Gerberge de Mâcon

Events

Date of Birth: about 985.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Glocker (p. 319).

Date of Death: between 1019 and 1024.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Glocker (p. 319).

Relationships

Father: Otte-Guillaume, count of Mâcon, count of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 271), by Glocker (p. 319), by Bouchard (1987, p. 270; 2001, p. 18), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Ermentrude de Roucy.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 271), by Glocker (p. 319), by Bouchard (1987, p. 270; 2001, p. 18), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Guillaume II (or III), count of Provence.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 271), by Glocker (p. 319), by Bouchard (2001, p. 18), and by Poly (p. 34).

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.)

Guillaume (IV), count of Provence.

Foulques Bertrand, count of Provence, married Ermengarde.

Geoffroy, marquis and count of Provence, married Étiennette.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Otto alias Guillaume, or Otte-Guillaume” 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).

Cawley, Charles. GERBERGE de Mâcon in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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).

Manteyer, Georges de. La Provence du premier au douzième siècle (Paris: 1908).

Poly, Jean-Pierre. La Provence et la société féodale 879-1166 (Paris:1976).