Guillaume Ier of Burgundy

Guillaume Ier of Burgundy known as Guillaume Large the or Bold Head (1020 - 1087) count de Bourgogne, count de Mâcon and father of the Pope Calixte II

Biography

Born the 1020, wire of the count Renaud Ier of Burgundy and Adelaide of Normandy (girl of the duke Richard II of Normandy).

1057 it succeeds on September 3rd, 1057 his/her father who dies. Guillaume 1st of Burgundy and his oldest sons Renaud II of Burgundy then Etienne Ier of Burgundy, are very powerful counts of Burgundy, reigning on grounds largely exceeding the limits of powerful and vast the Comté of Burgundy. They are vassal against their liking of the Germanic empire following the will of the king Rodolphe III of Burgundy died in 1032 and in the war of succession of Burgundy (1032-1034).

It Marie in first weddings in 1043 with Gertrude de Limbourg, which would be mother according to Moréri d' Ermentrude marries Thierry de Bar; of Guy of Burgundy, pope under the name of Callixte II, and of Etienne Bold Head.

It Marie in second weddings with Étiennette of Longwy-Metz (girl of the duke Adalbert of Lorraine). It had the following children:

  • Octavien de Quingey (Holy Octavien) (- 1128), oldest son of Guillaume, it refused the succession of the county to enter the orders. He was bishop of Savone.
  • Renaud II of Burgundy († 1097 in Crusade), its successor with his death. Marry the countess Régine d' Oltingen (girl of the count Conon d' Oltingen, Region of Basle in German-speaking Switzerland)
  • Etienne Ier of Burgundy († 1102 in Croisade) it succeeds his/her father then with his brother like Count de Bourgogne (Béatrice wife of Lorraine, girl of the duke Gerard Ier of Lorraine).
  • Raymond of Burgundy († 1107 in Crusade) wife in 1090 Urraque Anger of Castille (girl of the King Alphonse VI of Castille) and becomes King of Leon and Galicia
  • Guy of Burgundy administrator of the Archevêché of Besancon of his/her brother then elected 160 eme Pape in 1119 under the name of Calixte II in the Abbaye of Cluny of the Comté of Mason. Wire of the count de Bourgogne, cousin or relative of the emperor of Germany and kings de France, of England and Castille, GUI was known for its whole character, its spirit of decision, its tenacity, promptness even the brutality of its remarks. He closes the Querelle of the Nominations, which would be worth to him the title of “Father of Peace”. Does instigator of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle
  • Sybille marry in 1080 the Duc Eudes Ier of Burgundy
  • Gisele marries in 1090 the Count Humbert II of Savoy (their daughter Adèle of Savoy will be Reine of France in 1115 by marrying Louis VI of France)
  • Adélaide
  • Berthe (? - 1097) wife in 1093 the king Alphonse VI of Castille ()
  • Eudes (? - 1087)
  • Hugues III of Burgundy becomes Archevêque of Besancon, Prince of the German Empire in 1085
  • Clémence (1070-1129) wife in 1092 the count Robert II of Flanders and in second weddings the duke Godefroid Ier of the Brabant (1060-1140)
  • Stéphanie or Etiennette, marries Prince Lambert (or François) of Royans.
  • Ermentrude marries the count Thierry Ier of Montbeliard, of Altkirch and of Ferrette in 1065.

1039 the archbishop of Besancon, Hugues Ier Saline, becomes the right-hand man favorite of new the Germanic emperor, Henri III of the Holy roman Empire (nephew of preceding). The emperor then grants a certain frank autonomy and the right car to manage itself by his own government in the county of Burgundy from which it is named Chancelier and is rewarded very largely for his total and very devoted collaboration and for its services for Vassal to his Suzerain.

1043 the Germanic emperor Henri III comes to Besancon, to become engaged to Agnès of Aquitaine, niece of the count Renaud Ier of Burgundy, and girl of the duke Guillaume V of Aquitaine. For this occasion, the archbishop of Besancon, Hugues Ier the Saline ones, obtains regalities on the town of Besancon (rights legal, political, tax and economic…) It is named prince of the Germanic empire (maximum row before emperor) and reigns as a sovereign on the city him and his future successors with the emperor and the pope Gregoire VII for only superiors. He escapes the capacity from the counts de Bourgogne

1076 the Germanic emperor Henri IV of the Holy roman Empire is opposed to the absolute capacities of the pope Gregoire VII and sees excommunicated by the the Vatican what deeply discredits it in Christian Europe deeply where the pope has a great capacity on the heads crowned of then. It is the beginning of the power struggle between the Germanic emperor and the the Vatican (Querelle of the Nominations).

1078 the count Guy II of Mâcon is made monk with the Abbaye of Cluny and yields its title and its grounds to his/her cousin Guillaume Ier of Burgundy.

1085 Guillaume Ier of Burgundy is affirmed like the most important character of the county of Burgundy and puts the hand on the ecclesiastical capacity after the death of the powerful archbishops of Besancon, Hugues Ier the Saline ones and Hugues II while making there order its sons Hugues III of Burgundy Archevêque and Guy of Burgundy (future Pope under the name of Calixte II) administrator of the Diocèse of his/her brother.

1087 it dies with Besancon with old 67 years and is buried with the Saint-Etienne cathedral, replaced with the XVIIIe century by the Cathédrale Midsummer's Day, where the burials were transferred from the counts de Bourgogne.

Its sons Renaud II of Burgundy and Etienne Ier of Burgundy succeed to him and die in Croisade in Holy Land, followed in that by their brother Raymond of Burgundy, king de Leon and of Galicia, which will largely weaken the capacity of their family.

See too

External bonds

  • genealogical districts of Otte-Guillaume

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