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  • Name Constance of Arles 
    Suffix queen consort of the Franks 
    Nickname Constance of Berengar 'Berenger' 
    Born Abt 973 
    Christened born, Tolouse Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Christening 998  Aquitaine,, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Grevinne, Drottning av Frankrike, Drottning av Frankrike, Queen Consort of France (1001-1031), Queen consort of the Franks, Queen of France, Queen Consort of France, Queen of the Franks, QUEEN OF FRANCE, b. abt 0986, Princess, reine de France 
    Occupation Sep 1001 
    Queen Consort of France 
    Address:
    France
    France 
    Occupation 20 Jul 1031 
    Queen Mother of France 
    Address:
    France
    France 
    Residence France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Abt 1032  Basilique Saint-Denis Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Saint-Denis
    Saint-Denis, Île-de-France
    France 
    Died 22 Jul 1032  Château de Melun Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Melun
    Melun, Île-de-France
    France 
    Notes 
    • {geni:about_me} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_of_Arles

      http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_d%E2%80%99Arles

      http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00007644&tree=LEO

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      "Constance d'Arles - also known as Constance de Provence [ .. ] fille de Guillaume Ier (c.950-†993) comte d’Arles, et Adélaïde d'Anjou (†1026)"

      Daughter of Guillaume Ier d'Arles (William I, count of Provence) and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou

      Children:

      Constance and Robert had seven children:

      1. Advisa, Countess of Auxerre (c. 1003 – after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers

      2. Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007 – 17 September 1025)

      3. Henri (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060)

      4. Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009 – 5 June 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders

      5. Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011 – 21 March 1076)

      6. Eudes (1013–1056)

      7. Constance (born 1014, date of death unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

      Enfants:

      Constance et Robert ont sept enfants :

      * Advisa, comtesse d'Auxerre, (c.1003 - après 1063), épouse le comte Renaud Ier de Nevers

      * Hugues (1007 - 17 septembre 1025), associé au trône par son père (1017), mais qui meurt prématurément.

      * Henri (4 mai, 1008 - 4 août, 1060)

      * Adèle de France, comtesse de Contenance (1009 - 5 juin, 1063), épouse le duc Richard III de Normandie, puis le comte Baudouin V de Flandre

      * Robert Ier de Bourgogne (1011 - 21 mars, 1076)

      * Eudes (1013 - 1056)

      * Constance (1014- ?), épouse le comte Manassès de Dammartin. Ce mariage fait entrer les terres de Dammartin, aux bords des terres royales, au sein de la Maison de Montdidier, créant la Maison de Dammartin-Montdidier. A cette occasion, Dammartin est érigé en comté.







      Constance d'Arles

      F, #103099, b. circa 973, d. 25 July 1032

      Last Edited=19 Jun 2005

      Constance d'Arles was born circa 973. She was the daughter of Guillaume III Taillefer, Comte de Provence and Adelaide d'Anjou. (1)

      She married Robert II, Roi de France, son of Hugues de Paris, Roi de France and Adelaide de Poitou, in 1003.

      She was also reported to have been married circa 1000.

      She died on 25 July 1032.

      Constance d'Arles was also known as Constance de Taillefer. (2)

      Children of Constance d'Arles and Robert II, Roi de France

      -1. Hugues III, Roi de France b. 1007, d. c 1025 (4)

      -2. Henri I, Roi de France+ b. Apr 1008, d. 4 Aug 1060 (4)

      -3. Adela de France, Princesse de France+ b. 1009, d. 8 Jan 1079 (2)

      -4. Robert I de Bourgogne, Duc de Bourgogne+ b. c 1011, d. 21 Mar 1076 (5)

      Citations

      [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.

      [S45] Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, volume I (1941; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), page 63. Hereinafter cited as Pedigrees of Emperor Charlemagne, I.

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      Barn:

      Hugh CAPET King of France

      Henry I CAPET King of France

      Robert I CAPET Duke of Burgundy

      Adele (Alix) CAPET Princess of France

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      http://www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/010/010405.php

      The family of Robert II le Pieux de FRANCE and Constance de PROVENCE

      [10405] FRANCE (de), Robert II le Pieux (Hugues Capet & Adélaïde .. [10406]), roi de France, born about 970, died 1031-07-20 Melun (Seine-et-Marne : 770288), France, buried Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis : 930066), France

      * married 1003 or 1005 .. (France)

      PROVENCE (de), Constance (Guillaume II & Adèle dite Blanche d'ANJOU [128949]), born 986, died 1032-07, buried Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis : 930066), France

      1) Adèle, born 1009, died 1079, married 1028 Baudouin V de FLANDRES

      2) Henri Ier, roi de France, born about 1005, died 1060-08-04 Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret : 450346), France, buried Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis : 930066), France, married Reims (Marne : 510454), France 1051-05-19 Anne de KIEV ou de RUSSIE

      Bibliographie : Histoire de la maison royale de France (Père Anselme); Mémoires (Société généalogique canadienne-française)

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      I 1001, 3) Constance av Arles (973-25. juli 1034), datter av grev Guilhem II av Provence, var en ambisiøs og intrigerende kvinne som gjorde livet ulykkelig for ektemannen ved å oppmuntre sønnene til å gjøre opprør mot faren. Hun var mor til hans følgende barn:

      Barn og etterkommere

      Advisa, grevinne av Auxerre, (ca 1003-en gang etter 1063), gift med grev Renaud I av Nevers. Deres barn arvet landene Nevers og Auxerre.

      Hugo Magnus, samkonge (1007-17. september 1025). Etter sigende ble Hugo før sin død trolovet eller gift med Halwisa (Hawisa?) eller Elisabeth d'Avoye, datter av en Henri l'Oiseteur. Denne Elisabeth har spesiell interesse for engelsk historie ved at hun senere giftet seg for andre gang med Hamon, greve av Corbeil. Hamon var en yngre bror av William, greve av Corbeil (mulig også kjent som William, greve av Arques), og som sådan var han en etterkommer av Rikard I, hertug av Normandie, og oldefar til Vilhelm II, hertug av Normandie, senere kalt for «Vilhelm Erobrenen». En av Hamon og Elisabeths sønner var øyensynlig Robert Fitzhamon (født mellom 1045-1055 og død 1107) som var en viktig skikkelse i anglo-normannisk historie fra 1087 til 1106. Men, disse ekteskap og forbindelser mellom Hamon og hertugene av Normandie har ennå ikke blitt tilfredsstillende bevist.

      Henrik (4. mai 1008-4. august 1060), den neste kongen.

      Adela, grevinne av Contenance (1009-5. juni 1063), gift første gang med hertug Rikard III av Normandie, og deretter med grev Baldwin V av Flandern. Med sistnevnte kalles hun for Adela, grevinne av Flandern og er bedre kjent som mor til Matilda av Flandern, hustru til «Vilhelm Erobrenen» (se over).

