annales Blandinienses and the closely related annals, Audacer appears mainly in entries involving Baldwin I. The only exception can be dismissed as a late addition:
840. "Egesloga dedit res suas sancto Petro supra mare in Addingahim[, sub Audacro abbate vel comite]." [Ann. Bland., Grierson (1937a), 11; words in brackets added in a fourteenth century hand over an erasure]

Three of these annals add Baldwin's parentage to the account of Judith's elopement:
862. "Iudith secuta est Baldwinum Ferreum, filium Audacri." [Ann. Bland., Grierson (1937a), 12]
861. "Iudich, filia Karoli Calvi, secuta est Baldwinum Ferreum, filium Audacri." [Ann. Elmarenses, Grierson (1937a), 82]
862. "Balduinus [Ferreus], Odacri filius, Iudith, Caroli regis filiam, uxorem duxit, illa illam sequente." [Ann. Elnonenses ("minores"), Grierson (1937a), 146; "Ferreus" added in another hand]
The first two of these appear to go back to an entry in their common source which is the same as the entry in Annales Blandinienses: "Iudith secuta est Baldwinum Ferreum, filium Audacri." The words "Iudith secuta est Baldwinum" look like a very abbreviated version of the account of Annales Bertiniani (see above). Grierson suggests that the information about Baldwin's parentage came from lost annals of Saint-Bertin which are known to have been one of the sources of these annals [Grierson (1937a), 12, n. 5].

All four of the annals edited in Grierson (1937a) give Baldwin's parentage in his obituary:
879. "Baldwinus filius Audacri obiit; Blandinio sepelitur." [Ann. Bland., Grierson (1937a), 13]
879. "Obiit Balduinus comes Flandrie, filius Audacri, et in ecclesia sancti Bertini sepelitur. Cui successit filius eius Baldwinus Calvus" [Ann. Elmarenses, Grierson (1937a), 83]
877. "Baldwinus filius Audacri obiit; [Carolus Calvus obiit], Blandinio sepelitur." [Ann. Formos., Grierson (1937a), 125; the words in brackets are a separate entry which has intruded into the middle of Baldwin's obituary]
879. "Balduinus, Odacri filius, obiit." [Ann. Elnonenses ("minores"), Grierson (1937a), 147]
Here the entry from Annales Formosolenses has resulted from the careless combination of annals from two different years (877 and 879), with one entry ("Carolus Calvus obiit" for 877) intruding into the middle of an entry identical to the 879 entry from Annales Blandinienses: "Baldwinus filius Audacri obiit; Blandinio sepelitur." As already mentioned above under the date of Baldwin's death, Grierson has suggested that the original entry was compiled in Saint-Bertin and had something like "hic" or "in hoc monasterio" in place of "Blandinio", the latter being an error [Grierson (1937a), 17, n. 9].

The Chronicon Vedastinum, an eleventh century compilation, also gives this parentage of Baldwin ["Balduinus, Audacri filius, moritur et Sithiu sepelitur." Chronicon Vedastinum, s.a. 879, MGH SS 13: 709], adding the parentage to the information taken from its evident source, Annales Vedastini (see above). Also, from the same source, we have an entry apparently making Baldwin the son of an eighth century man named Odacer ["... ubi Karolus rex Gramannum atque Odacrum, patrem Balduini comitis Flandrensium, misit." Chronicon Vedastinum, s.a. 788, MGH SS 13: 705; this entry is dated to the tenth century by Dhondt (1940), 304], who does in fact appear in a similar contemporary annal, but without Baldwin as his son ["..., et fuerunt ibi missi domni Caroli regis Grahamannus et Audacrus cum aliquibus Francis." Annales Laurissenses, s.a. 788, MGH SS 1: 174]. It seems clear from the chronology that this Odoacer from 788 was not Baldwin's father. However, it does appear that the compiler of this chronicle at least thought that he knew the name of Baldwin's father, but did not notice how unlikely a father this particular Odoacer was when he added Baldwin's name to the entry.

Thus, in contrast to Lidéric and Ingelram, who are not genealogically linked to Baldwin in the earliest records in which they appear, and do not become linked to him until the last half of the eleventh century, Audacer's name is given as the father of Baldwin from the first appearance of Audacer's name in the records, which appear to go back to the tenth century. Thus, it is likely that the name Audacer/Odoacer can be accepted as the name of Baldwin's father. Nothing is known of Audacer beyond his status as Baldwin's father, unless there is some truth to the hunting rights from abbot Einhard mentioned below.