It has been suggested that they were related to the family of William of Gellone and to the Counts of Autun, from which may have descended Ringard, the wife of Pepin II of Aquitaine.
This line of reasoning was later incorporated into the plot of the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code.
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The Sacramentary of Gellone, dating to the late 8th century, is a famous manuscript.
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A similar Charlemagne legend relates that a fragment of the cross was given to William of Gellone and kept in the monastery of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.