Count Guillaume de Bourgogne I (William I of Burgundy) 
Guillaume was born about 1020. Guillaume's father was Duke Renaud de Bourgogne and his mother was Adelaide of Normandy. His paternal grandparents were Count Otte Guillaume de Bourgogne and Ermentrude de Reims en Rouci; his maternal grandparents were Richard (the Good) of Normandy II and Judith of Brittany. He was an only child. He died in 1087.General Notes
William I said Guillaume de Bourgogne Grand or head Hardie (1020-1087) Count de Bourgogne, Count of Macon and the father of Pope Calixtus II
Painting of the Cathedral of Saint John the Archdiocese of Besançon
Painting of the Cathedral of Saint John the Archdiocese of Besançon
County Burgundy
County Burgundy
Born in 1020, son of Earl Renaud, Duke of Burgundy and Normandy Adelaide (daughter of the Duke of Normandy Richard II).
In 1057 he succeeded on September 3, 1057 to his father who dies. 1st Guillaume de Bourgogne and his eldest sons Renaud II of Burgundy and Stephen I of Burgundy, are counts of Burgundy very powerful, ruling over lands far beyond the limits of the powerful and broad County Burgundy. They are vassals against their will of the German Empire continued testament to the king Rodolphe de Bourgogne III died in 1032 and the war of succession of Burgundy (1032-1034).
He married in the first wedding in 1043 with Gertrude Limburg, which would be after Moréri mother of Ermentrude wife of Thierry Bar; Guy de Bourgogne, the pope under the name of Callixte II, and Stephen Head Hardie.
He married into a second marriage with Étiennette de Longwy-Metz (Adalbert daughter of the Duke of Lorraine). He had the following children:
* Octavien of Quingey (Saint Octavien) (-1128), elder son William, he refused succession in the county to enter orders. He was bishop of Savona.
* II Renaud de Bourgogne († crusade in 1097), a successor to his death. Bride Countess of Régine Oltingen (daughter of the Earl of Conon Oltingen, Region Basel in Switzerland German)
* Stephen Duke of Burgundy († crusade in 1102) he succeeded his father and his brother as Comte de Bourgogne (wife Beatrice of Lorraine, daughter of the Duke Gérard Duke of Lorraine).
* Raymond de Bourgogne († crusade in 1107) in 1090 Urraque wife Duchess of Castile (daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castille), and becomes king of Leon and Galicia
* Guy de Bourgogne administrator of the Archdiocese of Besançon his brother then elected 160 th Pope in 1119 under the name of Calixtus II in Cluny Abbey Macon County. Son of Count de Bourgogne, cousin or relative of the Emperor of Germany and of the kings of France, England and Castile, Gui was known for its whole spirit of his decision, his tenacity, alertness and even brutality his words. It clot investitures of the quarrel, which would be the title of "Father of Peace". Instigator of the Pilgrimage to Saint-Jacques de Compostela
* Sybille wife in 1080 Odo I, the Duke of Burgundy
* Gisèle wife in 1090 (1115)
* Adelaide
* Berthe (? -1097) In 1093 married King Alfonso VI of Castille ([1040-1109])
* Eudes (-1087)
* Hughes III of Burgundy became Archbishop of Besançon, Prince of the German Empire in 1085
* Clemence (1070-1129) married in 1092 Count II of Robert Flanders and the second wedding Godefroid Duke, Duke of Brabant (1060-1140)
* Stephanie or Etiennette, married Prince Lambert (or Francis) Royans.
* Ermentrude wife Count Thierry I of Montbeliard, and Altkirch Ferrette in 1065.
1039 Archbishop of Besançon, Hugh I de Salins, became the man of confidence favorite of the new German emperor, Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (nephew of the preceding). The emperor then grants some autonomy frank and the right to self administer their own government by the County of Burgundy which he was appointed Chancellor and widely recognized for its total and very dedicated and collaboration services for its vassal to his suzerain .
1043 the German emperor Henry III comes to Besancon, is engaged with Agnes of Aquitaine, niece of the Earl Renaud, Duke of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Wilhelm Vd'Aquitaine. For this occasion, the archbishop of Besançon, Hugh I de Salins, obtains sovereign rights over the city of Besancon (legal, political, fiscal and economic ...) He was named prince of the German Empire (rang up before Emperor) and reigns sovereign in the city he and his future successor with the emperor and the Pope Gregory VII only superiors. It is beyond the power of the counts of Burgundy
1076 the German emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Empire opposes the absolute powers of Pope Gregory VII and was excommunicated by the Vatican that the deeply discredited in the deeply Christian Europe, the pope has great power over the crowned heads then. This is the beginning of the power struggle between the German emperor and the Vatican (the investitures quarrel).
1078 Count Guy II Macon is a monk at the Abbey of Cluny and sells its title and land to his cousin William, Duke of Burgundy.
1085 William I of Burgundy itself as the company's most important County Burgundy and puts his hand on the ecclesiastical power after the death of the powerful Archdiocese of Besançon, Hugh I de Salins and Hugues II again by ordering his sons Hughes III Archbishop of Burgundy and Guy de Bourgogne (future Pope under the name of Calixtus II) administrator of the diocese of his brother.
He died in 1087 Besancon at the age of 67 years and was buried in the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne, replaced in the eighteenth century by Saint John's Cathedral, where the graves were transferred Counts of Burgundy.
His sons Renaud II of Burgundy and Stephen I Burgundy him succeed and die crusade to the Holy Land, followed by their brother Raymond de Bourgogne, king of Leon and Galicia, which greatly weaken the power of their families.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0986 d.~ 1057
- b.~ 0926 d.10 May 0967
- b.0958 in Rheims, Marne, France d.~05 May 1004
- b.~ 0850 in Lorraine, France d.19 Jan 0916 in Meersen, in the Palatine
- b.~ 0890 d.08 Apr 0956
- b.~ 0854 in Lorraine, France d.> 0915 in Hainaut, Belgium
- b.~ 0930 in Hainault, Netherlands d.~15 May 0972
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.02 Jul 0936 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.~05 May 0913 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Prussia d.05 May 0984 in Rheims, Marne, France
- b.~ 0878 in Ringelheim, Goslar, Hannover, Germany d.14 May 0968 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.~ 1020 d.1087
- b.~ 0866 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.~ 0931 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0896 in Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in France
- b.~ 0872 in Evreux, Normandy, France d.0938 in France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0880 in Bretagne, Rennes, France
- b.~ 0911 in Bretagne, Rennes, France
- b.~ 0958 in Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0940 d.~ 1031
- b.~ 1002 d.~ 1038
- b.0847 in Bayeux, Normandy, France (Neustria) d.0886 in Bayeux, Normandy, France (Neustria)
- b.~ 0875 in Rennes, France d.0970
- b.~ 0855 in Rennes, France
- b.0950 in Bretagne, Rennes, France d.29 Jun 0992
- b.~ 0925 in France
- b.~ 0982 in Bretagne, Rennes, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0920 d.11 Nov 0958
- b.21 Jul 0958 in Anjou, France d.21 Jul 0987
- b.~ 0920 in Gatinais, France
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992
- b.~ 0911 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.29 Aug 0968
- b.~ 0934 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.> 0982
- b.~ 0914 in Bourgogne, France d.19 Aug 0967
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