Talk:Redburga
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[edit] Moved here on suspicion of unfactuality
- "She was the daughter of a Persian princess, Izdundad, AKA "Princess Dara," who was the daughter of the last of the Sassanian Kings of Persia, Yezdigird III. Princess Dara was taken to Babylon and given in marriage to the Exilarch of the Babylonian Jews, Bostanai ben Chananai, who was of the House of David and therefore a Davidic King or cheif of the Babylonian Jews. Princess Dara's sister, Sharbano, was given in marriage to the Caliph Ali.
- Bostanai and Princess Dara left Babylon and lived in the court of Charlemagne, where Raedburh was born and grew up, because Charlemagne wanted a Davidic Jew to be part of his court and help with the relations between the Christians and the Jews of the Holy Roman Empire."
I researched Bostanai a bit, and he's well-attested in Jewish sources, but the Redburga and Charlemagne relationship seem undocumented in anything plausible I could find. So, need some book titles... Stan 06:53, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Everybody's wrong
The beauty of the internet is that you can spin a simple error into a far more grandiose myth. Saint Ida appears to have been a different person. Raedburh/Redburga, for her part, may not even exist. And she was definitely not the great-granddaughter of Charlemagne--that is probably a misreading of those genealogies that describe her as a great-granddaughter of Charles Martel. As for the exiled Jewish Exilarch, I have no information, only skepticism. Italo Svevo 22:19, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Redburga's parents - who knows?
According to some genealogy sources (e.g. http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per03391.htm#0) her father was a Jew who renamed himself as Theodoric. Many genealogy websites say this, but they have probably all copied from each other. Does anyone know how to find out if this is true? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.200.80.136 (talk) 04:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC).