      1. Robert I, hertug av Bourgogne (1011-21. mars 1076). Forfar til Huset Capet i Bourgogne.

      2. Eudes (1013-1056), døde etter en mislykket invasjon av Normandie.

      3. Constance (1014-ukjent), gift med Manasses de Dammartin.

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      Children

      1. Avise De CAPET, b. 1004, d. 1079

      2. Henri I Capet of FRANCE, b. 1008, Of, Reims, Champagne, France , d. 4 Aug 1060, Vitry, Brie, , France

      3. Robert I Capet, of BURGUNDY, b. 1011, Anjou, France , d. 18 Mar 1075/76, Fleury-Sur-Ouche, France



      4. Adelaide Havoise Capet, D'AUXERRE, b. 1012, France , d. 8 Jan 1078/79, Monastère De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, , France

      5. Constance Capet, of France, b. 1014, France

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      Also known as Constance of Toulouse and Constance of Provence.

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      http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstanze_von_Provence

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      Em 1003, casou-se com Roberto II o Pio depois de este ser obrigado a se separar de Berta da Borgonha. Na verdade o rei de França vivia em concubinato com Berta depois de ter repudiado a sua primeira esposa Rosália de Ivrea em 996. Os papas Gregório V e Silvestre II tinham declarado essa união ilegal e ameaçado os amantes de excomunhão. Como, aos 29 anos de idade, dessa união só tivesse nascido um nado-morto, Roberto acabou por ceder à anulação do matrimônio em 1003 e por se casar com Constança de Arles.

      No entanto, Constança foi pouco amada na corte devido à influência provençal que a acompanhou e às suas intrigas e crueldade — ela mesma mandou acusar o seu confessor de heresia — e Roberto tentou repudiá-la várias vezes para voltar a casar com Berta da Borgonha, que nunca deixara de amar e de ver.

      Hugo de Beauvais tentou convencer o rei a repudiar Constança em 1007. A resposta desta foi mandar os cavaleiros de Fulque III, conde de Anjou assassinar o nobre. Em 1008 Roberto deslocou-se a Roma, acompanhado de Berta, para obter permissão para se separar da esposa e casar-se com a sua amada. Constança encorajou os seus filhos a revoltarem-se contra o pai.

      A pedido de Constança, o seu filho mais velho Hugo Magno foi coroado rei em 1017, subordinado ao pai, conforme o costume dos primeiros capetianos. Hugo exigiu que o seu pai partilhasse o poder com ele e como aquele não cedesse, rebelou-se em 1025. Morreu subitamente nesse mesmo ano, exilado e fugitivo.

      O casal real discordava sobre qual dos dois filhos sobreviventes deveria herdar o trono, mas entretanto a rainha apoiou a rebelião de ambos contra o rei, com Roberto a tomar o ducado da Borgonha e Henrique a tomar Dreux. O rei Roberto II acabaria por ceder aos filhos e conseguiu uma paz até ao fim do seu reinado.

      Era conhecida a sua preferência em ver o filho Roberto suceder ao seu marido, mas este último escolheu Henrique, que seria coroado em 1027. Fulbert, bispo de Chartres escreveu uma carta declarando ter sido "intimidado" a não comparecer à consagração de Henrique "pela selvajaria da sua mãe, em quem se deve acreditar quando promete fazer mal."

      Aquando da morte do rei, reteve as terras que eram suas por dote e chegou a tentar assassinar o seu filho Henrique, mas a tentativa fracassou e este subiu ao trono. Depois de fugir para a Normandia, o novo rei negociou uma ajuda, armas e homens com o irmão, que conseguiu pressioná-lo a ceder o ducado da Borgonha. Voltou para cercar a mãe em Poissy, mas esta escapou para Pontoise e só se rendeu quando Henrique cercou Puiset e ameaçou assassinar todos os seus habitantes.

      Afastada da corte, Constança faleceu em Melun aos 49 anos de idade, a 22 ou 25 de Julho de 1032. Foi sepultada junto ao esposo na igreja da abadia real de Saint-Denis.

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      From http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps03/ps03_464.htm

      For an extended discussion of the puzzle of her parentage, see "England Under the Angevin Kings," Kate Norgate (N.Y.: Haskel House, 1969), Vol. 1, pp. 190ff.

      References: [ES],[AR7],[MRL],[Weis1]

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      From the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy page on Provence:

      http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/PROVENCE.htm#ConstanceArlesMRobertIIFrancedied1031

      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[283]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines also names "Constantia filia fuit Blanche comitisse Arelatensis" as wife of "Robertus rex"[284].

      The Chronicon Hugonis names "Constantiam" as wife of "Robertus", specifying that she was "cognatam Hugonis Autisiodorensis episcopi comitis Cabilonensis"[285]. 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[286]. 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"[287].

      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"[288], but he restored Constance's royal prerogatives end 1009[289].

      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[290]. She organised two revolts against King Robert and another against her son King Henri I after his accession[291].

      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[292]. The necrology of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés records the death "XI Kal Aug" of "regina Constancia"[293]. The necrology of Argenteuil Priory records the death "VIII Kal Aug" of "Constancia regina"[294].

      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 d’Aquitaine (Orléans ([27 Mar] 972-Château de Melun 20 Jul 1031, bur église de l'Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis).

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      From the Wikipedia page on Constance of Arles:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_of_Arles

      Constance of Arles (also known as Constance of Provence) (986 - 25 July 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France.

      She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the half-sister of Count William II of Provence.

      Biography

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk.

      Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with a heretical sect of canons, nuns, and clergy in 1022[1]), the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore: "At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand."

      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive.

      Robert and Constance quarrelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027.

      Fulbert, bishop of Chartres wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son Henri and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them.

      Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:

      1.Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers

      2.Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-17 September 1025)

      3.Henri (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060)

      4.Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-5 June 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders

      5.Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-21 March 1076)

      6.Eudes (1013-1056)

      7.Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

      References

      "The heresy was sui generis, probably an amalgam of neoplatonic speculation and of inferences made from the search, familiar to biblical scholars of the time, for an inner meaning beneath the literal surface of the text of Scripture 'written on animal skins.' The radical nature of the denials of the adherents of the doctrines of incarnation and resurrection, have led some historians to argue that the heresy was imported, to some degree ready-made, and that it represents a fragmentary influence from the developed heretical tradition of the movement of the Bogomils, then spreading from its cradle-land in Bulgaria into other parts ... But the absence of any external evidence of Bogomil missionizing at this time and a wider realization of the number of factors in Western society which fostered dissisence in the eleventh century ... have caused the theory to lose support. What seems most likely is that the heresy was intellectual in origin and a facet of the reawakening of learning in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries." Malcolm Lambert, Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1991) 16 - 17.

