Boson “le Vieux”, count of La Marche

Events

Date of Birth: about 920.

The estimated date is given by Settipani (p. 180).

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: before 974.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley. Settipani (p. 180) gives 988.

Relationships

Father: Sulpice, son of Geoffroy.

This relationship is given by Cawley.

Mother: unknown.

Cawley notes that Settipani conjectures that she was a daughter of Audebert de Limoges.

Spouse: Emma de Périgueux.

This relationship is given by Barthélemy (p. 612), who makes her the daughter of Guillaume I, count of Périgueux and then of Angoulême. Cawley argues that she was the daughter of Guillaume's son, Bernard.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Cawley.)

Hélie, count of La Marche.

Audebert, count of La Marche, married Adalmode de Limoges.

Boson, count of La Marche.

Gausbert. A monk.

Martin (died 1000), bishop of Périgueux.

References

Barthélemy, Dominique. L’an mil et la paix de dieu: la France chrétienne et féodale 980-1060, (Fayard, 1999).

Cawley, Charles. “Boson (I) "le Vieux"” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Settipani, Christian. La noblesse de midi carolingien (Prosopographica et Genealogica Volume 5:2004).