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Personal data Constance van Arles 

• She was born about 986.
• She died on June 25, 1034 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Frankrijk.
• A child of Willem I van Provence and Adelais d’Anjou

Household of Constance van Arles

She is married to Robert II van Frankrijk.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Hendrik I van Frankrijk  1008-1060 
2. Adela van Mesen  1014-1079 
3. Robert van Bourgondië  ± 1011-1076 
4. Constance van Frankrijk  ± 1014-???? 
5. Hedwige van Frankrijk  ????-> 1063 

Notes about Constance van Arles

CONSTANCE ([987/89]-Château de Melun 22 or 25 Jul 1032, bur église de l'Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis). The Historia Francorum names "Constantiam, filiam Guillelmi comitis Arelatensis, natam de Blanca sorore Gaufridi comitis Andegavensis" as wife of King Robert[242]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines also names "Constantia filia fuit Blanche comitisse Arelatensis" as wife of "Robertus rex"[243]. The Chronicon Hugonis names "Constantiam" as wife of "Robertus", specifying that she was "cognatam Hugonis Autisiodorensis episcopi comitis Cabilonensis"[244]. This is presumably based on Rodulfus Glaber who states incorrectly that "Constantiam…filiam…prioris Willemi Aquitanie ducis" was wife of King Robert II, specifying that she was "cognatam" of Hugues Comte de Chalon Bishop of Auxerre[245]. The only relationship so far identified between the two is that Constance's maternal uncle, Geoffroy I Comte d'Anjou, was the second husband of the mother of Comte Hugues. Rodulfus Glauber dates her marriage to "about the year 1000"[246]. The king attempted to separate from Constance in 1008 in order to take back his second wife, according to Rodulfus Glaber through the influence of "Hugo dictus Beluacensis"[247], but he restored Constance's royal prerogatives end 1009[248]. She opposed her husband's proposal to crown their second son Henri as associate king in 1026, supporting the candidature of her third son Robert[249]. She organised two revolts against King Robert and another against her son King Henri I after his accession[250]. Rodolfus Glaber records the death of Queen Constance in the same city as her husband [Melun] and in the same month [Jul] in the following year, and her place of burial[251]. The necrology of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés records the death "XI Kal Aug" of "regina Constancia"[252]. The necrology of Argenteuil Priory records the death "VIII Kal Aug" of "Constancia regina"[253]. m ([Sep 1001/25 Aug 1003]) as his third wife, ROBERT II King of France, son of HUGUES Capet King of France & his wife Adelais [de Poitou] (Orléans ([27 Mar] 972-Château de Melun 20 Jul 1031, bur église de l'Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis).

Bronnen:

[242] Hugonis Floriacensis, Liber qui Modernorum Regum Francorum continet Actus 9, MGH SS IX, p. 385, additional manuscript quoted in footnote ***.

[243] Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1013, MGH SS XXIII, p. 780.

[244] Chronicon Hugonis, monachi Virdunensis et divionensis abbatis Flaviniacensis I 996, MGH SS VIII, p. 368.

[245] Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum III.7, p. 107.

[246] Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum III.40, p. 165.

[247] Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum III.7, p. 107.

[248] Kerrebrouck (2000), p. 57.

[249] Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum III.34, p. 157.

[250] Kerrebrouck (2000), pp. 56 and 57.

[251] Rodulfi Glabri, Historiarum III.36, p. 159.

[252] Obituaires de Sens Tome I.1, Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, p. 267.

[253] Obituaires de Sens Tome I.1, Prieuré d'Argenteuil, p. 348.

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