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 966 - 1026 (60 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Otto, King of Lombardy I was born in 966 in Ivrea, Torino, Piemonte, Italy (son of King of Italy, Marquis of Ivrea Adalbert and Countess of Burgundy Gerberge); died on 21 Sep 1026 in Dijon, Cantal, Auvergne, France; was buried in Dijon, Cantal, Auvergne, France. Notes:
Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (94:33) calls him King of Lombardy and Count of Burgundy and Macon. This is also the source for his 2nd marriage to ADELAIDE/BLANCHE OF ANJOU.
Quoting from Christopher Cope's "The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy": "CONRAD was succeeded as King of Burgundy in 993 by his son Rudolph III. In 1006 the EMPORER HENRY II siezed Basel and extracted a promise from Rudolph to name him as his heir. Rudolph was childless and HENRY was his oldest nephew; however the prospect was anethema in Burgundy to high and low alike, and when Otto William, the most powerful lord in the kingdom, raised the standard of revolt in 1016, many rallied to him; few Burgundians wished to be ruled by the alien Germans. But Otto William was more than a folk hero, he was a man of high ambition. A contemporary wrote of him, 'Though nomially a vassal of the King of Burgundy, Otto William was resolved to be soverign master of his own territories.' "Otto Willam whose mother was Burgundian, was the son and grandson of the last 'national' kings of Italy, now ousted by the OTTONIAN EMPORERS. He was initially Count of Macon and Count of Burgundy, which means he held the lands north and west of the Jura known today as Franche Compte. In 1002 he was chosen by the bishops and barons of the area to succeed his stepfather [Henry I Capet] as Duke of Burgundy, but he was expelled from the Duchy after a long conflict by the KING OF FRANCE, ROBERT CAPET. The latter's younger son, also ROBERT, became Duke of Burgundy, founding the junior branch of the Capetian dynasty...." "Unhappily Otto William divided his efforts between his ambitons in Italy and in Burgundy and was defeated in both - perhaps the first case of a Burgundian prince failing in Burgundy because of involvement in Italy. But he and his allies continued to defy Rudolph and to challenge HENRY's claims to the succession. Their efforts seemed rewarded when HENRY died in 1024, for his successor, CONRAD, THE FIRST FRANCONIAN EMPORER, had only a very distant claim of blood to the Burgundian throne. However, he had married one of Rudolph's nieces and in 1026 Otto William died, and so Rudolph set aside the rights of his [i.e. Rudolph's) nephew and heir ODO OF BLOIS [aka EUDES II, COUNT OF BLOIS AND CHAMPAIGN] and on his death-bed in 1032 he sent Burgundy's regalia to CONRAD."
Otto married Adelaide d'Anjou before 1016. Adelaide (daughter of Fulk III "The Black", Count of Anjou and Hildegarde de Lorraine) died in 1026. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Otto married of Rheims Ermentrude de Roucy about 978 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. Ermentrude (daughter of Count of Rheims and Roucy Renaud of Roucy, Count of Roucy and Alberade de Roucy) was born about 963 in Rheim, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died before 5 Mar 1005 in Macon, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Comtesse de Bourgogne Agnes de Macon was born in 995 in of Bourgogne, France; died on 10 Nov 1068.
- Renaud, Count of Burgundy I was born in 990 in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; died on 4 Sep 1057 in Fecamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was buried in Besancon, Franche-Comté, France.
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Generation: 2
| 3. | Countess of Burgundy Gerberge was born about 940 in Chalon, Italy (daughter of Count of Macon Otto Letald and Countess of Challons Adelaide de Chalon); died about 989. Children:
- 1. Otto, King of Lombardy I was born in 966 in Ivrea, Torino, Piemonte, Italy; died on 21 Sep 1026 in Dijon, Cantal, Auvergne, France; was buried in Dijon, Cantal, Auvergne, France.
- of Este Bertha Ivrea was born about 968 in Este, Italy; died after 29 Dec 1037.
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Generation: 3
| 5. | of Tuscany Willa was born about 900 in Arles, France (daughter of Margrave of Tuscany Boso); died about 966 in Bamberg. Children:
- 2. King of Italy, Marquis of Ivrea Adalbert was born in 936 in of Lombardy, Italy; died on 30 Apr 971 in Italy.
- of Italy Rosele of Italy was born in 955 in Ivrea, Torino, Piemonte, Italy; died on 26 Jan 1003 in Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; was buried in Ghent, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
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| 6. | Count of Macon Otto Letald was born about 919 in Macon, France (son of Letald de Macon and Ermengarde de Chalons). Otto married Countess of Challons Adelaide de Chalon about 936 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. Adelaide (daughter of Duke of Burgundy Gislebert and of Burgundy Ermengarde) was born about 920 in Marmagne, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France; died on 19 Aug 967 in Meaux, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France; was buried in Saint-Aubin, Departement de Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 4
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