William I (1020 – 12 November 1087), called the Great (le Grand or Tête Hardie, "the Stubborn"), was Count of Burgundy from 1057 to 1087 and Mâcon from 1078 to 1087. He was a son of Reginald I, Count of Burgundy and Alice of Normandy, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy.[1] William was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callixtus II.
William I | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1020 |
| Died | 12 November 1087 Besançon |
| Buried | Besançon Cathedral |
| Noble family | Ivrea |
| Spouse(s) | Stephanie (a.k.a. Etiennette) |
| Issue | Renaud II, Count of Burgundy Stephen I, Count of Burgundy Raymond of Burgundy Sybilla of Burgundy Gisela of Burgundy Clementia of Burgundy Guy of Vienne |
| Father | Renaud I, Count of Burgundy |
| Mother | Alice of Normandy |
In 1057, William succeeded his father and reigned over a territory larger than that of the Franche-Comté itself. In 1087, he died in Besançon, Prince-Archbishopric of Besançon, Holy Roman Empire—an independent city within the County of Burgundy. He was buried in Besançon's Cathedral of St John.
William married a woman named Stephanie (a.k.a. Etiennette).[2]
Children of Stephanie (order uncertain):
- Renaud II, William's successor; died on First Crusade[3]
- Stephen I, successor to Renaud II;[4] died on the Crusade of 1101[3]
- Raymond of Burgundy, who married Urraca of León and Castile and thus was given the government of Galicia (Spain)[4]
- Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy[5]
- Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat[5]
- Clementia married Robert II, Count of Flanders[6] and was regent during his absence. She married, secondly, Godfrey I, Count of Leuven[5]
- Guy of Vienne, elected pope, in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny, as Callixtus II[3]
- William
- Eudes
- Hugh III, Archbishop of Besançon[3]
- Stephanie married Lambert, lord of Peyrins (brother of Adhemar of Le Puy)
- Ermentrude, married (in 1065) Theodoric I, Count of Montbéliard[5]
References
edit- ^ Keats-Rohan 1993, p. 43.
- ^ She was identified as the daughter of Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine in an article by Szabolcs de Vajay in Annales de Bourgogne, XXXII:247–267 (Oct.–Dec. 1960), but the author subsequently made an unqualified retraction of this claim in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in Prosopographica et Genealogica, vol. 3: Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident medieval, K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2–6.
- ^ a b c d Cate 1969, p. 364.
- ^ a b Stroll 2004, p. 9.
- ^ a b c d Stroll 2004, p. 8.
- ^ Bouchard 1987, p. 146, 273.
Sources
edit- Bouchard, Constance Brittain (1987). Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and Church in Burgundy, 980-1198. Cornell University Press.
- Cate, James Lea (1969). "The Crusade of 1101". In Setton, Kenneth Meyer; Baldwin, M. W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years. The University of Wisconsin Press.
- Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1993). "The Prosopography of Post-Conquest England: Four case studies". Medieval Prosopography. 14 (1 (Spring)): 1–52.
- Stroll, Mary (2004). Calixtus II (1119-1124): A Pope Born to Rule. Brill.
- Portail sur Histoire Bourgogne et Histoire Franche-Comté, Gilles Maillet.