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 | | The Ogier of romance may be definitely associated with the flight of Gerberga and her children to Lombardy, but it is not -safe to assume that the other scattered references all relate to the same individual. |
 | | Color is lent to the theory of his Bavarian origin by the fact that he, with Duke Naimes of Bavaria, led the Bavarian contingent to battle at Roncesvaux. |
 | | In the romances of the Carolingian cycle he is, on account of his revolt against Charlemagne, placed in the family of Doon de Mayence, being the son of Gaufrey de " Dannemarche." The Enfances Ogier of Adenes le Rois, and the Chevalerie Ogier de Dannemarche of Raimbert de Paris, are doubtless based on earlier chansons. |
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