William I, Count of Burgundy
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William I (1020 – 1087), called the Great (le Grand or Tête Hardie, "the Rash") was Count of Burgundy and Mâcon from 1057 to 1087. He was a son of Renaud I and Adelaide, daughter of Richard II of Normandy. William was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callistus II.
In 1057, he succeeded his father and reigned over a territory larger than that of the Franche-Comté itself. In 1087, he died in Besançon and was buried there in the cathedral of St John.
William married a woman named Stephanie.[1]
They had several children:
- Renaud II, William's successor, died on First Crusade
- Stephen I, successor to Renaud II, Stephen died on the Crusade of 1101
- Raymond, married (1090) Urraca, the reigning queen of Castile
- Guy of Vienne, elected pope, in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny. as Calixtus II
- Sybilla (or Maud), married (1080) Eudes I of Burgundy
- Gisela, married (1090) Humbert II of Savoy and then Renier I of Montferrat
- Adelaide
- Bertha wife of Alphonso VI of Castile
- Eudes
- Hugh III, Archbishop of Besançon
- Clementia married Robert II, Count of Flanders and was Regent, during his absence
- Stephanie married Lambert, Prince de Royans (d.1119)
- Ermentrude, married (1065) Thierry I of Montbéliard
Preceded by Renaud I |
Count of Burgundy 1057 – 1087 |
Succeeded by Renaud II |
[edit] Note
- ^ She was identified as the daughter of Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine in an article by Szabolcs de Vajay in Annales de Bourgogne, XXXII:247-267 (Oct-Dec 1960), but the author subsequently made an unqualified retraction of this claim in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in Prosopographica et Genealogica, vol. 3: Onomastioque et Parenté dans l'Occident medieval, K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2-6.
[edit] References
- Portail sur Histoire Bourgogne et Histoire Franche-Comté, Gilles Maillet.
- FMG on William I, Comté de Burgundy