Rudolf II, king of Italy

King of Upper Burgundy

King of Italy

King of Lower Burgundy

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 12 or 13 July 937.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Schieffer. Althoff (p. 368) gives 11 July 937.

Relationships

Father: Rudolf I, king of Upper Burgundy.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Demotz (pp. 36, 60), by Bouchard (p. 116), by Bretscher-Gisiger, and by Bühler (p. 752).

Mother: Willa.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Jurot, by Bretscher-Gisiger, and by Bouchard (p. 116). Jurot states that she was possibly the daughter of Boson de Vienne. Demotz (p. 98) suggests that perhaps Willa was Rudolf's second wife, and not the mother of Rudolf II.

Spouse: Berta von Schwaben.

This relationship is given by Schieffer, by Demotz (p. 210), by Bouchard (p. 116), by Bretscher-Gisiger, and by Bühler (pp. 213, 752).

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.)

Conrad I “le Pacifique” (died 19 October 993), king of Burgundy, married (1) Adelane; married (2) Mathilde de France.

Burchard, archbishop of Lyon.

Adélaïde married (1) Lotario II, king of Italy; married (2) Otto I “der Grosse”, Holy Roman Emperor.

Rudolf.

References

Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studieren zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984).

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

Bretscher-Gisiger, Ch. Rudolfinger genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Bühler, Heinz. “Richinza von Spietzenberg und ihr Verwandtenkreis” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im Alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996).

Bühler, Heinz. “Wie gelangten die Grafen von Tüblingen zum schwäbischen Pfalzgrafenamt?” in Adel, Klöster und Burgherren im Alten Herzogtum Schwaben: gesammelte Aufsätze (Weissenhorn: Konrad, 1996).

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

Demotz, François. La Bourgogne, Dernier des Royaumes Carolingiens (Lausanne, 2008).

Jurot, Romain. “Rodolphe I^er” in Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse..

Schieffer, Rudolf. “Rudolfinger” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 22 (2005), S. 198-200 [Onlinefassung].