Constance d'Arles

Events

Date of Birth: about 985 - 990.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The range of dates is given by Stewart.

Date of Death: 22 July 1034.

Place of Death: Melun.

The date and place are given by Stewart.

Place of Burial: Abbey of Saint-Denis.

The place is given by père Anselme (1:71) and by Stewart.

Relationships

Father: Guillaume “le Libérateur”, count of Arles, marquis of Provence.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:71), by Bachrach (p. 265), by Bouchard (p. 18), by Adair (p. 11), by Stasser, and by Stewart.

Mother: Adélaïde alias Blanche (died 1026), daughter of Foulques II, count of Anjou.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:71), by Bachrach (p. 265), by Bouchard (p. 18), by Adair (p. 11), by Stasser, and by Stewart.

Spouse: Robert II (died 1031), king of France.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:71), by Bachrach (p. 265), by Bouchard (p. 18), by Adair (p. 9), by Stasser, and by Stewart.

Children:

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

Advisa married Renaud I, count of Nevers and of Auxerre.

Hugues (II) Magnus (died 28 August 1025), associate king.

Henri I (died 4 August 1060), king of France, married (1) Mathilde; married (2) Anna Iaroslavna of Kiev.

Robert I (died 18 or 21 March 1075), duke of Burgundy, married (1) Hélie; married (2) Ermengarde d’Anjou.

Adèle (died 8 January 1079) married Baldwin V of Flanders.

Eudes.

References

Adair, Penelope Ann. “Constance of Arles: A Study in Duty and Frustration” in Capetian Women (ed. Kathleen Nolan) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Bachrach, Bernard S. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count, (University of California Press, 1993).

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Stewart, Peter. “Constance of Arles” in The Henry Project. (2012)

Stasser, Thierry, "Adélaïde d'Anjou. Sa famille, ses mariages, sa descendance", in Le Moyen Age 103,1 (1997): 9-52. Digital copy on academia.edu, accessed 24 January 2018.