3025764398. Marquis William d’Arles
de Provence & 3025764399. Queen Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou.
~945,
William born in d’Arles, s/o §§Comte
Boson d´Arles (b.~925, d.968) & Ctss Constantia of Viennois.
949,
Provence divided into 4 feudal counties. (S) Provence, Facaros, 2004, P285.
9/12/954, King Lothair succeeded King Louis IV as King
of the West Franks.
~947,
Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, d/o §§Comte Foulques II ‘le Bon’ d’Anjou &
Ctss Gerberge ?.
5/963, ‘Boso
comes et uxor sua Constantia … illorum filii … Willelmus comes, Rotbaldus
comes, Pontius juvenis’ signed the charter by which ‘Gencius et uxor mea
Aiburga’ donated property to Monmajour, for the souls of ‘seniore meo Bosone et
uxor sua quondam.’
5/965,
‘Bosoni comitis, filii Rothboldi quondam’ donated property acquired by his father to ‘ecclesiam sancte
Marie et sancti Stephani Avinionensis’ with consent of ‘eius filio Rothboldo et
fratre eius Wilelmo comite.’
967-8, Count
Boson and his son William presided over a tribunal. (S) Development of Southern
French and Catalan Society, Lewis, 1965, P214.
968,
William’s father died.
[–––William & Arsinde–––]
By 970,
William married 1st Arsinde ?.
4/970,
‘Wilelmus comes Provincie et coniunx mea Arsinna’ donated property to
Saint-Victor de Marseille.
970, William
settled Italian count Ugo Blavia near Frejus.
972, The
Saracens captured the Abbot of Cluny and took them as hostages to Fraxinet.
972, William
of Provence, ‘the liberator’, destroyed the Saracen fortress at Fraxinetum. (S)
History of the City of Rome, V3, Gregorovius, 1903, P391.
[–––Adelaide & Etienne–––]
~973,
Adelaide-Blanche married 1st to Etienne de Brioude. [2 sons: Pons and Bertrand,
1 daughter Ermengarde.]
973, William
defeated the Saracens at the battle of Tourtour.
975, Count
William of Provence and Ardoin, Marquess of Turin, drove out Spanish-Saracen
pirates from Garde Freinet on the coast of Provence, the last in southern
France. (S) A Tale of Two Passes, Putnam, 2008, P121.
[Undated,,
bef. death of Etienne]: ‘Stephanus [Etienne] filius quondam Bertrandi et
Emildis’ restored property to Saint-Julien de Brioude which he had usurped
after his father died, signed by ‘domina Adalaiz [Adelaide] … mariti sui
Stephani atque filiorum suorum Poncii et Bertranni [Sons Pons and Bertrand].’
[–––Adelaide & Raymond–––]
~978,
Adelaide married 2nd to Raymond IV, comte de Toulouse.
979, William
became Count of Arles.
4/17/979,
‘Vuilelmus [William] marchius Arelatense Provintie’ donated property ‘in
comitatu Avinionense, in agro Rupiano …" to Saint-Victor, Marseille,
signed by ‘Arsinda comitissa’ [Arsinde.]
Raymond
died: ‘Adelaidem, Ragemundi nuper defuncti ducis Gothorum uxorem.’
[–––Adelaide & Louis V–––]
982, Louis V
of France married Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou [The same day they were crowned
King and Queen at Aquitaine. The marriage arranged by King Lothair, Adelaide
was much older than Louis.] (S) The Carolingians, Riche, 1993, P265.
984, Louis V
divorced Adelaide.
[–––William
& Adelaide–––]
984-85,
Adelaide-Blanche married William I ‘le Liberateur’.
3/2/986, King Lothair succeeded by his son King louis
V.
5/29/987 at Senlis, Hugh Capet succeeded King Louis V as King of the West Franks.
8/28/990,
‘Willelmus comes’ donated property to Cluny, signed by ‘Rodbaldus comes
[William’s brother], Adalaix comitissa, Wilelmus comes et filius eius Wilelmus.’
992,
‘Dominus princeps et marchio istius provinciæ … Willelmus cum coniuge su a…
Adelaix et filio suo … Willelmo’ restored property to the abbey of
Saint-Césaire d´Arles.
Aft.
8/29/993, William II of Provence died; buried at Sarrians, église de Sainte-Croix.
[–––Adelaide–––]
Adelaide
regent for her son.
Aft. 993,
‘Rotbaldus marchio et conjux mea … Eimildis’ donated land to Cluny by signed by
‘Adalax comitissa et filius suus Willelmus.’
10/24/996, King Robert II succeeded his father Hugh as
King of the Franks.
1000, ‘duo germani fratres … Pontius, alter Bertrandus’ [Adelaide’s
sons by Etienne] donated property to Saint-Chaffre for the souls of ‘patris sui
Stephani matrisque nomine Alaicis’.
6/7/1002, Henrich II succeeded as King of Germany.
1002, ‘Rotbaldus comes et coniux mea Ermengarda’ donated land to
Monmajour, signed by ‘Willelmus nepos suus … Adalax comitissa.’
1003, ‘Adalaiz comitissa’ donated property to Saint-Victor de
Marseille, subscribed by ‘Emma comitissa … Wilelmus comes.’
1/1004, Pope John XVIII succeeded Pope John XVII.
1005,
‘Pontius … Massiliensis ecclesie pontifex’ issued a charter with the consent of
‘… domne Adalaizis comitisse, domnique Guillelmi comitis filii eius.’
9/1016, Pope
Benedict VIII refers to ‘domnæ Adeleidi comitissæ cognomento Blanchæ’ in a
document.
5/30/1018,
‘Adalax comitissa mater Villelmi quondam Provintie comitis et Geriberga eque
comitissa … eiusdem principis olim uxor’ donated property to Saint-Victor de
Marseille for the soul of their late son and husband.
1024,
‘Vuilelmus filius Rodbaldi’ donated property to Marseille Saint-Victor, signed
by ‘Adalaiz comitissa.’
5/29/1026,
Adelaide died; buried Montmajour, near Arles. [On the Mediterrean coast East of
Marseille.]
(S)
Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.
Children
of William and Adelaide:
i. William III of Provence, born 986-7 in Arles,
France.
[See above
for William in charters with his parents.]
993, William
succeeded his father as Comte de Provence.
1002,
William married Gerberge de Macon, d/o 3043764992. Comte Otto-William of
Burgundy & 3043764992. Ctss Ermentrude de Roucy.
1013,
‘Wilelmus comes Provincie coniugisque mea Girberga cum filio nostro Wilelmo’
donated property to Saint-Victor de Marseille.
Bef.
5/30/1018, William died.
1019,
‘Geriberga comitissa’ donated property to Saint-Victor de Marseille for the
soul of ‘senioris mei Guilelmi comitis Provincie.’
ii. Constance of Arles (1512882199), born ~988 in
Arles, France.
