Guillaume Ier of Provence

Guillaume Ier of Provence known as the Liberator , (born v. 955 - died in 993, after August 29th), wire of Boson II, count d' Arles and of Constancy of Provence, it was count de Provence of 968 with 993.

Biography

With his brother Roubaud, it succeeds their father in 960, the county of Provence their pertaining in joint possession.

He marries between 968 and April 970, Arsinde de Comminges (c.950-983), girl of Arnaud, count of Comminges and Arsinde of Carcassonne.
Of this union would have been born:

Odile of Provence known as Odile of Nice (c.976-c.1032)
Guillaume II of Provence (c.981-front. May 30th, 1018)

After with the removal of the abbot Mayeul (July 972) by the bands Buckwheats installed in the Massive of the Moors since the end of IXe century, the count Guillaume takes the head of an army and with the Bataille of Tourtour, in 973, the provençaux ones definitively crush Buckwheats and drive out them of Provence.
This victory obtained without the troops of Conrad is important: it makes it possible Guillaume to obtain the suzerainty in fact of Provence. It distributes the grounds reconquered to its vassal and thus creates feudality of Provence.

Become marquis de Provence in 979, it settles with Arles at the beginning of the Années 980. His first wife Arsende de Comminges (c.950-983) has suddenly died, he marries in 984 in this city, against the opinion of the pope, Adélaïde of Anjou which has just separated from her husband, future king de France, Louis V. The couple would have had two children:

Constancy of Arles (986 - 1032) queen of France by its marriage with Robert II about the year 1000,
and another girl Ermengarde of Arles, of which filiation is disputed; Ermengarde of Arles marries thereafter Robert Ier of Auvergne.

In 992, it restores important fields with the monastery Midsummer's Day of Arles. Very religious, he becomes monk at the end of his life and dies in Avignon, after August 29th 993.

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