Renaud, Duke of Burgundy (986-1057) was 2nd Earl of Burgundy (Count Palatine of Burgundy) of the House of Ivrea in the eleventh century.
986: birth. Son of Count Otte Guillaume de Bourgogne and Adelaide Ermentrude Reims and Roucy (daughter of Renaud de Roucy, Comte de Reims and lord of Roucy and Albérade of Hainault, Gislebertus daughter of the Duke of Lorraine and Gerberga of Saxony). Adelaide de Reims was the heir Macon County by her first marriage with Aubry II Macon († 982).
995: at the age of 20, his father combines the elder brother of Renaud de Bourgogne Guy Duke of Macon, who was born in 975, to power in the county of Burgundy and Macon County, for his succession.
1002: 27 years old, Guy Macon becomes Duke of Earl of Macon.
1004: Guy Duke of Macon died at the age of 29. His son Otto II Macon succeeds him under Comte de Mâcon. Otte-Guillaume sharing her land: her son receives Renaud Counties Amous, Varais and Portois; Otton, his grandson receives the Mâconnais and Escuens. Otte-Guillaume retains its rights in the counties of Burgundy Frankish (Beaumont, Fouvent and Oscheret). The counts of Burgundy keep for a long time many suzerainetés lands or on county located in the Duchy of Burgundy.
1016: Renaud de Normandie wife Adelaide (1002-1038), daughter of the Duke of Normandy Richard II and Judith de Bretagne.
1026: Renaud Duke of Burgundy succeeds, October 21, 1026, at age 40, under Count de Bourgogne, his father died, and his brother Guy died.
The exploitation of Salt (Salt Mine Salins and Lons-Montmorot) and the development of trade routes through the Jura ensure the prosperity of the region.
1027: Renaud Duke of Burgundy is at war with the bishop of Auxerre-Count, Hugues de Chalon. It is the prisoner in Auxerre. Renaud I was released by the troops sent by his stepfather and conducted by the future Richard III, Duke of Normandy.
1032: Rodolphe III de Bourgogne (Burgundy last king) died without offspring, September 6, 1032. He appointed his cousin, the German emperor Conrad II the Salic as the heir. His nephew Eudes de Blois II, the son of his older sister Berthe de Bourgogne, aroused against Conrad the Salic, the revolt of the feudal and prelates of the kingdom of Burgundy. The war of succession of Burgundy (1032-1034) initiated and is supported by Renaud, Duke of Burgundy, Count II Gérold Geneva, the archbishop of Vienna, the bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, as the Archbishop of Lyon, Burchard II, bastard son of Conrad and the Pacific half-brother of Rodolphe III of Burgundy.
Faced with them, Conrad supported by the presence of the Salic Héribert, archbishop of Milan, the Marquis Boniface III of Tuscany, Ermengarde, widow of Rudolph III, and Humbert de Maurienne, a former adviser and vassal of Rodolphe III - Today Today, more known as the White Hands Humbert.
Eudes de Blois II is crowned king of Burgundy in Lausanne, by his supporters, but in January 1033, the emperor is also crowned in Basel.
The revolt fails and the kingdom of Burgundy should remain in the empire. To escape the imperial armies, Renaud withdrew from Burgundy in Dijon, in Burgundy ducal where he maintained a broad base of support.
1034: German emperor Conrad II the Salic takes possession of the kingdom of Burgundy (actually the county of Burgundy) and receives 1 August, a tribute of its new vassals in Geneva.
Conrad II vassalise County Burgundy over many generations, to the detriment of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Kingdom of France.
1037: Renaud, Duke of Burgundy and Eudes II Blois continue the fight against imperial troops led by Gothelon Duke of Lorraine and allies, for the occasion, with those of King Henry I of France. On Nov. 15, Battle of Hanol, Bar-le-Duc and Verdun. Death of Eudes II Blois.
The emperor Conrad II decides to lift the sentences against his adversaries. Renaud, Duke of Burgundy, head of the coalition, receives, in Dijon, an embassy of the emperor, who announced the desires reconciliation thereof. Renaud, Duke of Burgundy became Count Palatine (Pfalzgraf) de Bourgogne, as given in the imperial administration Germanic, those who are responsible for administering the lands and render justice in the name of the emperor. His successors will continue to carry this title.
