Constance de Bourgogne

Events

Date of Birth: 1046.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Gambra Gutiérrez.

Date of Death: the fall of 1093.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Reilly (p. 248). Glocker (p. 344) gives 1092.

Relationships

Father: Robert I, duke of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:538), Gambra Gutiérrez, by Bouchard (p. 258), and by Glocker (p. 344).

Mother: Hélie (also called Petronilla) de Semur-en-Brionnais.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:538) and by Gambra Gutiérrez.

Spouse: Hugues (II), count of Chalon-sur-Saône.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:538), Cokayne (p. 82), by Bouchard (p. 258), and by Glocker (p. 344).

Spouse: Alfonso VI, king of Castile and León. Married December 1079.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:538), Gambra Gutiérrez, by Bouchard (p. 258), and by Glocker (p. 344).

Children (by Alfonso):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Urraca I (1080 - 8 March 1126), queen of Castile and León, married (1) Raymond de Bourgogne, count of Galicia; married (2) Alfonso I, king of Aragón and Navarre.

References

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198 (Cornell University Press, 1987).

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Gambra Gutiérrez, Andrés. "Constanza de Borgoña" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Reilly, Bernard F. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988).

Online Biographies

Constanza de Borgoña (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)