Ermentrude de Roucy

Events

Date of Birth: about 950.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Baldwin and by Glocker (p. 297).

Date of Death: 5 March, between 1002 and 1004.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Baldwin. Glocker (p. 297) gives 5 March in 1003 or 1004. Cawley gives 5 October.

Relationships

Father: Ragenold (died 967), count of Roucy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (8:410; 8:861), by Glocker (p. 297), by Le Jan (p. 214), and by Baldwin. Bouchard (1987, p. 269) argues that the evidence for it is not convincing.

Mother: Alberada, daughter of Giselbert, duke of Lorraine.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (8:410; 8:861), by Glocker (p. 297), by Bouchard (1987, 269; 2001, p. 18), by Le Jan (p. 214), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Aubry II, count of Mâcon.

This relationship is given by Baldwin, by Bouchard (2001, p. 18), and by Glocker (p. 297).

Spouse: Otte-Guillaume (died 1026), count of Mâcon, count of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (8:410), by Glocker (p. 297), by Bouchard (2001, p. 18), and by Baldwin.

Children (by Aubry):

(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 Baldwin.)

(probably) Béatrix married (1) Geoffroy, count of Gâtinais; married (2) Hugues du Perche.

Children (by Otte-Guillaume):

Guy, joint count of Mâcon.

Renaud I (died September 1057), count of Burgundy, married (1) Adélaïde, daughter of Richard II de Normandie.

Mathilde (died 1005) married Landy de Monceau, count of Nevers.

Gerberge married Guillaume III, count of Provence.

Agnès de Mâcon (died 10 November 1068) married (1) Guillaume V d’Aquitaine; married (2) Geoffroy II d’Anjou.

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).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Ermentrude de Roucy” in The Henry Project. (2008).

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

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

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).

Le Jan, Régine. Femmes, pouvoir et société dans le haut Moyen Age. (Picard, 2001).