GuillaumeIer le Grand DE BOURGOGNE Comte Palatin

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GUILLAUME de Bourgogne, son of RENAUD I Comte de Bourgogne & his [first] wife Adelais de Normandie ([1024]-12 Nov 1087, bur Besançon). Guillaume of Jumièges names "Adeliz" as the first daughter of "dux Richardus" and his wife "Goiffredum Britannorum comitem...sororem...Iudith", adding that she married "Rainaldo Burgundionum comiti" by whom she had "Willelmum et Widonem" (the marriage is recorded in a later passage)[33]. His parentage is also given by Orderic Vitalis[34]. He succeeded his father in 1057 as GUILLAUME I "le Grand" Comte de Bourgogne. Orderic Vitalis records that for about ten years he fought his brother Guy ex-Comte de Brionne who attempted to dispossess Guillaume[35]. He was one of the princes called upon by Pope Gregory VII in 1074 to help defend St Peter's[36]. He succeeded in 1078 as Comte de Mâcon, when his cousin Guy [II] Comte de Mâcon entered holy orders. The necrology of Besançon Cathedral records the death "II Id Nov" of "Willelmus comes Burgundionum pater Hugonis Archiepiscopi"[37].

m ([1049/57]) ETIENNETTE, daughter of --- (-after 19 Oct 1088). Szabolcs de Vajay[38] demonstrates that his earlier hypothesis concerning a Lotharingian origin of Etiennette is incorrect[39]. According to Père Anselme, she was the daughter of Berenguer Ramón I "el Curvo" Conde de Barcelona[40], but there appears to be no contemporary documentation on which this is based. Settipani suggests that Etiennette may have been the daughter of Bernard [II] Comte de Bigorre & his first wife Clémence, based solely on onomastics[41], but the possible motivation for a marriage between these two families is not obvious. Some secondary sources suggest that she was "Etiennette de Vienne"[42]. However, no documentary evidence has been found which indicates a connection between her descendants and the county of Vienne before her grandson Guillaume (who died 1155, see below), which suggests that any rights to the county were acquired by the family well after Etiennette died. Szabolcs de Vajay attributes the error connecting Etiennette with Vienne to her epitaph, which names "Allobrogum comitissa...Stephania"[43], indicating that, while the Allobroges had been a Gallic tribe living around Vienne, this archaic term was used elsewhere simply to describe the county of Burgundy[44].

Guillaume I & his wife had [thirteen] children

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GuillaumeIer married Etiennette DE XXX in 1049-1057.

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