      Sources

      Jessee, W. Scott. A missing Capetian princess: Advisa, daughter of King Robert II of France (Medieval Prosopography), 1990

      Nolan, Kathleen D. Capetian Women, 2003.

      Moore, R.I. The Birth of Popular Heresy, 1975.

      Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 53-21, 101-21, 107-20, 108-21, 128-21, 141-21, 141A-21, 185-2.

      Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation, 1991, 9 - 17.

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      From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Bertha of Borgogne (uncertain of the connection with this ancestor):

      http://www.thepeerage.com/p10311.htm#i103102

      Bertha de Bourgogne1

      F, #103102, b. circa 962, d. after 1035

      Last Edited=21 Feb 2003

      Bertha de Bourgogne was born circa 962. She was the daughter of Conrad, Roi de Jurane Bourgogne and Elfgifu (?).2 She married, firstly, Eudes I, Comte de Champagne circa 983. She married, secondly, Robert II, Roi de France, son of Hugues de Paris, Roi de France and Adelaide de Poitou, in 996. She and Robert II, Roi de France were divorced in 1000.2 She died after 1035.

      Children of Bertha de Bourgogne and Eudes I, Comte de Champagne

      1. Stephen II, Comte de Champagne+ d. 1048

      2. Thibaud III, Comte de Blois+ b. c 1019, d. c 1089

      Citations

      [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 56. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.

      [S16] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 64.

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      From the Wikipedia page of Adelaide of Susa:

      (Uncertain the connection with this ancestor)

      Adelaide of Susa (also Adelheid, Adelais, or Adeline; c 1014/20 – 19 December 1091[1]) was the Marchioness of Turin from 1034 to her death. She moved the seat of the march from Turin to Susa and settled the itinerant court there. She was the last of the Arduinici.

      Born in Turin to Ulric Manfred II and Bertha, daughter of Oberto II around 1014/20, Adelaide's early life is not well-known. Her only brother predeceased her father in 1034, though she had two younger sisters, Immilla and Bertha. Thus, on Ulric's death, the great margraviate was divided between his three daughters, though the greatest part by far went to Adelaide. She received the counties of Ivrea, Auriate, Aosta, and Turin. The margravial title, however, had primarily a military purpose at the time and, thus, was not suitable for a woman.

      Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, therefore arranged a marriage between Adelaide and Herman IV, Duke of Swabia, to serve as margrave of Turin after Ulric's death (1034). The two were married in January 1037, but Herman died of the plague while fighting at Naples in July 1038.[2]

      Adelaide remarried in order to secure her vast march to Henry of Montferrat (1041), but he died in 1045 and left her a widow for the second time. Immediately, a third marriage was undertaken, this time to Otto of Savoy (1046). With Otto she had three sons, Peter I, Amadeus II, and Otto. She also had two daughters, Bertha and Adelaide. Bertha, the countess of Maurienne, married the Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, while Adelaide married Rudolf of Rheinfeld, who opposed Henry as King of Germany.

      After 1060, Adelaide acted as regent for her sons. In 1068, Henry tried to divorce Bertha and consequently drove Adelaide to an intense hatred of him and his family. However, through the intervention of Bertha, Henry received Adelaide's support when he came to Italy to submit to Pope Gregory VII and Matilda of Tuscany at Canossa. Adelaide and Amadeus accompanied the humiliated emperor to Canossa. In gratitude for her mediation, Henry donated Bugey to Adelaide and her family and took back Bertha as his wife, returning to Germany.

      Adelaide later played the mediator between her two royal sons-in-law, Henry and the aforementioned Rudolf during the wars of the 1080s in Germany. She was an opponent of the Gregorian reform, though she honoured the papacy, and defender of the autonomy of abbacies.

      In 1091, Adelaide died, to the general mourning of her people, and was buried in the parochial church of Canischio (Canisculum), a small village on the Cuorgnè in the Valle dell'Orco, to which she had retired in her later years.[3] In the Cathedral of San Giusto in Susa, in a niche in the wall, there is a statue of walnut wood, beneath a bronze veneer, representing Adelaide, genuflecting in prayer. Above it can be read the inscription: Questa è Adelaide, cui l'istessa Roma Cole, e primo d'Ausonia onor la noma.

      Adelaide had passed her childhood amongst the retainers of her father and had even learned the martial arts when young, bearing her own arms and armour. She was reputed to be beautiful and virtuous. She was pious, putting eternal things ahead of temporal. Strong in temperament, she did not hesitate to punish even the bishops and grandees of her realm. She patronised the minstrels and always received them at her court, urging them to compose songs emphasising religious values. She was a founder of cloisters and monasteries that transmitted the history of the region. The only failure of Adelaide's career was the loss of the County of Albon. Greatly admired in her own time, she was compared to Deborah of Biblical fame and was known affectionately as the "marchioness of the Italians." Peter Damian summed up her life and career in the admiring words:

      “ Tu, senza l'aiuto di un re, sostieni il peso del regno, ed a te ricorrono quelli che alle loro decisioni desiderano aggiungere il peso di una sentenza legale. Dio onnipotente benedica te ed i tuoi figlioli d'indole regia.

      You, without the help of a king, sustain the weight of a kingdom, and to you return those who wish to add to their decisions the weight of legal pronouncement. Omnipotent God bless you and your regal children. ”

      Children

      Adelaide and Herman IV, Duke of Swabia had at least three children:

      Gebhard I, Count of Sulzbach

      Adalbert I, Count of Windberg

      Adelaide, married Hermann von Peugen

      Adelaide and Otto of Savoy had five children:

      Peter I of Savoy

      Amedeus II of Savoy

      Otto, Bishop of Asti

      Bertha of Savoy, married Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

      Adelaide (died 1080), married Rudolf von Rheinfeld

      [edit] Notes

      1.^ Also given as 27 December.[1]

      2.^ Herman is stated to have died after eighteen months of matrimony in July 1038.[2]

      3.^ Her burial is also placed in San Giusto, Susa, or San Giovanni, Turin[3].

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      Constance of Arles (also known as Constance of Provence) (986 - 25 July 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the half-sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with a heretical sect of canons, nuns, and clergy in 1022[1]), the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.

      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarrelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, bishop of Chartres wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son Henri and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      [edit] Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:

      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers

      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-17 September 1025)

      Henri (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060)

      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-5 June 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders

      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-21 March 1076)

      Eudes (1013-1056)

      Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

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      Ancestral Roots, Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before1700, 7th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999), 53-21. Referência tirada da página web de: Gordon Banks

      PO Box 400 Amity, OR 97101 http://www.gordonbanks.com/gordon/family/2nd_Site/geb-p/s2.htm#168

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      Constance d'Arles

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      Constance of Arles:In 1003, she was the third wife of King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy.

