Renaud de Bourgogne I

• Preferred Name: Renaud de Bourgogne I^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Alternate Name: Renaud I, Count Palatine of Burgundy
  
• Alternate Name: Raynold De Bourgogne
  
• Alternate Name: Raynald I or Renaud I Of Burgundy
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 986 in Nevers, Nièvre, Burgundy, France at LATI: N6.9871 LONG: E0.1617
  
• Burial: 1057 in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France at LATI: N7.2396 LONG: E0.0209
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Count of Burgundy
  
• FSID: GVJW-9RQ
  
• Death: 4 SEP 1057 in Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France at LATI: N8.97 LONG: E0.25
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Renaud I st of Burgundy (986-1057) was Count of Burgundy (1 st count palatine of Burgundy) of anscarids the xi th century.
  
  «b»Biography 986«/b
  Son of the I st Count Otto-William and Adelaide Ermentrude Rheims and Roucy (daughter of Renaud of Roucy, count of Reims and Lord of Roucy and Albérade of Hainault, daughter of the Duke Gislebert of Lorraine and Gerberge of Saxony ). Adelaide de Reims was the heiress of the county of Mâcon by his first marriage with Aubry II of Mâcon (982 ).
  
  995: at the age of 20, his father combines the elder brother of Renaud de Bourgogne Guy I st Macon , born in 975, to power the county of Burgundy and the county of Macon , for his succession.
  
  1002: 27 years old, Guy I st Macon becomes Count of Macon.
  
  1004: Guy I st Macon died at the age of 29. His son Otton II of Mâcon succeeds him as Count of Mâcon. Otte-Guillaume shares his lands: his son Renaud receives the counties of Amous, Varais and Portois; Otton, his grandson receives Mâconnais and Escuens. Otte-Guillaume retains his rights over the counties of Frankish Burgundy (Beaumont, Fouvent and Oscheret). The Counts of Burgundy will for a long time retain many lands or suzerainties on counties located in the Duchy of Burgundy.
  
  1016: Renaud married Adélaïde de Normandie (1002-1038), daughter of Duke Richard II of Normandy and Judith of Brittany.
  
  1026: Renaud I st Burgundy succeeds, October 21, 1026, at the age of 40, under the Count of Burgundy , his father dies, and his brother Guy died.
  
  1027: Renaud I st of Burgundy is at war against the bishop count of Auxerre, Hugh of Chalon. This one makes him prisoner with Auxerre. Renaud I st is liberated by troops sent by his stepfather and led by the future Duke Richard III of Normandy.
  
  1032: Rodolphe III of Burgundy (last king of Burgundy) dies without posterity, on September 6, 1032. He had designated his cousin the Germanic emperor Conrad II the Salic as heir. His nephew Eudes II de Blois , son of his elder sister Bertha of Burgundy, raised against Conrad the Salic, the revolt of the feudal lords and prelates of the kingdom of Burgundy. The war of succession of Burgundy (1032-1034) and started is supported by Renaud I st of Burgundy, Count Gerold II Geneva, Archbishop of Vienna, the Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, as well as Archbishop of Lyon, Burchard II, bastard son of Conrad the Pacific and half-brother of Rodolphe III of Burgundy.
  
  In front of them, Conrad the Salique has the support of Héribert, Archbishop of Milan, Marquis Boniface III of Tuscany, Ermengarde, widow of Rodolphe III, and Humbert de Maurienne, former advisor and vassal of Rodolphe III today, better known as Humbert to the White Hands.
  
  Eudes II of Blois is crowned king of Burgundy in Lausanne, by his partisans, but in January 1033, the emperor is also crowned in Basel.
  
  The revolt fails and the kingdom of Burgundy must remain in the empire. In order to escape the imperial armies, Renaud de Bourgogne retires to Dijon, ducal Burgundy where he has retained many supports.
  
  1034: the German Emperor Conrad II takes possession of the kingdom of Burgundy (actually the county of Burgundy) and receives the 1 st August , the homage of his new vassals in Geneva.
  
