On 28-Aug-17 7:55 AM, Paulo Canedo wrote: > Christian Settipani has conjectured both the Capetians and the Plantagenets to be male line descendants of Count Hervé of Hesbaye. And in your opinion this conjecture is worth repeating without explicit scepticism? Based on negative onomastics, perhaps, in that neither of these families used the name Hervé? Peter Stewart