William I, Count of Burgundy

William I, Count of Burgundy

Imaginary 19th-century portrait in the Cathédrale Saint-Jean de Besançon
Spouse(s) Stephanie (a.k.a. Etiennette)
Noble family Ivrea
Father Renaud I, Count of Burgundy
Mother Alice of Normandy
Born 1020
Died 12 November 1087(1087-11-12)
Besançon
Buried Besançon Cathedral

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 Renaud I and Alice of Normandy, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. William was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callixtus 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, 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).[1]

Children of Stephanie (order uncertain):

Note

  1. 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 The Crusade of 1101, James Lea Cate, A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years, ed.Kenneth Meyer Setton and M. W. Baldwin, (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969), 364 note32.

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Preceded by
Renaud I
Count of Burgundy
1057–1087
Succeeded by
Reginald II
Preceded by
Guy II
Count of Mâcon
1078–1087
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