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Personal data Rudolf I van Bourgondië 

• Title: Koning van Opper-BourgondiëSource 1
• He died on October 25, 912.Source 1
• A child of Koenraad II van Auxerre and Waldrada
• This information was last updated on August 12, 2014.

Household of Rudolf I van Bourgondië

He is married to Willa.

They got married in the year 888.Source 2

Child(ren):

1. Rudolf II van Bourgondië  ????-937 

Notes about Rudolf I van Bourgondië

RUDOLF, son of CONRAD II [Welf] Comte d'Auxerre & his wife Waldrada --- (-25 Oct 911). Regino names "Ruodolfus filius Chuonradi, nepos Huggonis abbatis" when recording his occupation of the land between "Iurum et Alpes Penninas…at apud sanctum Mauritium"[112]. He succeeded his father in the latter's territories, with the title "marchio". Emperor Karl III "der Dicke" granted property "in comitatu Waldense" to "vassallo Rudolfi…marchionis" by charter dated 15 Feb 885[113]. He was proclaimed RUDOLF I King of Upper Burgundy at the abbey of Saint-Maurice in Valais in Jan 888 by the nobility of the ancient duchy of Transjurania, his territory consisting of Savoie, Valais, Jura, Franche-Comté and adjacent Swiss territories[114]. He attempted to have himself recognised as king in Lotharingia and was crowned at Toul in Spring 888 by Arnaud Bishop of Toul, but by Jun 888 he was obliged to leave Lorraine and Alsace unconquered[115]. Herimannus records the death in 912 of "Roudolfus rex Burgundiæ"[116]. The Annales Lausannenses record the death "911 VIII Kal Nov" of "Ruodolfus rex"[117].

m ([880/85]) as her first husband, WILLA, daughter of --- (-before 924). She is named "Willa regina" in the grant to Cluny by "Adeleydis comitissa soror Rodulfi" dated 14 Jun 929[118]. Her marriage date is estimated from King Rudolf being recorded as having children in 888[119], although the primary source on which this is based has not been identified and in any case it is not certain that Willa was the mother of those children. Her origin is unknown. Chaume[120] and Hlawitschka[121] suggest that she was Willa, daughter of Boson King [of Provence], the former considering that she was the daughter of King Boson's second marriage while the latter prefers his first wife as her mother. Settipani considers that, if Willa was the daughter of King Boson, it is likely that she was the daughter of his first marriage because of the existence of King Rudolf´s children in 888[122], although as noted above this argument is of little use if Willa was not their mother. Willa's suggested Burgundian origin appears based mainly on the fact that Conrad I King of Burgundy called Charles-Constantin Comte de Vienne "consanguineus noster" in two charters dated 28 Mar 943 and 18 May 943[123], the relationship being explained if Willa's suggested Burgundian origin was correct. However, such a relationship would also be confirmed if the Comte de Vienne was the son of King Louis [de Provence] by Adelais, whose Burgundian origin is suspected but not certain (see above), rather than the Byzantine princess about whose marriage with King Louis there is much uncertainty (see the document PROVENCE). As suggested above, a completely different possibility is that Willa was King Rudolf's second wife (which Chaume assumes), the king's children having been born from an unrecorded earlier marriage. This would be more consistent with Willa's second marriage in 912, when her second husband would have been about 30 years old, while Willa would have been over 50 if her first children had been born in the early 880s. In conclusion, there is too much uncertainty to speculate sensibly on Willa´s origin. Willa married secondly (912) as his first wife, Hugues d'Arles Comte de Vienne, who later succeeded as Ugo I King of Italy. "Hugo comes et marchio" names "patris mei Teutbaldi et matris meæ Berthe…et uxoris quondam meæ Willæ…et præsentis conjugis meæ Hildæ atque fratrum et sororum mearum" in a donation by charter dated 924[124]. Her date of death is fixed by this charter dated 924.

