William I, Count of Burgundy
- William I, Count of Burgundy
William I (1020 – 1087), called the Great ("le Grand" or "Tête Hardie", "the Rash") was Count of Burgundy and Mâcon from 1057 to 1087. He was a son of Renaud I and Adelaide, daughter of Richard II of Normandy. William was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callistus II.
In 1057, he succeeded his father and reigned over a territory larger than that of the Franche-Comté itself. In 1087, he died in Besançon and was buried there in the cathedral of St John.
William married a woman named Stephanie. [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: "Onomastioque et Parenté dans l'Occident medieval," K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2-6.]
They had many children:
*Renaud II, William's successor, died on First Crusade
*Stephen I, successor to Renaud II, Stephen died on the Crusade of 1101
*Raymond, married (1090) Urraca, the reigning queen of Castile
*Guy of Vienne, elected pope, in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny. as Calixtus II
*Sybilla (or Maud), married (1080) Eudes I of Burgundy
*Gisela, married (1090) Humbert II of Savoy and then Renier I of Montferrat
*Adelaide
*Eudes
*Hugh III, Archbishop of Besançon
*Clementia married Robert II, Count of Flanders and was Regent, during his absence
*Stephanie married Lambert, Prince de Royans (d.1119)
*Ermentrude, married (1065) Thierry I of Montbéliard
*(perhaps) Bertha wife of Alphonso VI of Castile
Note
References
* [http://gilles.maillet.free.fr/index2.html Portail sur Histoire Bourgogne et Histoire Franche-Comté] , Gilles Maillet.
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDY%20Kingdom.htm#_Toc147820419 FMG on William I, Comté de Burgundy]
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