On 3/06/2017 10:29 AM, Nancy Piccirilli wrote: > Hi everyone, happy summer. I have become interested in one Burchard, Bishop > of Worms, and would like to know a bit about his family. He had a brother > Franco, also Bishop of Worms, and a sister, an Abbess of an unknown abbey. > Burchard was a noted canonist, and Mathilda was famous as a maker of > "sumptuous clothes." They were the children of a noble family in Hesse, > Germany, but I cannot find their parents' names. Can anyone tell me? > Their parents' names are unknown - you can find an English translation of Burchard's Vita here: http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1025burchard-vita.asp Peter Stewart