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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

Bertha of Burgundy, detail from a genealogical chart of the Ottonian dynasty in a manuscript of the 2nd half of 12th century.

Laurens excomunication 1875 orsay

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


Offspring of Odo de Blois (950-996) and Bertha de Bourgogne
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


Offspring of Conrad III de Bourgogne (c925-993) and Mathilde (943-c981)
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)


Offspring of Conrad III de Bourgogne (c925-993) and Adelaide de Bellay (?-?)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Gisela de Bourgogne (c950-c1006) 950 21 July 1006 Heinrich II von Bayern (951-995)


Offspring of Conrad III de Bourgogne (c925-993) and Aldiud
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

  1. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Riché2
  2. ^ a b Stefan Weinfurter, The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition, transl. Barbara M. Bowlus, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 46.
  3. ^ Burgundy and Provence 879-1032, Constance Brittain Bourchard, The New Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. III, ed. Timothy Reuter, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 342.
  4. ^ Bourchard, Constance (1981). "Consanguinity and Noble Marriages in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries". Speculum 56: 276–77. ISSN 0038-7134. 
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Preceded by
Rozela di Ivrea (955-c1003)
Queen consort of the Franks
996–1000
Succeeded by
Constance of Arles


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