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Otto-William (955/62 - 21 September 1026), Count of Macon, Count of Nevers, and Count of Burgundy. Life Born c.958, he was a son of Adalbert, King of Italy, and Gerberga of Mâcon.[1] His mother gave him what would later be the Free County of Burgundy around Dole in 982. Otto also inherited the duchy of Burgundy on the other side of the Saône in 1002 from his stepfather Eudes Henry the Great.[2] The duchy then corresponded to the diocese of Besançon in the Holy Roman Empire. By 990 Otto-William was the Count of Nevers.[2] He was also Count of Mâcon in France.[1] While the son of a king, he did not himself seek a royal wife.[3] In c.?975-80 he married Ermentrude of Roucy whose maternal grandmother, Gerberga of Saxony was a sister of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and by this marriage alliance it caused a web of consanguinity between later kings of France, Germany, Burgundy and the Carolingians.[3] Even his children's spouses, although from great families, came from widespread and scattered parts of France.[3] Burgundy was annexed to the crown of France by King Robert II in 1004. Determined to be sovereign ruler of his own lands, Otto revolted against the Emperor Henry II in 1016. This was after Rudolph III of Burgundy, the last king of that realm, had done homage to Henry at Strasbourg making him his guard and heir. On Otto's death, the Free County fell under the suzerainty of the German emperors. Otto-William died 21 September, 1026[4] Marriage and issue His first wife was Ermentrude, daughter of Renaud of Roucy.[1] They had two sons and three daughters: Guy (c.?975-1006) had been associated as count of Mâcon from 995.[1] He married Aelis. Matilda, married Landri of Nevers.[1] Gerberga, married Guilhem II of Provence.[1] Renaud I, Count of Burgundy (c.?990-1057), he married Adelaide (Judith) of Normandy.[1] Agnes, married firstly William V of Aquitaine, secondly Geoffrey II of Anjou.[1] Otto married the four-times widowed Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou late in life and they had no known children.[5][6] References 1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 59 2.^ Jump up to: a b W. Scott Jessee, Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, Ca. 1025-1098 (USA: The Catholic University of America Press. 2000), p. 15 3.^ Jump up to: a b c Constance Brittain Bouchard, Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), p. 50 4.Jump up ^ David Douglas, 'Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology', The English Historical Review, Vol. 65, No. 256, (Jul., 1950), p. 298 5.Jump up ^ Constance B. Bouchard, 'The Origins of the French Nobility: A Reassessment', The American Historical Review, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Jun., 1981), pp. 515-16. 6.Jump up ^ Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 116 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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