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- Queen of the Franks
- Countess of Blois
Bertha Welf de Bourgogne was born 967 to Conrad III de Bourgogne (c925-993) and Mathilde (943-c981) and died 1016 of unspecified causes. She married Odo de Blois (950-996) 983 JL . She married Robert II of France (972-1031) 996 JL .
Bertha of Burgundy, detail from a genealogical chart of the Ottonian dynasty in a manuscript of the 2nd half of 12th century.
The Excommunication of Robert the Pious, oil on canvas by Jean-Paul Laurens, 1875, currently at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. In reality, the excommunication of the king was never promulgated by the Pope.[1]
Bertha of Burgundy (964 – 16 January 1010) was Queen of the Franks as the second wife of King Robert II.
Biography =
Bertha was the daughter of King Conrad of Burgundy[2] and his wife Matilda, daughter of King Louis IV of France and Gerberga of Saxony. She was named for her father's mother, Bertha of Swabia.
1st Marriage: Odo I, Count of Blois
She first married Count Odo I of Blois in about 983.[3] They had several children, including Theobald II and Odo II.[2]
2nd Marriage: Robert II, Kingof France
After the death of her husband in 996, Bertha's second cousin Robert, the eldest son of King Hugh Capet of France, wished to marry her. He had recently repudiated his first wife, Susanna, who was many years his senior. The union was opposed by King Hugh, who feared that political problems could be caused by religious authorities due to their consanguinity. The marriage nevertheless went ahead around the time of Hugh's death in October 996, which left Robert as sole king. Pope Gregory V and his successor Pope Sylvester II pronounced anathemas against Robert for his "incestuous" marriage and the pair were forced to separate, but Robert several times attempted to rejoin her.[4]
3rd Marriage: Arduin of Ivrea
According to Italian Wikipedia, Bertha married a third time to Arduin of Ivrea (955-1015), and had seven more children.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Robert de Blois (?-c988) | 988 | ||
| Theobald II de Blois (c985-1004) | 985 | 11 July 1004 | |
| Odo II de Blois (c983-1037) | 983 | 15 November 1037 Bar | Matilda of Normandy (?-1006) Irmengarde d'Auvergne (c995-1040) |
| Thierry de Blois (?-996) | 996 | ||
| Agnes de Blois (c987-c1034) | 987 | 1034 | Geoffroy II de Thouars (990-1055) |
| Roger de Blois (?-?) | 24 June 1024 | ||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Bertha de Bourgogne (967-1016) | 967 | 1016 | Odo de Blois (950-996) Robert II, King of France (972-1031) |
| Matilda de Bourgogne (969-c1016) | 969 | 1016 | |
| Rodolphe III de Bourgogne (971-1032) | 971 | 6 September 1032 | Ermengarde |
| Gerberga de Bourgogne (965-1019) | 965 | 7 July 1019 | Hermann von Werl (?-985) Hermann II von Schwaben (?-1003) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Gisela de Bourgogne (c950-c1006) | 950 | 21 July 1006 | Heinrich II von Bayern (951-995) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Burchard de Bourgogne (978-1033) | 978 | 22 June 1033 | |
See Also
- Charlemagne Family Ancestry
- Capetian dynasty
- wikipedia:en:Bertha of Burgundy
- Bertha of Burgundy at thePeerage
- Capetian Kings - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
- Berthe de Bourgogne, reine consort de France - Geni.com
- Bertha of Burgundy at Find A Grave
- Bouchard, Constance B. (1981). "Consanguinity and Noble Marriages in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries". Speculum 56.2 (April) (2): 268–287. DOI:10.2307/2846935. PMID 11610836.
- Bouchard, Constance B. (1987). Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980–1188. Cornell University Press.
- Nicholas, David (1992). Medieval Flanders. Longman.
- Palmer, James (2014). The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press.
- Theis, Laurent (1990). "Nouvelle histoire de la France médiévale" (in fr). L'Héritage des Charles: De la mort de Charlemagne aux environs de l'an mil – Points. Histoire 2.
- Theis, Laurent (1999) (in fr). Robert le Pieux. Paris: Perrin. ISBN 978-2-262-01375-2.
- Vasiliev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1951). "Hugh Capet of France and Byzantium". Dumbarton Oaks Papers 6: 227–251. DOI:10.2307/1291087.
- Werner, Karl Ferdinand (1990) (in fr). Dieu, les rois et l'Histoires. Paris: Seuil.
- Pfister, Charles (1885) (in fr). Etudes sur le règne de Robert le Pieux. Paris. pp. 41–69.
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedRiché2 - ^ a b Stefan Weinfurter, The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition, transl. Barbara M. Bowlus, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 46.
- ^ Burgundy and Provence 879-1032, Constance Brittain Bourchard, The New Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. III, ed. Timothy Reuter, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 342.
- ^ Bourchard, Constance (1981). "Consanguinity and Noble Marriages in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries". Speculum 56: 276–77. ISSN 0038-7134.
French royalty
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| Preceded by Rozela di Ivrea (955-c1003) |
Queen consort of the Franks 996–1000 |
Succeeded by Constance of Arles |