Guigues (VIII), count of Albon

Guigues is given various numbers in various sources.

Events

Date of Birth: between about 1050 and 1070.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The range of dates is given by Cawley. Manteyer (p. 83) gives about 1050 - 1060.

Date of Death: 21 December 1125.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley. Manteyer (p. 92) states that he appears for the last time approving a gift to the Temple 30 January 1131/32 and died 21 December, probably in 1132 or 1133.

Relationships

Father: Guigues (VII), count of Albon.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 83) and by Giordanengo.

Mother: Pétronille.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 83) and by Cawley.

Spouse: Mathilde “Regina”.

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 88) and by Giordanengo. Mathilda is recorded to have been of England. There have been different conjectures about her parentage. (Manteyer makes an elaborate argument on pp. 344 ff.) “Regina” has sometimes been interpreted as meaning she was a queen, but has also been taken as a name or byname.

Children:

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

Guigues (IX) (about 1090 or 1000 - 28 June 1142), count of Albon, married Clemence de Mâcon.

Humbert (died 1147), archbishop of Vienne.

Garsende married Guillaume I, count of Provence.

Mathilde (born about 1112-1116, died after 30 March 1148), married Amédée III, count of Maurienne and of Savoy.

References

Cawley, Charles. “GUIGUES (V)” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Giordanengo, Gérard. Le droit féodal dans les pay de droit écrit: L’exemple de la Provence et du Dauphiné XII^e-début XIV siècle. (École Française de Rome: 1988).

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.