Guigues (IV)

Also known as Wigo.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 7 September and 18 October, 996.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

(possible) Father: Guigues (III).

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 64). He suggests this ancestry: Guigues (III) was the son of dom Guiges (II) de Vion and Gandalmoda; Guigues (II) was the son of Guigues (I); Guigues (I) was the son of Rostaing (II) and Bertilde; Rostaing (II) was the son of Rostaing (I) and Sufficie.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Fredeburga.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 62) and by Cawley. Manteyer speculates about her origin (p. 63 ff.) and states (p. 70) that she later remarried, which Cawley disputes.

Children:

Humbert, bishop of Grenoble.

(possibly) Richard.

Guigues (V) married Gotelene.

References

Cawley, Charles. “GUIGUES [I]” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Manteyer, Georges de. “Les origines du Dauphiné de Viennois: la première race des comtes d’Albon (843-1228)” in Bulletin de la Société d’études des Hautes-Alpes (1925). pp. 50-140; pp. 307-426.