      The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra.

      In 1010 Robert went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha.

      Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_of_Arles

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      Sources:

      H et G 166 p. 88: Edouard de Saint-Phalle

      H et G 178 p 76: Edouard de Saint Phalle

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      Constance of Arles (986 – 25 July 1034), also known as Constance of Provence, was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the half-sister of Count William II of Provence.

      Biography

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with a heretical sect of canons, nuns, and clergy in 1022[1]), the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.

      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarrelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, bishop of Chartres wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son Henri and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      [edit] Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:

      1. Advisa, Countess of Auxerre (c. 1003 – after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers

      2. Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007 – 17 September 1025)

      3. Henri (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060)

      4. Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009 – 5 June 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders

      5. Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011 – 21 March 1076)

      6. Eudes (1013–1056)

      7. Constance (born 1014, date of death unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

      Queen consort of the Franks

      Tenure 1001–1031

      Spouse Robert II of France

      Issue

      Hugh Magnus of France

      Henry I of France

      Adela of France, Countess of Flanders

      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy

      House House of Capet

      Father William I, Count of Provence

      Mother Adelais of Anjou

      Born 986

      Died 25 July 1034 (aged 47–48)

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      Constance of Arles (also known as Constance of Provence) (986 - July 25, 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

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      Contradicting sources :

      She was not the daughter of William Taillefer of Toulouse. Constance de Provence dit d'Arles was born circa 986 in Arles, Bouche-du-Rhones, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. She was the daughter of Guilhem I "le Libérateur", duc de Provence and Adele Blanche, comtesse d' Anjou . She married Robert II "le Pieux", roi des Francs, son of Hugues "Capet", roi des Francs Occidentale and Adélaïde d' Aquitaine , in 1003; His 3rd. Submitted to the Pope for approval.7,5 Queen of France. She died on 25 July 1032 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France.8,9,2,3,4 Constance de Provence dit d'Arles was buried in the Basilica of St. Denis, Paris, France.

      [Anselme de Sainte-Marie (augustin déchaussé), Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne et de la maison du roy et des anciens barons du royaume. (Reprod. de l'éd. de Paris : chez Estienne Loyson, 1674: Num. BNF de l'éd. de Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1987. 1 microfilmReprod. de l'éd. de Paris : Compagnie des libraires associez, 1730, 1730), III:196; I:7,8].

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      Aquando da morte do rei, reteve as terras que eram suas por dote e chegou a tentar assassinar o seu filho Henrique, mas a tentativa fracassou e este subiu ao trono. Depois de fugir para a Normandia, o novo rei negociou uma ajuda, armas e homens com o irmão, que conseguiu pressioná-lo a ceder o ducado da Borgonha. Voltou para cercar a mãe em Poissy, mas esta escapou para Pontoise e só se rendeu quando Henrique cercou Puiset e ameaçou assassinar todos os seus habitantes.

      Afastada da corte, Constança faleceu em Melun aos 49 anos de idade, a 22 ou 25 de Julho de 1032. Foi sepultada junto ao esposo na igreja da abadia real de Saint-Denis.


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      Constance of Arles (986 – 25 July 1034), also known as Constance of Provence, was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the half-sister of Count William II of Provence.

      Biography

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with a heretical sect of canons, nuns, and clergy in 1022[1]), the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.

      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarrelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, bishop of Chartres wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son Henri and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.
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      Constance of Arles (986 – 25 July 1034), also known as Constance of Provence, was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the half-sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.
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      Constance of Arles
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      Constance of Arles
      Queen consort of the Franks
      Tenure 1001–1031
      Spouse Robert II of France
      Issue
      Hugh Magnus of France
      Henry I of France
      Adela of France, Countess of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy
      House House of Capet
      Father William I, Count of Provence
      Mother Adelais of Anjou
      Born 986
      Died 25 July 1034 (aged 47–48)

      Constance of Arles (986 – 25 July 1034), also known as Constance of Provence, was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the half-sister of Count William II of Provence.
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      1 Biography
      2 Children
      3 References
      4 Sources
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      [edit] Biography

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with a heretical sect of canons, nuns, and clergy in 1022[1]), the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.

      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarrelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, bishop of Chartres wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son Henri and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.
      [edit] Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:

      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre (c. 1003 – after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007 – 17 September 1025)
      Henri (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060)
      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009 – 5 June 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011 – 21 March 1076)
      Eudes (1013–1056)
      Constance (born 1014, date of death unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

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      Constance of Arles (986 – 25 July 1034), also known as Constance of Provence, was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the half-sister of Count William II of Provence.
      In 1001, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk and customs. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. The knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra, then murdered Beauvais, perhaps at her order.
      In 1010 Robert went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.
      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with a heretical sect of canons, nuns, and clergy in 1022), the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:
      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.
      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.
      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarrelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, bishop of Chartres wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."
      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.
      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son Henri and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.
      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

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      Children:
      Constance and Robert had seven children:
      1.Advisa, Countess of Auxerre (c. 1003 – after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      2.Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007 – 17 September 1025)
      3.Henri (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060)
      4.Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009 – 5 June 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      5.Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011 – 21 March 1076)
      6.Eudes (1013–1056)
      7.Constance (born 1014, date of death unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

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      In 1001, Robert entered into his final and longest-lasting marriage to Constance of Arles, the daughter of William I of Provence. She was an ambitious and scheming woman, who made life miserable for her husband by encouraging her sons to revolt against their father.
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      Drottning av Frankrike 1003-1031 talet. Constance ifrågasattes av anhängarna til Roberts första maka Bertha. Då Hugh av Beauvais år 1007 försökte övertala Robert att förskjuta henne fick hon honom mördad av sin släkting Fulk Nerra.Hon var också impopulär för sitt hov av provencalska favoriter. År 1010 besökte maken Rom med sin förra maka Bertha för att be om påvens tillåtelse att skiljas från Constance och gifta om sig med Bertha. År 1022 ställdes Herefast de Crepons sekt inför rätta i Orleans, Constance förhindrade att sekten lynchades genom att ställa sig i dörren till den kyrka där de hölls fångna, men då de fördes ut slog hon också ut ögat på en av dem, sin förra biktfader Stephen, 1017 fick hon sin son Hugh Magnus krönt till medregent, han gjorde uppror och dog 1025.
      Constance stödde sin son Robert framför sin son Henrik i arvsföljden, men det var Henrik som 1027 kröntes till samregent. Hon uppmanade sönerna Robert och Henrik att göra uppror mot sin far, och den förra attackerade Burgund och den andre Dreux.
      Vid makens död tog Constance kontroll över flera landområden. Henrik flydde till sin bror Robert i Normandie, där han fick hjälp att belägra sin mor i Poissy, hon retireade till Pontoise, men kapitulerade då Henrik belägrade Le Puiset och svor att slakta dess invånare.
    • NOTE: The identity of Constance of Arles has caused much concern.Ferdinand Lot (Lott, F. 1891), 99. 366-369, showed definitely the Angevinrelation of Constance and the identity of her mother, Adelaide of Anjou.[Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed., GenealogicalPublishing Company, Baltimore MD, 1998, p. 172, Line 333, Gen.34.]Ancestral File Number: 9G84-SR
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    • _P_CCINFO 1-2782
    • Constança de Arles, ou Constança da Provença (986 - 22 ou 25 de Julho de 1032), foi rainha consorte de França, casada com Roberto II de França. Era filha de Adelaide-Branca de Anjou (m. 1026) e de Guilherme I, conde da Provença e Arles (c.950-993).
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    • from "Our Folk" by Albert D Hart, Jr.

