Guigues (X), count of Albon

Events

Date of Birth: about 1120.

The date is given by Manteyer (p. 111).

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 29 July 1162.

Place of Death: Château de Vizille.

The date and place are given by Cawley.

Place of Burial: Notre Dame de Grenoble.

The place is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Guigues (IX), count of Albon

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 110) and by Cox (p. 368).

Mother: Clemence de Mâcon

This relationship is given by Manteyer (p. 110) and by Giordanengo.

Spouse: Beatrix. Married about 1155.

This relationship is given by Giordanengo.

Children:

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

Beatrix (1161 - 15 December 1228) married (1) Alberic “Taillefer” de Toulouse, count of Saint-Gilles; married (2) Hugues III, duke of Burgundy.

References

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

Cox, Eugene. "The Kingdom of Burgundy, the Lands of the House of Savoy and Adjacent Territories" in The New Cambridge Medieval History Vol. 5 (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

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.