Guillaume I “le Grand”, count of Burgundy

Events

Date of Birth: about 1024.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: 12 November 1087.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by père Anselme (8:410) and by Glocker (p. 338). Cokayne (p. 80) gives 11 November.

Place of Burial: Besançon, S. Étienne.

The place is given by père Anselme (8:410) and by Cokayne (p. 82).

Relationships

Father: Renaud I, count of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (8:410), by Cokayne (p. 82), by Dufour (fig. 7), by Bouchard (p. 272), and by Glocker (p. 338).

Mother: Adélaïde de Normandie.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (8:410), by Cokayne (p. 82), by Bouchard (p. 272), and by Dufour fig. 7).

Spouse: Étiennette (about 1035 - after 19 October 1088).

This relationship is given by Bouchard (p. 273) and by Cawley, who discusses conjectures about her ancestry. It is also given by Glocker (p. 338).

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.)

Eudes (died before 12 November 1087).

Renaud II, count of Burgundy, married Regina von Oltingen.

Guillaume (died before 1090).

Ermentrude married Thierry de Mousson.

Guy de Bourgogne (about 1060 - 13 December 1124), later Archbishop of Vienne and then Pope Calixtus II.

Etienne “Tête-Hardi” married Béatrix de Lorraine.

Sibylle (about 1065 - after 1103) married Eudes I “Borel”, duke of Burgundy.

Raymond (about 1070 - September 1107) married Urraca I, queen of Castile and León.

Hugues (died 13 September 1103) Archbishop of Besançon.

Gisèle (about 1075 - after 1133) married (1) Humbert II “le Renforcé”, count of Maurienne and of Savoy; married (2) Ranieri I, margrave of Montferrat.

Clemence (about 1078 - about 1133) married (1) Robert II, count of Flanders; married (2) Godefroi V, duke of Lower Lorraine.

Etiennette married Lambert Françoise de Valence.

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).

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

Cawley, Charles. “GUILLAUME de Bourgogne” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Dufour, Jean. "Louis VI, roi de France (1108-1137), à la lumière des actes royaux et des source narratives" in Comples rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 134e année, N.2, 1990. pp. 456-482.

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).