3025764398. William, comte d’Arles and Marquis de Provence & 3025764399. Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou.
William born in d’Arles, s/o §Boson, comte d´Arles & Constantia of Viennois.
Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, d/o §Foulques I ‘le Roux’ Comte d'Anjou & Roscille de Loches.
949, Provence divided into 4 feudal counties. (S) Provence,
Facaros, 2004, P285.
9/12/954, King Lothair
succeeded King Louis IV as King of the West Franks.
[–––Adelaide & Etienne–––]
~960, Adelaide married 1st to Etienne de Brioude. [2 sons: Pons
and Bertrand 1 daughter Ermengarde.]
5/963, ‘Boso comes et uxor sua Constantia … illorum filii …
Willelmus comes, Rotbaldus comes, Pontius juvenis’ signed the charter by which
‘Gencius et uxor mea Aiburga’ donated property to Monmajour, for the souls of ‘seniore
meo Bosone et uxor sua quondam.’
5/965, ‘Bosoni comitis, filii Rothboldi quondam’ donated
property acquired by his father to
‘ecclesiam sancte Marie et sancti Stephani Avinionensis’ with consent of ‘eius
filio Rothboldo et fratre eius Wilelmo comite.’
967-8, Count Boson and his son William presided over a
tribunal. (S) Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, Lewis, 1965,
P214.
968, William’s father died.
[–––William & Arsinde–––]
William married 1st Arsinde ?.
4/970, ‘Wilelmus comes Provincie et coniunx mea Arsinna’ donated
property to Saint-Victor de Marseille.
970, William settled Italian count Ugo Blavia near Frejus.
972, The Saracens captured the Abbot of Cluny and took them as hostages
to Fraxinet.
972, William of Provence, ‘the liberator’, destroyed the Saracen
fortress at Fraxinetum. (S) History of the City of Rome, V3, Gregorovius, 1903,
P391.
973, William defeated the Saracens at the battle of Tourtour.
975, Count William of Provence and Ardoin, Marquess of Turin, drove
out Spanish-Saracen pirates from Garde Freinet on the coast of Provence, the
last in southern France. (S) A Tale of Two Passes, Putnam, 2008, P121.
[Undated,, bef. death of Etienne]: ‘Stephanus [Etienne] filius
quondam Bertrandi et Emildis’ restored property to Saint-Julien de Brioude
which he had usurped after his father died, signed by ‘domina Adalaiz
[Adelaide] … mariti sui Stephani atque filiorum suorum Poncii et Bertranni
[Sons Pons and Bertrand].’
[–––Adelaide & Raymond–––]
~976, Adelaide married 2nd to Raymond IV, comte de Toulouse.
979, William became Count of Arles.
4/17/979, ‘Vuilelmus [William] marchius Arelatense Provintie’
donated property ‘in comitatu Avinionense, in agro Rupiano …" to
Saint-Victor, Marseille, signed by ‘Arsinda comitissa’ [Arsinde.]
Raymond died: ‘Adelaidem, Ragemundi nuper defuncti ducis
Gothorum uxorem.’
[–––Adelaide & Louis–––]
982, Louis V of France married Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou [The
same day they were crowned King and Queen at Aquitaine. The marriage arranged
by King Lothair, Adelaide was much older than Louis.] (S) The Carolingians,
Riche, 1993, P265.
984, Louis V divorced Adelaide.
[–––William & Adelaide–––]
By 986, Adelaide-Blanche married William I ‘le Liberateur’.
3/2/986, King Lothair
succeeded by his son King louis V.
5/29/987 at Senlis, Hugh
Capet succeeded King Louis V as King of the West Franks.
8/28/990, ‘Willelmus comes’ donated property to Cluny, signed
by ‘Rodbaldus comes [William’s brother], Adalaix comitissa, Wilelmus comes et
filius eius Wilelmus.’
992, ‘Dominus princeps et marchio istius provinciæ … Willelmus
cum coniuge su a… Adelaix et filio suo … Willelmo’ restored property to the
abbey of Saint-Césaire d´Arles.
Aft. 8/29/993, William II of Provence died; buried at Sarrians,
église de Sainte-Croix.
[–––Adelaide–––]
Adelaide regent for her son.
Aft. 993, ‘Rotbaldus marchio et conjux mea … Eimildis’ donated land
to Cluny by signed by ‘Adalax comitissa et filius suus Willelmus.’
10/24/996, King Robert II
succeeded his father Hugh as King of
the Franks.
1000, ‘duo germani fratres … Pontius, alter Bertrandus’
[Adelaide’s sons by Etienne] donated property to Saint-Chaffre for the souls of
‘patris sui Stephani matrisque nomine Alaicis’.
6/7/1002, Henrich II succeeded
as King of Germany.
1002, ‘Rotbaldus comes et coniux mea Ermengarda’ donated land
to Monmajour, signed by ‘Willelmus nepos suus … Adalax comitissa.’
1003, ‘Adalaiz comitissa’ donated property to Saint-Victor de
Marseille, subscribed by ‘Emma comitissa … Wilelmus comes.’
1/1004, Pope John XVIII
succeeded Pope John XVII.
1005, ‘Pontius … Massiliensis ecclesie pontifex’ issued a
charter with the consent of ‘… domne Adalaizis comitisse, domnique Guillelmi
comitis filii eius.’
9/1016, Pope Benedict VIII refers to ‘domnæ Adeleidi comitissæ
cognomento Blanchæ’ in a document.
5/30/1018, ‘Adalax comitissa mater Villelmi quondam Provintie
comitis et Geriberga eque comitissa … eiusdem principis olim uxor’ donated
property to Saint-Victor de Marseille for the soul of their late son and
husband.
1024, ‘Vuilelmus filius Rodbaldi’ donated property to Marseille
Saint-Victor, signed by ‘Adalaiz comitissa.’
5/29/1026, Adelaide died; buried Montmajour, near Arles.
(S) Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
Family notes:
·
Boson, s/o §Rotbald
I.
·
Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, sister of Geoffrey
d’Anjou, and aunt of Fulk III Nerra of Anjou.
Children of William
and Adelaide:
i. William III of Provence, born 986-7 in Arles, France.
[See above for William in charters with his parents.]
993, William succeeded his father as Comte de Provence.
1002, William married Gerberge de Macon, d/o Otto-William,
Count of Burgundy & Ermentrude de Roucy [sister of Rainald I of Burgundy.]
1013, ‘Wilelmus comes Provincie coniugisque mea Girberga cum filio
nostro Wilelmo’ donated property to Saint-Victor de Marseille.
Bef. 5/30/1018, William died.
1019, ‘Geriberga comitissa’ donated property to Saint-Victor de
Marseille for the soul of ‘senioris mei Guilelmi comitis Provincie.’
