05 October 2012

Immortal Saint

Comments after the jump.
Spouses are in bold with children listed below each.

 SIGRADE DE ALSACE
 Born: Moselle, Lorraine, France
 Death: Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

 Bodilon De Bourgogne
 Adele deTreves
 Count Warinus
 Gunza Treves
 Gunza Kunza Metz
 Kunza Metz
 Warinus Guerin Bourgogne
 WARINUS, W G DE BOURGOGNE, DE POITIERS, B: 638
 Guerin Warin Warinus Poitiers, B: 1853

 Bodilon DeTreves
 Adele DePoitiers
 Guerin DePoitiers
 Kunza DeTreves
 Warinus Franks Burgundy
 Guerin Warin, B: 1150
 Guerin Warin Warinus Poitiers, B: 1853

 Bodilon de Pointers, D: 2000
 Guerin de Autun
 Warinus de Autun Poitiers
 Guerin Warin Warinus Poitiers, B: 1853

 Chlodulf StCloud Bishop Metz
 Alberic d Aquitaine
 Guerin de Autun
 GUNZA DeTREVES
 Kunza DeTreves DeMetz Countess Paris
 Kunza Gunza de Metz
 Kunza Gunza deTreves
 Guerin Warin Warinus Poitiers, B: 1853

 Bodilon Boditon Franks Burgundy
 Adele deTreves
 Immachilde Hymnegilde
 Imnichilde DeSwabia
 Leger Bishop
 Guerin Warin Warinus Poitiers, B: 1853

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According to various trees this person is, literally, a saint. I tried to figure out exactly who she was so I did a Google search for Sigrade De Alsace. It looked like I had done a search on Mocavo. Results on the first 7 pages were all genealogy related. It may be that the results for the first 100 pages of results are genealogy related but I gave up after 7. Of course they all go to different disastrous trees on various sites.
Not that it will be reliable but I then tried Wikipedia. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Zilch.
So lots of people think there was a saint named Sigrade De Alsace and that they are related to her. The person who created the tree with the above profile also believes Sigrade lived over 1000 years. I would love to find out something about this supposed saint but these are an invasive species of tree that has not only taken over genealogy sites but an entire search engine as well. Sigh.

Hat tip to Janet for the heads up about this profile ;-)


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5 comments:

  1. I did a millionshort search and it was STILL all family trees. I couldn't find any reference of sainthood or who the person was outside of what's shared on people's trees.

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    1. Would it be wrong to make up a famous person, inventor, saint, whatever, make up a tree and see how long it would take before it started being copied? :-P

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  2. I found this reference to a Sigrades on Google UK.

    http://www.propheticvoice.co.uk/download/pdf%20books/Butler%27s%20Lives%20of%20the%20Fathers,%20Matrys%20and%20principle%20Saints.txt

    This is a very large text file; Ctl-F to find a reference. The book is available on Project Gutenberg.

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    1. I only see one reference to a woman named "Sigrades." No surname or location. Mother of St. Leodegarius (B: 616). No mention of her spouse's name. The crazy trees have her born anywhere from 600 to 620. There's only a handful of Ancestry trees for Leodegarius. One has his mother as Sigrades d'Alsace. Another has him, and his brother (also a saint) married to the daughter of Sigrades.
      Not surprising that the actual saint has barely a mention on Ancestry and this other one has taken over.
      Your link did give me the idea to narrow the Google search to books. Of course most of the results are in French and I don't know any French :-P

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    2. Yes, there was only the one reference. I wonder if that book has any credibility with the Church? I'm not Catholic so I haven't a clue as to its reliability. It may be entirely apocryphal.

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