1038: Conrad II transmits the kingdom of Burgundy at his nephew Henry III. He crowned king of Burgundy in Solothurn. Major, whose Earl Renaud and the archbishop of Besançon Hugh I de Salins, were present at the ceremony and should pay tribute to their new king.
1039: Archbishop of Besançon, Hugh I de Salins, became the man of confidence by Henri III. The emperor then grants some autonomy frank and the right to self-administer their own government by the County of Burgundy. The Archbishop of Besançon was appointed Chancellor and widely recognized for its total and very dedicated collaboration.
1043: Henry III comes to Besancon, is engaged with Agnes of Aquitaine, niece of Renaud, Duke of Burgundy, and daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, William V of Poitiers. On 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 appointed prince of the German Empire (maximum rank before Emperor) and reigns sovereign over the city, with the emperor and the Pope Gregory VII only superiors. He escapes and the power of the counts of Burgundy.
1044: Henry III continues to favour those who supported his father. It gives the town of Montbeliard to Count Louis de Mousson. Renaud, Duke of Burgundy again revolted against the emperor. He besieged the castle of Montbeliard, but Count Louis defeated his troops and thus maintains the independence of Montbeliard vis-à-vis the county of Burgundy. County Montbéliard taking shape and will live its own history.
1057: In September, the count Renaud lost at the age of 71. His son, William (1057-1087), succeeded him. He was already involved in the decisions comtales for several years, and ensured authority over county Burgundy in the absence of his father. Renaud, Duke of Burgundy is buried in the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne de Besançon, replaced in the eighteenth century by St. John's Cathedral, where the graves were transferred Earl de Bourgogne (Chapel of the Sacred Heart).
From his marriage to Alice Normandy, Renaud Duke of Burgundy had four sons and two daughters:
* William I of Burgundy known as the Great or head Hardie (1020-1087) who succeeded him as Count de Bourgogne.
* Gui Gui de Brionne or Burgundy (v 1025-1069), grew up in the courtyard of Normandy, who wanted to succeed the Duchy of Normandy against his cousin Guillaume de Normandie (future William the Conqueror). He had left his Brionne counties and Vernon in Normandy, after being at the head of the coalition of barons Normandy, which was defeated at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes in 1047. Gui de Brionne found refuge with his uncle Geoffrey II Martel, Count of Anjou. Upon the death of Renaud, Duke of Burgundy, he tried to delight for a decade County Burgundy to his brother William.
* Aubree Burgundy (1032-1122) who married in 1051 Guiscard Robert (1020-1085) and had children Emma de Hauteville (herself a mother of Tancred of Hauteville, hero of the 1st Crusade and model of chivalry), and the illustrates Bohemond of Taranto, prince of Antioch.
* Sybille de Bourgogne (1035 - v 1074), who married in 1056 the Duke Henri de Bourgogne, grandson of the king of France Robert Pius II.
* Hugues de Bourgogne, said Superalios (cited in 1037 - v 1086), Viscount of Lons-le-Saunier, sire of Montmorot, Navilly and Scey, married to Aldeberge of Scey. They had to wire Thibert I Montmorot, Viscount of Lons-le-Saunier (house Montmorot, alias Montmoret).
* Fulk de Bourgogne, alias Fulk de Joux Grandson (cited in 1060-1114) (according to the columnist Herman Laon), married to Alix de Roucy (v 1055 -? House) (Grandson).
Renaud, Duke of Burgundy also raised her yard Robert de Nevers (1035-1098), said the Bourguignon, the son of Renaud Duke of Nevers (1000-1040), nephew of Renaud, Duke of Burgundy. Robert de Nevers is at the root of the house of Craon-Nevers. Her grandson Robert of Craon, told The Bourguignon also succeeded Hugues de Payns as the second Master of the Knights Templar.
Duke Renaud de Bourgogne 
- b.0958 in Rheims, Marne, France d.~05 May 1004
