There are two people named Garnier whose lives have overlapped -- at least in history!
Garnier de Loches, was born in 844 and died in 929. He was the son of Adelard de Loches and Aelind de Lorraine. He married Tescende. They were the parents of Roscille, born 874.
Garnier de Troyes I was born a generation later in 868 and died in combat 6 Dec 925. His parents are shown as Richard Meroving and his wife Adelaide. Garnier de Troyes married Thietburge, who was born in Arles in 881. They were the parents of six children shown on wikitree: Manasses, Thiburge, Hugh, Fromond, Berta and Constance.
Garnier was born 844, the son of Adelaudus of Loches b. circa 820 [3]
His father was Adelard de Loches, born Nantes 820, and his mother was Aelinde Orleans, born Amboise, 844. (This would have the son Garnier born the same year as his mother.) [4]
874 Marriage to Toscanda or Tescende
Garnier, seigneur de Loches married Toscanda (?) before 874. [3] Toscanda (?) was born circa 845. [3]
Garnier's wife was named Tescende or Tescenda. "In the seventh year of king Raoul, Fulco (Foulques), his wife Roscilla, and his sons Widdo (Gui) and Fulco, gave a donation to Saint-Aubin d'Angers for the benefit of his soul and the souls of his father (genitor) Ingelgerius, his son Ingelgerius, his father-in-law Warnerius and the latter's wife Tescenda." [1]
Reign
Garnier, seigneur de Loches owned three castles in the Touraine, the ones called Loches, Villentrois and Haye after August 905. Two of these were acquired by unjust means by his son-in-law, Fulk "The Red." [5]
Unsupported Wives Listed on Wikitree
Thietburge (Bosonid) de Loches, born Arles Sept 30 881 [4]
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