ARLES

Versailles, France - A. Bourdier   (1896-1912)

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Robert II of FRANCE - The Pious of CAPET - King of France
born - France - Orleans 27 MAR 972
educated - "the episcopal school of Reims under Gerbert of Aurillac, later
Pope Sylvester II"
coronation - crowned - Orlans December 30th
died - France - Melun 20 JUL 1031
burial - Saint Denis Basilica
married -
Constance of ARLES
born - France - Tolouse 973
died - France - Melun - 25 JUL 1034
burial - France - Saint-Denis Basilica, St Denis Isle
Children
1. Advisa of AUXERRE
2. Hugh of FRANCE
3. Henri I of FRANCE
4. Adelaide Havoise CAPET
5. Robert I CAPET
6. Eudo (Eudes) of FRANCE
7. Constance of FRANCE

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William I " the Liberator" of PROVENCE
Guilhem I of PROVENCE
Count of Provence - Count of Arles
born - France - Arles, Provance 950
died - After 29 AUG 993
married 984
Adelaide of ANJOU - Queen of Aquitaine
born - 947
died - 1012
Children
1. Constance of ARLES

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Boso II of ARLES - Count of Arles
born - France - Provance
died - 965
married
Constance of ARLES
born - France - Provance 925
died -
Children
1. Rotbold II of PROVENCE
2. William I " the Liberator" of PROVENCE

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Rotbold II of ARLES - Count of Arle
born -
died -
married
Ermengarde AQUITAINE
born -
died -
Children
1. Boso II of ARLES

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Rotbold I of ARLES
born -
died -
married
Unknown
born -
died -
Children
1. Rotbold II of ARLES

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"Cluny or Clugny is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire
department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern
France. It is 20 km north west of Mâcon.
The town grew up around the Benedictine Cluny Abbey,
founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in A.D. 910"

WIKIPEDIA

 

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William I " the Liberator" of PROVENCE
Adelaide of ANJOU - Queen of Aquitaine
"Adelaide, Adelais, Adalais, Azalais, or Blanche (circa 947 – 1012) was the daughter of Fulk
II of Anjou and Gerberga of Maine. She was therefore the sister of Geoffrey Greymantle. She
was married five times to some of France's most important noblemen.
Her first marriage, probably before 960, was to Stephen, Viscount of Gévaudan. Her
second marriage was to Raymond, Count of Toulouse and Duke of Gothia, in 975. He died
in 978. In 980, she married Louis, the young son of Lothair of France, and the two were
jointly crowned Monarchs of Aquitaine on the same day at Brioude. The large difference in
age between the spouses was cause for a quick divorce in 982. She fled then to Arles,
where she contracted, against papal advice, a marriage with William I of Provence in 984.
She gave him a daughter, Constance of Arles, who later married Robert II of France. Her
final marriage was to Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy. (Wikipedia)"

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William I " the Liberator" of PROVENCE
Adelaide of ANJOU - Queen of Aquitaine
"William I (c.950 – 993, after 29 August), called the Liberator, was Count of Provence from
968 to his abdication. In 975 or 979, he took the title of marchio or margrave. He is often
considered the founder of the county of Provence. He and his elder brother Rotbold II, sons
of Boso II of Arles, both carried the title of comes or count concurrently, but it is unknown if
they were joint-counts of the whole of Provence or if the region was divided. His brother
never bore any other title than count so long as William lived, so the latter seems to have
attained a certain supremacy.
In 980, he was installed as Count of Arles. His sobriquet comes from his victories against
the Saracens by which he liberated Provence from their threat, which had been constant
since the establishment of a base at Fraxinet. At the Battle of Tourtour in 973, with the
assistance of the counts of the High Alps and the viscounts of Marseilles and Fos, he
definitively routed the Saracens, chasing them forever from Provence. He reorganised the
region east of the Rhône, which he conquered from the Saracens and which had been
given him as a gift from King Conrad of Burgundy. Also by royal consent, he and his
descendants controlled the fisc in Provence. With the Isarn, Bishop of Grenoble, he
repopulated the Dauphiny and settled an Italian count named Ugo Blavia near Fréjus in
970 in order to bring that land back to cultivation. For all this, he figures prominently in
Ralph Glaber's chronicle with the title of dux and he appears in a charter of 992 as pater
patriae.
His first marriage was to Arsenda, daughter of Arnold of Comminges. Their son was
William II of Provence. He married secondly Adelaide of Anjou in 984, against papal advice.
Their daughter Constance married Robert II of France. He donated land to Cluny and
retired to become a monk, dying at Avignon, where he was buried in the church of Saint-
Croix at Sarrians. He was succeeded as margrave by his brother. His great principality
began to diminish soon after his death as the castles of his vassals, which he had kept
carefully under ducal control, soon became allods of their possessors. (Wikipedia)"

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