  Conrad II vassalizes the county of Burgundy over many generations, to the detriment of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Kingdom of France.
  
  1037: Renaud I st of Burgundy and Odo II continue the fight against the imperial troops led by Gothelon I st of Lorraine and allied for the occasion, to those of the king of France Henry I st . November 15, Battle of Hanol, between Bar-le-Duc and Verdun. Death of Eudes II de Blois.
  
  Emperor Conrad II decides to lift the sentences against his opponents yesterday. Renaud I st of Burgundy, leader of the coalition receives in Dijon, embassy of the emperor, who announces reconciliation desires it. Renaud I st of Burgundy became count palatine (Pfalzgraf) of Burgundy, gave way in the German imperial administration, to those who are responsible for administering land and to administer justice in the name of the emperor. His successors will continue to wear this title.
  
  1038: Conrad II transmits the kingdom of Burgundy to his nephew Henry III . He made him crown King of Burgundy in Solothurn. The major, whose Renaud Count and the Archbishop of Besançon Hugues I er de Salins, are present at the event and must pay tribute to their new king.
  
  1039: Archbishop of Besancon, Hugues I st Salins , becomes the confidant Henry III. The emperor then granted a certain frank autonomy and the right to self-administer by his own government to the county of Burgundy. The Archbishop of Besançon is appointed Chancellor and has been widely awarded for his total and very devoted collaboration.
  
  1043: Henry III comes in Besancon, to become engaged to Agnes of Aquitaine , niece of Renaud I st of Burgundy, and daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, William V Poitiers. On this occasion, the Archbishop of Besancon, Hugues I er de Salins, gets royal rights over the city of Besançon (legal, political, fiscal and economic). He is appointed prince of the Germanic Empire (maximum rank before emperor) and reigns supreme over the city, with the emperor and the pope Gregory VII for only superiors. It escapes the power of the Counts of Burgundy.
  
  1044: Henry III continues to favor those who have supported his father. He gives the city of Montbeliard to Count Louis de Mousson. Renaud I st Burgundy revolt against the Emperor again, allied to the Count Gerold Geneva. He besieged the castle of Montbeliard, but Count Louis defeated their troops and thus maintains the independence of Montbéliard vis-à-vis the county of Burgundy. The two counts submit the following year to the emperor.
  
  1057: in September, Count Renaud disappears at the age of 71 years. His son Guillaume (1057-1087), succeeds him. He had already been associated with county decisions for several years, and was in charge of the county of Burgundy in the absence of his father. Renaud I st of Burgundy was buried in St. Stephen's Cathedral Besancon, replaced the xviii th century by St John's Cathedral, which were transferred to the graves of counts of Burgundy (Sacred Heart chapel).
  
  «b»Descendancy«/b»
  From his marriage to Adelaide of Normandy, Renaud I st of Burgundy had four son and two daughters:
  
  1.) Guillaume I er Burgundy said the Grand or Tête Hardie (1020-1087) who succeeded him as Count of Burgundy
  
  2.) Gui de Brionne or Gui de Bourgogne (v 1025-1069), raised at the court of Normandy, who wanted to succeed the duchy of Normandy against his cousin William of Normandy (future William the Conqueror). He had to separate from his counties of Brionne and Vernon in Normandy, having been at the head of the coalition of the barons of Normandy, which was defeated at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes in 1047. Gui de Brionne found refuge with his uncle Geoffroy II Martel, Count of Anjou. On the death of Renaud I st from Burgundy, he tried to delight the county of Burgundy for about ten years to his brother Guillaume.
  
  3.) Hugues de Bourgogne, called Superalios (cited in 1037- v. 1086), Viscount of Lons-le-Saunier , Lord of Montmorot, Navilly and Scey, married to Aldeberge de Scey. And their son Thibert I st Montmorot, Viscount of Lons-le-Saunier (house Montmorot, alias Montmoret)
  
  4.) Foulques de Bourgogne, aka Foulques de Joux de Grandson (quoted in 1060-1114) (after the chronicler Herman de Laon), married to Alix de Roucy (v 1055-?) (Home of Grandson)
  
  5.) Aubrée of Buonalbergo
  
  Renaud I st of Burgundy also rose to his court Robert Nevers (1035-1098), "Le Bourguignon", son of Renaud I st Nevers (1000-1040), his nephew. Robert de Nevers is at the origin of the house of Craon-Nevers. His grandson Robert de Craon, also known as Le Bourguignon, succeeded Hugues de Payns as second Master of the Order of the Temple.
  
