William I, Count of Burgundy

William I (1020 – 12 November 1087), called the Great (le Grand or Tête Hardie, "the Stubborn"), was Count of Burgundy from 1057 to 1087 and Mâcon from 1078 to 1087. He was a son of Reginald I, Count of Burgundy and Alice of Normandy, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy.^[1] William was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callixtus II.

William I
Born	1020
Died	(1087-11-12)12 November 1087 Besançon
Buried	Besançon Cathedral
Noble family	Ivrea
Spouse(s)	Stephanie [fr] (a.k.a. Etiennette)
Issue	Renaud II, Count of Burgundy Stephen I, Count of Burgundy Raymond of Burgundy Sybilla of Burgundy Gisela of Burgundy Clementia of Burgundy Guy of Vienne
Father	Renaud I, Count of Burgundy
Mother	Alice of Normandy

In 1057, William succeeded his father and reigned over a territory larger than that of the Franche-Comté itself. In 1087, he died in Besançon, Prince-Archbishopric of Besançon, Holy Roman Empire—an independent city within the County of Burgundy. He was buried in Besançon's Cathedral of St John.

William married a woman named Stephanie [fr] (a.k.a. Etiennette).^[2]

Children of Stephanie (order uncertain):

• Renaud II, William's successor; died on First Crusade^[3]
• Stephen I, successor to Renaud II;^[4] died on the Crusade of 1101^[3]
• Raymond of Burgundy, who married Urraca of León and Castile and thus was given the government of Galicia (Spain)^[4]
• Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy^[5]
• Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat^[5]
• Clementia married Robert II, Count of Flanders^[6] and was regent during his absence. She married, secondly, Godfrey I, Count of Leuven^[5]
• Guy of Vienne, elected pope, in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny, as Callixtus II^[3]
• William
• Eudes
• Hugh III [fr], Archbishop of Besançon^[3]
• Stephanie married Lambert, lord of Peyrins (brother of Adhemar of Le Puy)
• Ermentrude, married (in 1065) Theodoric I, Count of Montbéliard^[5]

References

1. Keats-Rohan 1993, p. 43.
2. She was identified as the daughter of Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine in an article by Szabolcs de Vajay in Annales de Bourgogne, XXXII:247–267 (Oct.–Dec. 1960), but the author subsequently made an unqualified retraction of this claim in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in Prosopographica et Genealogica, vol. 3: Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident medieval, K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2–6.
3. Cate 1969, p. 364.
4. Stroll 2004, p. 9.
5. Stroll 2004, p. 8.
6. Bouchard 1987, p. 146, 273.

Sources

• Bouchard, Constance Brittain (1987). Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and Church in Burgundy, 980-1198. Cornell University Press.
• Cate, James Lea (1969). "The Crusade of 1101". In Setton, Kenneth Meyer; Baldwin, M. W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years. The University of Wisconsin Press.
• Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1993). "The Prosopography of Post-Conquest England: Four case studies". Medieval Prosopography. 14 (1 (Spring)): 1–52.
• Stroll, Mary (2004). Calixtus II (1119-1124): A Pope Born to Rule. Brill.
• Portail sur Histoire Bourgogne et Histoire Franche-Comté, Gilles Maillet.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Reginald I	Count of Burgundy 1057–1087	Succeeded by Reginald II
Preceded by Guy II [fr]	Count of Mâcon 1078–1087