First, as to his name. The _Gesta Cons._ do not mention it. The Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1060 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, p. 402), Hugh of Fleury (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. xii. p. 797), and R. Diceto (Marchegay, _Comtes_, p. 333; Stubbs, vol. i. p. 185) call him Alberic. Fulk Rechin (as above) calls him Geoffrey. None of them tell us anything about him. It seems in fact to be the aim of the Angevin writers to keep us in the dark as to the descent of the later counts of Anjou from the house of Gâtinais through the husband of Hermengard-Adela; but they try to make out a connexion between the two families six generations further back. One of the earliest legends in the _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_, pp. 39–45) tells how Châteaulandon and the Gâtinais were given to Ingelger as a reward for his defence of his slandered godmother, the daughter and heiress of a Count Geoffrey of Gâtinais, and the alleged gift is coupled with a grant from the king of the viscounty of Orléans. What Ingelger may or may not have held it is impossible to say, as we really know nothing about him. But there is proof that the viscounty of Orléans at least did not pass to his descendants. The very first known charter of Fulk the Good, one dated May 942, is witnessed by Geoffrey viscount of Orléans; and Geoffrey Greygown’s charter for the reform of S. Aubin’s in 966 is witnessed by Alberic viscount of Gâtinais, whose signature has already appeared in 957, attached to a charter of Theobald the Trickster. This Alberic may very likely have been the son of his predecessor Geoffrey, but he cannot well have been the father of Fulk Nerra’s son-in-law; there is a generation dropped out, and of the man who should fill it the only trace is in Ménage (_Hist. de Sablé_), who says that Fulk Rechin’s father, Geoffrey count of Gâtinais, was the son of _another Geoffrey_ and Beatrice, daughter of Alberic II. of Mâcon (Mabille, introd. _Comtes_, pp. lxxxv–lxxxvi). It seems probable that Orléans and Châteaulandon went together in fact as well as in Angevin legend. Assuming therefore that Ménage was copying a document now lost, the pedigree would stand thus: Geoffrey, viscount of Orléans 942 | Alberic, viscount in 957 and 966 | Geoffrey, viscount of Orléans and count of Gâtinais | Alberic or Geoffrey = Hermengard or Adela, | daughter of Fulk Nerra +--------------+--------------+ | | Geoffrey the Bearded. Fulk Rechin.