    • from "Our Folk" by Albert D Hart, Jr.
    • Constance van de Provence, ook bekend als van Arles, geb. ca. 986, ovl. 25.07.1032 in Melun, begraven in St-Denis, ref. nr. 09.03.2004 ES II-11 /-187, FK.6,23
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    • ! (1) Queen of France
    • Data From Lynn Jeffrey Bernhard, 2445 W 450 South #4, Springville UT 84663-4950
      email - bernhardengineer@netscape.net
    • !BIRTH: "Royal Ancestors" by Michel Call - Based on Call Family Pedigrees FHL
      film 844805 & 844806, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT. Copy of
      "Royal Ancestors" owned by Lynn Bernhard, Orem, UT.

      Data From Lynn Jeffrey Bernhard, 2445 W 450 South #4, Springville UT 84663-4950
      email - bernhardengineer@netscape.net
    • Data From Lynn Jeffrey Bernhard, 2445 W 450 South #4, Springville UT 84663-4950
      email - bernhardengineer@netscape.net

    • I choose not to pursue this farther. 5/10/2001
    • Lady Constance was the daughter of William 111, count of Toulouse
    • Alias: Berthe, Bertha
    • Lady Constance was the daughter of William 111, count of Toulouse
    • Alias: Constance
    • --Other Fields

      Ref Number: 638
    • --Other Fields

      Ref Number: 301
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      TITL [QUEEN OF FRANCE]/
    • SOURCE NOTES:
      www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal02459
    • RESEARCH NOTES:
      Also given as daughter of William of Provence
    • ! (1) Queen of France
    • ! (1) Countess of Vienne
    • AKA: Constance of Provence
    • She was the third wife of Robert, who was forced by the Pope to annul
      his second marriage to his cousin Bertha of Bergundy. Constance was an
      "opportunist and a manipulator of men with a wicked reputation"
    • Les Sources du Regne de Hughes Capet Revue Historique
      Tome XXVIII Paris 1891, P. Violet
    • Bertha of Burgundy (952, 964 or 967 - 1010, 16 January 1016, or 1035) was the daughter of Conrad the Peaceful, King of Burgundy and his wife Matilda, daughter of Louis IV, King of France and Gerberga of Saxony. She was named for her father's mother, Bertha of Swabia.

      She first married Odo I, Count of Blois in about 983. They had several children, including Odo II.

      After the death of her husband in 996, Bertha's cousin Robert, co-King of France wished to marry her, in place of his repudiated first wife Rozala, who was many years his senior. The union was opposed by Robert's father, Hugh Capet, due to the close relation of husband and wife. However, the marriage went ahead after Hugh's death in October 996, which left Robert as sole king.

      The closeness of Robert and Bertha by blood was such that Church authorities considered the marriage illegal. Accordingly, Pope Gregory V declared the pair excommunicate. This, and the lack of children (save one, who lived and died in 999), caused Robert to agree with Pope Silvester II to have the marriage annulled in 1000.

      Robert went on to marry Constance of Arles. Bertha remained unmarried.
    • GJ
    • GJ=Gary Jacobson www.garyjacobson.org/ahnentafel.html
    • 852677953. Grevinne Constance WILHELMSDTR av Provence was born in 988.(19149) She died on 25 Jul 1032.(19150) She was a Grevinne in Provence
    • "OF ARLES & TOULOUSE"
    • "OF BURGUNDY"
    • ! (1) Queen of France
    • ! (1) Queen of France
    • _P_CCINFO 1-20792
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    • BIOGRAPHY
      Daughter of Guillaume II, count of Arles and Provence and Adelaide of Anjou, Constance was born about 986 in Arles. About 1001 she married Robert II, king of France, who had repudiated his second wife Berthe of Burgundy. The Pope had already excommunicated the king for repudiating his first marriage to Rosela Roxana of Italy.

      Constance was little liked at court because of her intrigues and cruelty; she had her confessor blinded on the basis of an accusation of heresy. Robert II attempted several times to repudiate her and return to Berthe of Burgundy as he had never ceased loving and seeing her. The court was soon divided into those favouring Constance and those for Berthe.

      Constance and Robert II had six children. She preferred her younger son Robert and wanted him to be the heir to the throne, but her husband chose Henri the elder son to succeed him. After the death of Robert II she tried to kill Henri, but the attempt failed and he became king. Robert became count of Burgundy. Expelled from the court, Constance died in Melun on 25 July 1032.
    • Geboren in 986 - Arles Gestorven op 25 juli 1032 - Meulan, Aquitanie , leeftijd bij overlijden: 46 jaar oud
    • [De La Pole.FTW]
      Sources: RC 134, 140, 154, 232, 333, 397; Coe; A. Roots 53, 101, 108, 141A; Kraentzler 1171, 1176, 1179, 1181, 1218, 1224, 1225, 1258, 1265, 1290; AF; Pfafman; Royal Descents; AIS; and a pedigree sheet based on the work of Christian Settipani, written in French. Settipani says Constance's father was William II, Duke and Marquis of Provence, 979-983. And that his mother was Constantia, the wife of Boso, the count of Provence "...942-c.966." He takes the line back 84 generations from Henry I to Rameses II. Don't think I will type in all that! Chart in pedigree file.
      RC: Constance of Arles, Provence and Toulouse; born c986.
      K: Constance de Provence, d'Arles and Toulouse. Roots: Constance of Provence (variously styled of Arles and of Toulouse), third wife of Robert. Married 998. (Others say 1001/2).
      AIS: Constance of Provence-Arles.
      Descents: Constance of Provence.
    • Name Suffix: [QUEEN OF FRANCE
      Ancestral File Number: 9GDD-JW