[112] Reginonis Chronicon 888, MGH SS I, p. 598.
[113] D Karl 112, p. 178.
[114] Marie José (1956) La Maison de Savoie, Les Origines, Le Comte Vert, Le Comte Rouge (Paris, Albin Michel), pp. 27-8.
[115] Settipani (1993), p. 380 footnote 118.
[116] Herimanni Augiensis Chronicon 912, MHG SS V, p. 111.
[117] Annales Lausannenses 911, MGH SS XXIV, p. 780.
[118] Cluny, Tome I, 379, p. 358.
[119] Settipani (1993), p. 374.
[120] Chaume, M. (1925) Les origines du duché de Bourgogne (Dijon), Vol 1, p. 382 note 3, cited in Settipani (1993), p. 374.
[121] Hlawitschka, E. (1976) 'Die verwandschaftlichen Verbindungen zwischen dem hochburgundischen und dem niederburgundischen Köningshaus. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Burgunds in der 1. Hälfte des 10. Jahrhunderts', Festschrift für Peter Acht (Munich), pp. 28-57.
[122] Settipani (1993), p. 374.
[123] Cluny, Tome I, 622, p. 579, and I.631, p. 588.
[124] Diplomata Hugonis Comitis Provinciæ et Regis Italiæ I, RHGF IX, p. 689.

Bron: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDY%20KINGS.htm#RudolfIdied912B

Rudolf I van Bourgondië (ca. 855 - 25 oktober 912) was koning van Opper-Bourgondië.

Hij was een zoon van Koenraad II van Auxerre, graaf van Auxerre, uit de familie der Welfen.

Door de erfenis van zijn vader, Koenraad II van Auxerre, was Rudolf graaf van Bourgondië en Auxerre, en lekenabt van Saint-Maurice. Daarmee was hij de machtigste man van Opper-Bourgondië (West-Zwitserland en Franche-Comté). Nadat Karel de Dikke was afgezet, verkoos de adel van Opper-Bourgondië Rudolf in 888 tot koning. Rudolf probeerde in de onduidelijke politieke situatie om opnieuw een onafhankelijk koninkrijk Lotharingen tot stand te brengen, zoals dat tot 869 had bestaan onder Lotharius II. Hij bezette grote delen van de Elzas en Lotharingen, en liet zich in juni 888 tot koning van Lotharingen kronen in Toul. Hij stootte daarbij evenwel op Arnulf van Karinthië en diende in oktober 888 op de rijksdag van Regensburg, Lotharingen op te geven in ruil voor zijn erkenning als koning van Bourgondië.

Rudolf stelde bisschop Theoderic van Besançon aan als zijn kanselier en sloot een bondgenootschap met Guido van Spoleto, een tegenstander van Arnulf in Italië. In 894 wisten ze samen nog te voorkomen dat Arnulf tot keizer zou worden gekroond. Daarop hield Arnulf een expeditie tegen Rudolf maar die liet het niet op een oorlog aankomen maar trok zich met zijn leger terug in de bergen. Ook een poging van Arnulfs zoon Zwentibold (koning van Lotharingen) om Rudolf te onderwerpen was zonder succes. Na de dood van Lodewijk IV het Kind maakte Rudolf weer gebruik van de politieke onzekerheid en veroverde Besançon en Basel.

Rudolf trouwde in 888 met Willa (ca. 865 - voor 924), mogelijk dochter van Bosso van Provence, die na Rudolfs dood hertrouwde met Hugo van Arles. Zij kregen de volgende kinderen:

Rudolf II
Lodewijk (- na 929), graaf van de Thurgau (een gebied dat aanmerkelijk groter was dan het huidige kanton), trouwde vermoedelijk met een dochter van Edward I maar het is niet zeker of dit Eadgifu of Aelgifu was.
mogelijk Willa (- na 936), die huwde met Boso III van Arles maar door hem in 936 werd verstoten
Waldrada, getrouwd met Bonifatius, markgraaf van Bologna en hertog van Spoleto

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