Henri “le Damoiseau” de Bourgogne

Events


Date of Birth: about 1035.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Glocker (p. 344).


Date of Death: 27 January, between 1070 and 1074.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.


Relationships


Father: Robert I, duke of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:538), by Richer (p. 14), by Glocker (p. 344), and by Bouchard (1987, p. 258; 2001, p. 54).

Mother: Hélie de Semur.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:538) and by Richer (p. 14).


Spouse: unknown.


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.)


Hugues I (1056 or 1057 - 29 August 1093), duke of Burgundy.


Eudes I “Borel” (about 1060 - 23 March 1103), duke of Burgundy, married Sibylle de Bourgogne.


Robert (1059 - 18 September 1111), bishop of Langres.


Béatrix married Guy (III), lord of Vignory.


Helie, nun.


Renaud (about 1064 - 10 January 1092).


Henri (died 1 November 1112), later Henrique, count of Portugal, married Teresa de Castilla y León.


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).


Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).


Cawley, Charles. HENRI de Bourgogne "le Damoiseau" 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).


Richer, Jean. Les ducs de Bourgogne et la formation du duché du xie au xive siècle (Publications de l’université de Dijon, 1954).