      Name Suffix: [QUEEN OF FRANCE
      Ancestral File Number: 9GDD-JW
    • GIVN Constance de
      SURN Toulouse
      NSFX Queen Of France
      AFN 9G84-SR
      _PRIMARY Y
      DATE 9 SEP 2000
      TIME 13:15:34
    • GIVN Bertha Countess
      SURN von Flandern
      AFN 9HMM-GB
      DATE 9 SEP 2000
      TIME 13:15:38
    • GIVN Constance de
      SURN Toulouse
      NSFX Queen Of France
      AFN 9G84-SR
      _PRIMARY Y
      DATE 9 SEP 2000
      TIME 13:15:34
    • Name Prefix: Queen Of France Name Suffix: Of Arles
    • [geofrcornwallA.FTW]
      Bertha was the cousin of Robert II. She bore no heirs, and they separate d in 1001.[johnpanagentA.FTW]
      Bertha was the cousin of Robert II. She bore no heirs, and they separate d in 1001.
    • Constance d'Arles was the daughter of William d'Arles, Comte de Provence and Arsinde d'Anjou .1 She was born circa 973. She married Robert II, Roi de France, son of Hugues de Paris, Roi de France and Adelaide de Poitou , in 1003. She was also reported to have been married circa 1000. She died on 25 July 1032. She was also known as Constance Taillefer.
      Children of Constance d'Arles and Robert II, Roi de France:
      Hugues III, Roi de France b. 1007, d. c 1025 Henri I, Roi de France+ b. Apr 1008, d. 4 Aug 1060 Adela de France, Princesse de France + b. 1009, d. 8 Jan 1079 Robert I de Bourgogne, Duc de Bourgogne + b. c 1011, d. 21 Mar 1076
      Citations
      [S16 ] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
    • Constance d'Arles (F) b. circa 973, d. 25 July 1032, #103099d. 25 Jul 1032|p10310.htm#i103099|William d\\'Arles, Comte de Provence|b. c 947d. Sep 1037|p11358.htm#i113577|Arsinde d\\'Anjou||p820.htm#i8192|Raimond I. Taillefer, Comte de Toulouse|d. c 960|p398.htm#i3976|Gersende (?)||p398.htm#i3977|Fulk I. d\\'Anjou, Comte d\\'Anjou|d. 960|p510.htm#i5091|Gerberge de Tours|b. b 944|p510.htm#i5092|');"Pedigree Last Edited=28 Oct 2002
      Constance d'Arles was the daughter of William d'Arles, Comte de Provence and Arsinde d'Anjou .1 She was born circa 973. She married Robert II, Roi de France, son of Hugues de Paris, Roi de France and Adelaide de Poitou , in 1003. She was also reported to have been married circa 1000. She died on 25 July 1032. She was also known as Constance Taillefer.
      Children of Constance d'Arles and Robert II, Roi de France:
      Hugues III, Roi de France b. 1007, d. c 1025 Henri I, Roi de France+ b. Apr 1008, d. 4 Aug 1060 Adela de France, Princesse de France + b. 1009, d. 8 Jan 1079 Robert I de Bourgogne, Duc de Bourgogne + b. c 1011, d. 21 Mar 1076
      Citations
      [S16 ] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
    • Basic Life Information

      Also known as Constance of Arles. Weis calls her Constance of Provence, has her born abt 986. He and the others agree on her death 25 July 1032, however.

      Constance of Arles

      Constance of Arles (973 - July 25, 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and great-grandson of Charles-Constantine; and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife. The marriage was stormy; the family of Robert's second queen, Bertha, opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with the Cathars) in 1022, the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.
      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      Marriage and Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:
      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-September 17, 1025)
      Henri (May 4, 1008-August 4, 1060)
      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-June 5, 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-March 21, 1076)
      Eudes (1013-1056)
      Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son, Henri, and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons, and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy, but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Death

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_of_Arles>
    • Constance of Arles
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

      Constance of Arles (973 - July 25, 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of Count Guilhem II of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, and the sister of Count Guilhem III of Provence.

      In 1003 she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife. The marriage was stormy; the family of Robert's second queen, Bertha, opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with the Cathars) in 1022, the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      "At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand."
      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      Constance and Robert had seven children:

      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-September 17, 1025)
      Henri (May 4, 1008-August 4, 1060)
      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-June 5, 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-March 21, 1076)
      Eudes (1013-1056)
      Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin
      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son, Henri, and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons, and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy, but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      [edit]
      Sources
      Jessee, W. Scott. A missing Capetian princess: Advisa, daughter of King Robert II of France (Medieval Prosopography), 1990
      Nolan, Kathleen D. Capetian Women, 2003.
      Moore, R.I. The Birth of Popular Heresy, 1975.
    • [s2.FTW]

      Source: Church of JC of the LDS "Ancestral File" CD-Rom database, ver 4.17.

      There is an identity confusion between Constance of Arles and Constance of Toulouse. One is daughter of William III Taillefer Count of Toulouse, the other the daughter of William Count of Provence and Arles. The wives of these two men were sisters: Arsinde (Blanche) d'Anjou and Adelaide (Blanca) d'Anjou.Source: Church of JC of the LDS "Ancestral File" CD-Rom database, ver 4.17.

      There is an identity confusion between Constance of Arles and Constance of Toulouse. One is daughter of William III Taillefer Count of Toulouse, the other the daughter of William Count of Provence and Arles. The wives of these two men were sisters: Arsinde (Blanche) d'Anjou and Adelaide (Blanca) d'Anjou.
    • Basic Life Information

      Also known as Constance of Arles. Weis calls her Constance of Provence, has her born abt 986. He and the others agree on her death 25 July 1032, however.

      Constance of Arles

      Constance of Arles (973 - July 25, 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and great-grandson of Charles-Constantine; and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife. The marriage was stormy; the family of Robert's second queen, Bertha, opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with the Cathars) in 1022, the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.
      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      Marriage and Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:
      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-September 17, 1025)
      Henri (May 4, 1008-August 4, 1060)
      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-June 5, 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-March 21, 1076)
      Eudes (1013-1056)
      Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son, Henri, and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons, and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy, but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Death

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_of_Arles>
    • Basic Life Information

      Also known as Constance of Arles. Weis calls her Constance of Provence, has her born abt 986. He and the others agree on her death 25 July 1032, however.

