Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. The seigneurie de Bourbon was located north of Auvergne and west of the southern part of the duchy of Burgundy. From relatively obscure beginnings, the first race of seigneurs de Bourbon arranged prominent marriages with Burgundian nobility. Bourbon was elevated to the status of a duchy in in favour of Louis Comte de Clermont, and he and his successors rose to prominence at the French court.
The origin of Aimar, earliest known ancestor of the first dynasty of seigneurs de Bourbon, is unknown. The fraudulent Bourbon documentation recalls the similar exercise relating to the purported Merovingian descent of the dukes of Aquitaine and Gascony, based on the so-called Alarcon charter which was fabricated around the same time see the Introduction to GASCONY.
The background to the creation of the fraudulent Bourbon documents is discussed fully by Chazaud who also publishes in full several of the spurious charters [2].
Another charter, dated 28 Apr , records another purported donation by " Ademarus comes " and names " Eckardi comitis avi mei…et Rodberti et Adelelmi quondam fratrum meorum… " [5].
No other primary sources have yet been identified which name the two supposed brothers of Aimar and the supposed four younger sons and daughter of Aimon [I]. They are therefore omitted from the genealogy which is presented below. His parentage is confirmed by the charter dated Jan see below. His birth date range is estimated on the assumption that he and his brothers were young adults or adolescents when they witnessed this charter.
