(Proposed Family Tree of Heloise Du Paraclet aka Heloise d'Argenteuil) Jennifer Lorraine Nielsen The Paraclete records hold that Heloise's mother is named Hersinde. Abelard refers to Heloise's foster father, Fulbert, as her "avunculus" -- her maternal uncle. Hersende of Fontrevaud (Champigne/Champagne) lives to be too old (to at least 1114), and would have had Heloise at too advanced an age, to make a satisfying candidate for Heloise's mother. It would become difficult to justify Heloise's placement at Argenteuil, or Abelard's avoidance of directly referencing Heloise's connection to Fontrevaud. I've fostered a suspicion for some time that Fulbert is not Heloise's biological uncle. He is too often speculated to be her real dad, or on a different line of thinking, to have had romantic interest in Heloise. I theorized perhaps Fulbert is her "spiritual" uncle in Christ, and she the product of an ex-wife entering a convent and becom
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