  === Not everyone named Renaud was the same person ===
  There were three different counts named Renaud living at the same approximate time that for reasons known only to the perpetrators keep getting combined into a single person.
  
  Renaud I, Count of Nevers and Auxerre (d. 1040) married Helwig/Alvise of France. If the children are named 'de Nevers' it is to this couple they belong.
  He is different than:
  Renaud I, Count of Burgundy (d. 1057) married Adelaide of Normandy. Their childred were, unsuurprisingly, the ones here said to be 'of Burgundy'.
  Both of these are distinct from:
  Renaud I, Count of Soissons (d. 1057) married Lesceline, and had a daughter Adelaide of Soissons - the name tells you, again, which Renaud her father was.
  
  These three men should not be merged, nor should their children be randomly attached to the first person named Renaud one comes across.

• m. 1016

1. Adélaïde de Soissons Comtesse de Troyes, b. 1020 in France     d. 1090
2. Guillaume I le grand de Bourgogne, b. ABT 1020 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France     d. 12 NOV 1087 in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France

• m. 1 SEP 1016 in France

1. Title: Renaud I de Bourgogne, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-NJM5 : 6 August 2020), Renaud I de Bourgogne, ; Burial, Besancon, Departement du Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, Cathédrale Saint-Jean de Besançon; citing record ID 103437566, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-NJM5;
   
2. Title: Reginald I, Count of Burgundy
   Author: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_I,_Count_of_Burgundy;
   Note: Reginald I was the second count of the Free County of Burgundy. Born in 986, he was the son of Otto-William,[1] the first count, and Ermentrude de Roucy. In 1016, Reginald married Alice of Normandy.[2] He succeeded to the county on his father's death in 1026. Reginald was succeeded by his son, William I, on his death in 1057. Reginald married Alice and had the following children: William I of Burgundy[3] Guy (c. 1025–1069),[4] unsuccessful claimant to the Duchy of Normandy and County of Burgundy Hugh (c. 1037 – c. 1086), Viscount of Lons-le-Saunier, sire Montmorot, Navilly and Scey married to Aldeberge Scey. They had a son Montmorot Thibert, founder of the house Montmorot (or Montmoret). Falcon or Fouques of Burgundy (fate unknown).
   Page: Source document for Reginald I, Count of Burgundy
   
3. Title: Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands database
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDIAN%20NOBILITY.htm#RenaudIComtedied1057A;
   
4. Title: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Reginald_I,_Count_of_Burgundy
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_I,_Count_of_Soissons;
   
5. Title: RENAUD de Mâcon, son of OTHON GUILLAUME Comte de Mâcon [Bourgogne-Comté] & his first wife Ermentrude de Roucy ([990]-3/4 Sep 1057, bur Besançon)
   Author: Projects/MedLands
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDIAN%20NOBILITY.htm;
   Note: RENAUD de Mâcon, son of OTHON GUILLAUME Comte de Mâcon [Bourgogne-Comté] & his first wife Ermentrude de Roucy ([990]-3/4 Sep 1057, bur Besançon). Rodulfus Glaber names "Rainaldus" as one of the sons of "Willemus, Henrici ducis priuignus, Adalberti Longobardorum ducis filius" & his wife[158]. He succeeded his father in 1026 as RENAUD I Comte de Bourgogne, although at that time the "county of Burgundy" did not yet exist as such, the title being purely descriptive of the area in which Renaud exercised his power[159].
   Page: Source document for RENAUD de Mâcon, son of OTHON GUILLAUME Comte de Mâcon [Bourgogne-Comté] & his first wife Ermentrude de Roucy ([990]-3/4 Sep 1057, bur Besançon).