Otte-Guillaume of Burgundy

Otte-Guillaume Ier of Burgundy or Otte-Guillaume de Mâcon (962 - 1026) was the first Count Palatine of Burgundy (982 - 1026) and counts de Mâcon by marriage with Ermentrude de Roucy (heiress of the Comté of Mâcon by its first marriage with the count Aubry II of Mâcon † 982).

Biography

Born in 962. Wire of the king Aubert Ier of Italy and Gerberge de Chalon (girl of the count Lambert of Trawl-net and Autun)

His/her father belongs to the French kings who divide themselves and reign on old the Carolingian empire of Charlemagne and for this reason, it constitutes to him, at the time of the feudalization and of the empire division old of Charlemagne in Duché and county S feudal, the Comté of Burgundy around Dole in the the Jura in Franche-Comté (about the current Franche-Comté, the Comté of Monbéliard in less). vassal County of Burgundy of the Duchy of Burgundy (made up in 858), and of the kings de France Carolingian S.

It becomes count de Mâcon by marrying Adélaïde Ermentrude de Roucy (? - 1005) (girl of Renaud de Roucy, count of Rheims and Roucy, and Albérade de Hainaut - itself girl of the duke Gislebert de Lotharingie and of Gerberge of Saxony. Adelaide de Roucy was the heiress of the county of Mâcon by its first marriage without posterity with Aubry II of Mâcon † 982). Otte-Guillaume has as children of this marriage:

972 his/her father dies with old 41 years.

973 his/her mother Gerberge de Chalon, widow, remarie with the duke Henri Ier of Burgundy from which it does not have a child. (He is thus the beautiful son of sound Suzerain the duke of Burgundy by the remarriage of its mother).

982 it becomes first Count Palatine of Burgundy of the Maison of Ivrée of the Comté of Burgundy by the inhabitant of Franche-Comté field of its father and by the title of Count Palatine of Burgundy given by his/her beautiful father the duke of Burgundy.

995 it associates his/her son Guy Ier de Mâcon with old 20 years with the capacity of Count.

1002 it bequeaths the county of Mâcon to his/her son Guy Ier de Mâcon then 27 years old.

1002 with died of sound beautiful father the duke Henri Ier of Burgundy without heir, it claims without any direct bond of filiation to the succession of the Duché of Burgundy. He regards himself then as duke of Burgundy during 2 years.

1004 the Duché of Burgundy is annexed by the king Robert II of France to the kingdom of France (which will give it in 1032 to its third wire Robert Ier of Burgundy).

1006 premature death of his/her son Guy Ier de Mâcon with old 31 years without to have succeeded his/her father with the head of the county of Burgundy. Otte II of Mâcon, the son of Guy Ier de Mâcon, inherits the Comté of Mâcon.

1016 Otte-Guillaume marries in second weddings Adélaïde of Anjou (942 - 1026 with Arles).

The king Rodolphe III of Burgundy (last king de Bourgogne for lack of heir) recognizes its nephew of the house of Ottoniens, the Germanic Empereur Henri II of the Holy roman Empire as protective suzerain and heir to his kingdom whose the Comté depends on Burgundy. Otte-Guillaume and of another French lords revolt then against the authority of suzerainty on the Royaume of Burgundy and on the Comté of Burgundy legitimately asserted by the Germanic emperor. (The Comté of Burgundy falls under the Suzerain be from the Germanic Empereur to died from Rodolphe III from Burgundy in 1032).

1026 it dies the September 21st with old 64 years. His/her son Renaud Ier of Burgundy succeeds to him like count de Bourgogne.

See too

External bonds

  • genealogical districts of Otte-Guillaume

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