      Constance of Arles

      Constance of Arles (973 - July 25, 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and great-grandson of Charles-Constantine; and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife. The marriage was stormy; the family of Robert's second queen, Bertha, opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with the Cathars) in 1022, the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.
      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      Marriage and Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:
      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-September 17, 1025)
      Henri (May 4, 1008-August 4, 1060)
      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-June 5, 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-March 21, 1076)
      Eudes (1013-1056)
      Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son, Henri, and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons, and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy, but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Death

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_of_Arles>
    • Constance of Arles (also known as Constance of Provence) (986 - July 25, 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife, Bertha of Burgundy. The marriage was stormy; Bertha's family opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with a heretical sect of canons, nuns, and clergy in 1022[1]), the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.
      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      Constance and Robert had seven children:

      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-September 17, 1025)
      Henri (May 4, 1008-August 4, 1060)
      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-June 5, 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-March 21, 1076)
      Eudes (1013-1056)
      Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin
      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarrelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, bishop of Chartres wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son Henri and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      Preceded by
      Bertha of Burgundy Queen of France
      1001 – 1031 Succeeded by
      Matilda of Frisia


      [edit] Notes
      ^ 1
      "The heresy was sui generis, probably an amalgam of neoplatonic speculation and of inferences made from the search, familiar to biblical scholars of the time, for an inner meaning beneath the literal surface of the text of Scripture 'written on animal skins.' The radical nature of the denials of the adherents of the doctrines of incarnation and resurrection, have led some historians to argue that the heresy was imported, to some degree ready-made, and that it represents a fragmentary influence from the developed heretical tradition of the movement of the Bogomils, then spreading from its cradle-land in Bulgaria into other parts ... But the absence of any external evidence of Bogomil missionizing at this time and a wider realization of the number of factors in Western society which fostered dissisence in the eleventh century ... have caused the theory to lose support. What seems most likely is that the heresy was intellectual in origin and a facet of the reawakening of learning in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries." Malcolm Lambert, Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1991) 16 - 17.

      [edit] Sources
      Jessee, W. Scott. A missing Capetian princess: Advisa, daughter of King Robert II of France (Medieval Prosopography), 1990
      Nolan, Kathleen D. Capetian Women, 2003.
      Moore, R.I. The Birth of Popular Heresy, 1975.
      Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 53-21, 101-21, 107-20, 108-21, 128-21, 141-21, 141A-21, 185-2.
      Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation, 1991, 9 - 17.
    • Weis, p. 57
    • Constance d'Arles (F)
      b. circa 973, d. 25 July 1032

           Constance d'Arles was born circa 973. She was the daughter of Guillaume III Taillefer, Comte de Provence and Adelaide d'Anjou.1 She married Robert II, Roi de France, son of Hugues de Paris, Roi de France and Adelaide de Poitou, in 1003. She was also reported to have been married circa 1000. She died on 25 July 1032.
           Constance d'Arles was also known as Constance de Taillefer.2

      Children of Constance d'Arles and Robert II, Roi de France
      Hugues III, Roi de France b. 1007, d. c 1025
      Henri I, Roi de France+ b. Apr 1008, d. 4 Aug 10602
      Adela de France, Princesse de France+ b. 1009, d. 8 Jan 1079
      Robert I de Bourgogne, Duc de Bourgogne+ b. c 1011, d. 21 Mar 1076
      Citations
      1. [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
      2. [S45] Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, volume I (1941; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), page 63. Hereinafter cited as Pedigrees of Emperor Charlemagne, I.
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      BIRT SOUR COMYN4.TAF (Compuserve Roots) CONT COMYNI.GED (Compuserve) ABT 986 (2nd listing)

      Possibly not the mother of children other than Adela - Americans of Royal Descent, p. 53;Constance de Toulouse - COMYNI.GED (Compuserve)

      WSHNGT.ASC file (Geo Washington Ahnentafel), Constance de Toulouse

      orig file 'Constance de Toulouse', b. 986

      "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists ...", Line 128

      marr 998

      EDWARD3.DOC d 1037; this file gives her mother as
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      and her mother's parents as
      Foulques II ("The Good") Count of ANJOU (909-958) and Gerberge Du MAINE (913-952)
    • Constance var grevinne av Provence.
    • Robert married third (second ?), in 1001, Constance of Arles (973-Jul y 25, 1034). She was styled by Helgard, her husbands biographer as 'u nberable'. Another source indicates that she was a 'Shrew'. She was the daughter of a certain Count William, she was an intriguing and amb itious woman, who made life miserable for her husband by encouraging h er sons to revolt against their father. She was the mother of his chil dren. When her son Henry ascended to the throne in 1027, she favored her younger son Robert and quickly moved in alliance with Eudes (Odo) II de Blois, to remove Henry in favor of her son Robert who was ultima tely pacified by being give the duchy of Burgundy which stayed in his family well into the 1300's. During the infighting over the successi0 on, she often acted to provoke and unhold Henry's brothers against him .
    • Robert married second ca. 996, 2) Bertha, Princess of Burgundy (952-10 35). Widow of Count Eudes 'Odo' de Blois. At the time of her marriag e to Robert, she is reported to have been the mother of five children . Because she was Robert's cousin, Pope Gregory V would not sanction the marriage and Robert was excommunicated. However, after long negot iations with the new Pope Silvester II the marriage was annulled.
    • GIVN Constance de
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    • Basic Life Information

      Also known as Constance of Arles. Weis calls her Constance of Provence, has her born abt 986. He and the others agree on her death 25 July 1032, however.

      Constance of Arles

      Constance of Arles (973 - July 25, 1034) was the third wife and queen of King Robert II of France. She was the daughter of William I, count of Provence and great-grandson of Charles-Constantine; and Adelais of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou. She was the sister of Count William II of Provence.

      In 1003, she was married to King Robert, after his divorce from his second wife. The marriage was stormy; the family of Robert's second queen, Bertha, opposed her, and Constance was despised for importing her Provençal kinfolk. Robert's friend, Hugh of Beauvais, tried to convince the king to repudiate her in 1007. Constance's response was to have Beauvais murdered by the knights of her kinsman, Fulk Nerra. In 1010 Robert even went to Rome, accompanied by his former wife Bertha, to seek permission to divorce Constance and remarry Bertha. Constance encouraged her sons to revolt against their father, and then favored her younger son, Robert, over her elder son, Henri.

      During the famous trial of Herefast de Crepon (who was alleged to be involved with the Cathars) in 1022, the crowd outside the church in Orleans became so unruly that, according to Moore:

      At the king's command, Queen Constance stood before the doors of the Church, to prevent the common people from killing them inside the Church, and they were expelled from the bosom of the Church. As they were being driven out, the queen struck out the eye of Stephen, who had once been her confessor, with the staff which she carried in her hand.
      The symbolism, or reality, of putting an eye out is used often in medieval accounts to show the ultimate sin of breaking of one's oath, whether it be heresy, or treason to ones lordship, or in this case both. Stephen's eye was put out by the hand of a Queen wielding a staff (royal scepters were usually tipped with a cross) thus symbolically providing justice for the treasoned lord on earth and in heaven.

