Guillaume (William) d'Autun

Abt 751 - 812  (61 years)

• Name	Guillaume (William) d'Autun
  Birth	Abt 751	Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 May 812	Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France   [1, 2]
  Burial	Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France   [2]
  Person ID	I73350	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Thierry (Theodoric), Count of Autun and Toulouse IV,   b. 730, Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d. 15 Dec 793, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Auda Martel,   b. 724, Heristal, Liege, Belgium d. 22 Oct 804, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	749	Autun, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France
  Family ID	F24704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Guitberge de Hornbach,   b. Hornbach, Bergstrasse, Hessen, Germany d. Somme, Picardie, France
  Children	1. Rotlinde de Gellone,   b. Abt 792   d. Aft 820 (Age > 29 years)  [natural]   2. Duke of Narbonne, Count of Barcelona Bernard d'Autun, Marquis of Septimania and Count of Barcelona I,   b. 797, Bohain-en-Vermandois, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France d. 17 Apr 818 (Age 21 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F24723	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 751 - Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France Death - 28 May 812 - Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France Burial - - Aniane, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Some histories shown him as Judiarch of Narbonne and Exilarch of Baghdad, and secretly a prince of the house of David. This theory derives from Arthur Zuckerman's book, "A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900" (New York, 1972), the thesis of which is not accepted by all historians. Regardless, William was a very impressive individual about whom the largest body of heroic poetry in medieval France, the "Saint William cycle" of chansons de geste, developed in the centuries following his death. According to Pierre Béstournas d`Haucourt in "Heraldique ett Genealogie, 1981, p.363: Guilhem, Margrave of Toulouse, later monk at Gellone, canonized as St. William of the Desert (St. Guilhem du Désert),, * ca. 752, +8112. The remains of the monastery where he resided and which was named after him (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert) were transported to Neww York and re-built in the Cloisters complex of the Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier the 20th century. Additionally, David H. Kelley identifies him as the exilarch Natronai, both are questionable, especially in view of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and it's genealogical records in 70 CE. Although it should be noted that Charlemagne did bring back a Jewish official to Germany and this is supposed to be the father of Guillaume. Randy Jones identifies his father as Thierry or Theuderic d'Autun and his mother as Alda de Francia. There is no supporting evidence for this, so I am going with the limited data as above and that of the Endfield-Bryant Genealogy. JCT 12/23/2000

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). [S58] Ancestry.com, International, Find A Grave Index for Select Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).