Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849

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1

Sic perhaps a mistake for et.

2

This same Alphéide, or Alpaïde, as she was frequently called, though but scurvily treated by posterior historians, is honoured by contemporary chroniclers as the second wife of Peppin, uxor altera. See Frédégaire.

3

Légendes de l'Histoire de France, par J. Collin de Plancy, p. 149. (notes.) Paris. Mellier Frères.

4

Blomefeld's Norfolk. Folio. 1739. Vol. ii. p. 803.