ID: I2334
Name: Rudolph I
Suffix: King of Transjurane Burgundy
Reference Number: 2334
Sex: M
Birth: 0859 in Burgundy
Death: 25 OCT 0912
_UID: 2AB5EAE4FF5A6F4FB08F5D30DD776E7CCE42
Note: Weis' "Ancestral Roots . . . 8th Ed." (145:18), identifies Rudolph I, King of Upper Burgundy as the father of Willa, wife of Boso, Count of Arles, Margrave of Tuscany. . Weis does not identify Rudolph's wife or parents.
Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (175:36), (366:38), citing ES II:186
In 888 Rudolph persuaded the Emporer, ARNULF (RIN 1443), to make his lands into a separate kingdom which came to be known as "Transjuran Burgundy", which consisted of Savoy, Franche Compte, and Switzerland.
Rudolph I of Burgundy (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia): . Rudolph I, born 859, died October 25, 912, King of (Upper or Transjurane) Burgundy from his election in 888 until his death. . Rudolph belonged to the elder Welf family and was the son of Conrad, Count of Auxerre, from whom he inherited the lay abbacy of St Maurice en Valais, making him the most powerful magnate in Upper Burgundy - present-day western Switzerland and the Franche Comté. . After the deposition and death of Charles the Fat, the nobles and leading clergy of Upper Burgundy met at St Maurice and elected Rudolph as king. Apparently on the basis of this election, Rudolph claimed the whole of Lotharingia, taking much of modern Lorraine and Alsace - but his claim was contested by Arnulf of Carinthia, the new king of East Francia or Germany, who rapidly forced Rudolph to abandon Lotharingia in return for recognition as king of Burgundy. However, hostilities between Rudolph and Arnulf seem to have continued intermittently until 894. . Rudolph's relationships with his other neighbours were friendlier. His sister Adelaide married Richard the Justiciar, duke of Burgundy (the present day Burgundy, part of west Francia), and his daughters, another Adelaide, married Louis the Blind of Provence (Lower Burgundy), and Willa, married Boso of Tuscany. . Rudolph was succeeded as king of Burgundy by his son, Rudolph II. Rudolf I's widow, queen Guilla, married in 912 Hugh of Arles. . This Rudolph is frequently confused with his nephew Rudolph of France, who was the second duke of Burgundy and ninth king of France. . References: . Pierre Riché, The Carolingians: a family who forged Europe (trans. Michael Idomir Allen, 1993, University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1342-4) . Timothy Reuter, Germany in the early Middle Ages (1991, Longman. ISBN 0-582-49034-0 )
Change Date: 20 APR 2009
Father: Conrad II b: 0825
Mother: Waldrada
Marriage 1
Guilla Willa b: ABT 0852
Children
Rudolph II b: ABT 0902 in Burgundy Willa b: ABT 0906 Adelheid* Waldrada | |