Events
Date of Birth: about 1010 - 1015.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The range of dates is given by Stewart, who suggests that a date near 1011 is most likely. Glocker (p. 328) gives about 1011.
Date of Death: 18 or 21 March 1075.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Stewart. Glocker (p. 328) gives 21 March 1076.
Relationships
Father: Robert II (died 1031), king of France.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:537), by Lewis (p. 24), by Glocker (p. 328), by Bouchard (1987, 257; p. 2001, p. 18), and by Stewart.
Mother: Constance d’Arles.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:537), by Lewis (p. 24), by Bouchard (2001, p. 18), and by Stewart.
Spouse: Hélie (also called Petronilla) de Semur-en-Brionnais.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:538), by Richer (p. 11), by Glocker (p. 328), by Bouchard (1987, p. 257), and by Stewart.
Spouse: Ermengarde d’Anjou.
This relationship is given by Glocker (p. 328), by Bouchard (1987, p. 257), by Stewart, and by Baldwin.
Children (by Hélie):
(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. Richer (p. 14) states that Robert and Simon were of Robert's second marriage.)
Hugues de Bourgogne (about 1034 - about 1059 -1060).
Constance de Bourgogne (about 1045 - 1093) married (1) Hugues, count of Chalon-sur-Saône; married (2) Alfonso VI, king of Castile.
Robert de Bourgogne married a daughter of Roger I, count of Sicily.
Simon de Bourgogne (died about 1087).
Children (by Ermengarde):
Audearde (Hildegarde) de Bourgogne married Guillaume VIII, duke of Aquitaine.
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).
Baldwin, Stewart. “Ermengarde d'Anjou” in The Henry Project.
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. “Robert de France” 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).
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).
Stewart, Peter. “Robert II le Pieux (the Pious)” in The Henry Project. (2012)
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).