Ermengarde de Tonnerre

Events

Date of Birth: about 1023 - 1026.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: before 1090.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Rainard, count of Tonnerre.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:197) and by Bouchard (p. 370).

Mother: Helvis.

This relationship is given by Petit (2:429) and by Bouchard (p. 370).

Spouse: Guillaume I, count of Nevers and of Auxerre.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:197) and by Bouchard (p. 370).

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 Cawley.)

Renaud (II) de Nevers (died 5 August 1089) married (1) Ide-Raymonde de Lyon; married (2) Agnès de Baugency.

Guillaume (II) de Nevers (died after 1099), count of Tonnerre.

Robert de Nevers (died 12 February 1095), bishop of Auxerre.

Ermengarde de Nevers married Hubert, viscount of Maine, on 6 December 1067.

Helvise de Nevers married Guillaume “Crespin”, count of Evreux.

References

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).

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

Cawley, Charles. “ERMENGARDE de Tonnerre” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Petit, Ernest. Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la race capétienne avec des documents inédits et des pièces justificatives Tome II (Paris: 1888).