Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NameWilliam I “Le Grand”
Birthabt 1020
Death12 Nov 1087, Besançon, Prince-Archbishopric of Besançon, Holy Roman Empire
OccupationComte De Bourgogne
FatherReginald I (~986-)
MotherAdeliza de Normandie (~1002-~1038)
Notes for William I “Le Grand”


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I,_Count_of_Burgundy

William I , called the Great was Count of Burgundy and Mâcon from 1057 to 1087. He was a son of Renaud I and Adelaide, daughter of Richard II of Normandy. William was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callistus II.
In 1057, he succeeded his father and reigned over a territory larger than that of the Franche-Comté itself. In 1087, he died in Besançon and was buried there in the cathedral of St John.
William married a woman named Stephanie.[1]
They had many children:
Renaud II, William's successor, died on First Crusade
Stephen I, successor to Renaud II, Stephen died on the Crusade of 1101
Raymond, married Urraca, the reigning queen of Castile
Guy of Vienne, elected pope, in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny. as Calixtus II
▪ Sybilla , married Eudes I of Burgundy
▪ Gisela, married Humbert II of Savoy and then Renier I of Montferrat
▪ Adelaide
▪ Eudes
Hugh III, Archbishop of Besançon
▪ Clementia married Robert II, Count of Flanders and was Regent, during his absence
▪ Stephanie married Lambert, Prince de Royans
▪ Ermentrude, married Thierry I of Montbéliard
▪ Bertha wife of Alphonso VI of Castile
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