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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Marquis William d’Arles de Provence & Queen Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou

3025764398. Marquis William d’Arles de Provence & 3025764399. Queen Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou.

~945, William born in d’Arles, s/o §§Comte Boson d´Arles (b.~925, d.968) & Ctss Constantia of Viennois.

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.

~947, Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, d/o §§Comte Foulques II ‘le Bon’ d’Anjou & Ctss Gerberge ?.

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–––]

By 970, 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.

[–––Adelaide & Etienne–––]

~973, Adelaide-Blanche married 1st to Etienne de Brioude. [2 sons: Pons and Bertrand, 1 daughter Ermengarde.]

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–––]

~978, 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 V–––]

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–––]

984-85, 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. [On the Mediterrean coast East of Marseille.]

(S) Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.

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 3043764992. Comte Otto-William of Burgundy & 3043764992. Ctss Ermentrude de Roucy.

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.’

ii. Constance of Arles (1512882199), born ~988 in Arles, France.


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