Struvius, (Corpus Hist.German.

p.
118-149) was inserted in his Notes the texts of the old Chronicles.] [Footnote 107: On a charter granted to the monastery of Alaon (A.D.

845) by Charles the Bald, which deduces this royal pedigree.

I doubt whether some subsequent links of the ixth and xth centuries are equally firm; yet the whole is approved and defended by M.Gaillard, (tom.

ii.
p.60-81, 203-206,) who affirms that the family of Montesquiou (not of the President de Montesquieu) is descended, in the female line, from Clotaire and Clovis--an innocent pretension!] [Footnote 108: The governors or counts of the Spanish march revolted from Charles the Simple about the year 900; and a poor pittance, the Rousillon, has been recovered in 1642 by the kings of France, (Longuerue, Description de la France, tom i.p.