Margrave of Tuscany Boso

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Willa married King of Italy, Marquis of Ivrea II Berenger about 926 in Arles, France. II (son of Adalbert, Count and Margrave of Ivrea and of Tuscany Ermengarda) was born in 900 in Italy; died on 6 Jul 966 in Bamberg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Deposed 963. Count of Aosta.

Adalbert married Countess of Burgundy Gerberge about 954 in Burgundy, France. Gerberge (daughter of Count of Macon Otto Letald and Countess of Challons Adelaide de Chalon) was born about 940 in Chalon, Italy; died about 989. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burke says her name was Rosalie.

Rosele married Arnulf, Count of Flanders II in 968. Arnulf (son of Baldwin, Count of Flanders III and Mathilde von Billung Sachsen) was born in Dec 961 in Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; died on 30 Mar 987 in Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; was buried in Ghent, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Bertha married Olderico Manfredo di Torino about 995 in Susa, Torino, Italy. Olderico (son of Count of Torino I Manfredo and Prangarda di Canossa) was born about 972 in Torino, Italy; died on 23 Dec 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married of Luxemburg Otgive de Luxembourg about 1012. Otgive (daughter of Count of Luxembourg I Frederic and of Gleiberg Ermentrude) was born on 4 Sep 1000 in Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 21 Nov 1030 in Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married Eleanora de Normandy in 1031. Eleanora was born about 1012; died after 1071 in Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]