      Marriage and Children

      Constance and Robert had seven children:
      Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-September 17, 1025)
      Henri (May 4, 1008-August 4, 1060)
      Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-June 5, 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-March 21, 1076)
      Eudes (1013-1056)
      Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin

      At Constance's urging, her eldest son Hugh Magnus was crowned co-king alongside his father in 1017. Hugh Magnus demanded his parents share power with him, and rebelled against his father in 1025. He died suddenly later that year, an exile and a fugitive. Robert and Constance quarelled over which of their surviving sons should inherit the throne; Robert favored their second son Henri, while Constance favored their third son, Robert. Despite his mother's protests, Henry was crowned in 1027. Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, wrote a letter claiming that he was "frightened away" from the consecration of Henry "by the savagery of his mother, who is quite trustworthy when she promises evil."

      Constance encouraged her sons to rebel, and Henri and Robert began attacking and pillaging the towns and castles belonging to their father. Robert attacked Burgundy, the duchy he had been promised but had never received, and Henry seized Dreux. At last King Robert agreed to their demands and peace was made which lasted until the king's death.

      King Robert died in 1031, and soon Constance was at odds with both her elder son, Henri, and her younger son Robert. Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them. Henri fled to Normandy, where he received aid, weapons, and soldiers from his brother Robert. He returned to besiege his mother at Poissy, but Constance escaped to Pontoise. She only surrendered when Henri began the siege of Le Puiset and swore to slaughter all the inhabitants.

      Death

      Constance died in 1034, and was buried beside her husband Robert at Saint-Denis Basilica.

      <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_of_Arles>
    • #Générale#inhumation : St-Denis

      #Générale#dite d'Arles, de Toulouse, 3ʻ femme
      s:ds02.11
    • #Générale##Générale#de Haute-Bourgogne
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      #Générale#Décès : 1010 ou après 1016/1017
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      # Name: Constance DE TAILLEFER 1 2 3 4 5
      # Sex: F
      # Birth: ABT 986 in Tolouse, France 1 2 3 4 5
      # Death: 25 JUL 1032 in Mel;un, France 1 2 3 4 5
      # Christening: AFT 998 Aquitainia - Princess 1 2 3 4 5
      # Burial: St. Denis Abbey 1 2 3 4 5
      # Change Date: 15 JAN 2004 5
      # Change Date: 9 OCT 2001 2 3 4 5
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      OCCU Lady ...
      SOUR Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 236 says CIR 986;
      HAWKINS.GED says 985; CHARLEMG.ZIP (GS) says 983;
      COMYNI.GED ABT 986;BAIL3.GED place only; gendex.com/users/daver/rigney - 974;
      SOUR Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 99, 236;
      PORTU2.TAF (Compuserve); gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001;
      GWALTNEY.ANC (Compuserve) 63505625 says 1033;
      SOUR gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001
      Possibly not the mother of children other than Adela & Henry - NLP; Constance
      de Toulouse - COMYNI.GED (Compuserve), #1890; Constance of Arles, Provence and
      Toulouse - Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart, p. 99; http://misc.trave
      ller.com/genealogy/gedhtml/kmilburn/d0001/g0000081.htm#I2212 says parents
      were William III Taillefer of Toulouse (b. 947, d. 1037) & Arsinde (Blanche)
      de Anjou - NPH
      CONSTANCE DE PROVENCE, daughter of WILLIAM I and ADELAIDE DE ANJOU: Father also show as Hugh Capet of France. Mother as Adelheid - http://gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001/G0000060.html#I1291
      http://members.aol.com/randallpg/g0000001.htm#I2566 says parents are William III Taillifer and Arsinde de Anjou - NPH
      http://www.public.asu.edu/~bgertz/family/d0001/g0000045.htm#I1629 says parents are William III and Arsinda Blanche de Anjou - NPH

      GIVN Constance of Arles and
      SURN TOULOUSE
      NSFX *Princess of Aquitania
      ABBR SOURCE #321
      TITL Langer's "An Encyclopedia of World History" Compiled and Edited byWilliam Langer.
      4th Edition, Completely Revised. 1968.
      AUTH Langer, William
      PUBL Houghton, Mifflin Compan, Boston.
      PAGE Langers chart of Capetian Kings page 242.
      Constance of Arles and Provence, was the 3rd wife of King Robert II ofFrance. She died in 1032, leaving her three sons and a daughter.
      ABBR SOURCE #320
      TITL Webster's Biographical Dictionary
      PUBL G. C. Merriam Co. Springfield, Mass. 1963 Edition
      PAGE Webster's page 1266 Biog. of Robert II.

      Father: William TAILLEFER III b: 955 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
      Mother: Adelaide DE ANJOU b: ABT 942 in of, Anjou, France

      Marriage 1 II ROBERT , King Of France Pious b: 27 MAR 972 in Orleans, Loiret, France

      * Married: 1003 in ,,,France

      Children

      1. Has No Children Hadewide
      2. Has Children Adele DE FRANCE b: ABT 1004 in France (House of Capet VI Gen.)
      3. Has Children Henri I Capet of FRANCE b: ABT MAY 1008 in Reims, France
      4. Has Children Robert I DE BOURGOGNE b: ABT 1011 in Bourgogne, France
      5. Has Children Princess of France CONSTANCE b: 1014 in France

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      Kinship II - A collection of family, friends and U.S. Presidents
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      ID: I575153392
      Name: *Robert , II, King of France CAPET
      Given Name: *Robert , II, King of France
      Surname: Capet
      Sex: M
      Birth: 27 Mar 0972 in France
      Death: 1031
      Change Date: 18 Nov 2002 1 2

      Father: *Hugh , King of France CAPET b: 0938
      Mother: *Adelaide DE POITOU b: 0950

      Marriage 1 Bertha of BURGUNDY b: Abt 0962
      Married: 0996
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      Children
      Almaric MONTFORT b: Abt 0990

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      Married: 1005
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      Children
      *Adela CAPET b: Aft 1005 in of Flanders,Belgium
      *Henry , I, King of France CAPET b: Apr 1008
      Hugh CAPET b: 1007
      *Robert I, Duke of Burgundy CAPET b: 1011

      Sources:
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      Date: 18 Nov 2002

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      WIKIPEDIA
      URL: http://www.wikisearch.net/en/wikipedia/r/ro/robert_ii_of_france.html
      Robert II of France

      Robert II the Pious (French: Robert II le Pieux) (March 27, 972 - July 20, 1031) was King of France from 996 to 1031. A member of the Capetian Dynasty, Robert II was born on March 27, 972 in Orléans, France, the son of King Hugh Capet (938-996) and Adelaide of Aquitaine (952-1004).

      In 987, Robert's father had the nobles crown him as successor at Orléans on December 30th, thereby confirming the house of Capet as rulers of France. After Robert became king he did as his father and crowned his eldest son Hugh Magnus as his successor. But, due to Prince Hugh Magnus's death, another son, Henri, became king.

      Robert, despite marital problems that saw him temporarily excommunicated by Pope Gregory V, was a very devout Roman Catholic, hence the name Robert the Pious. He was very musically inclined and was a composer, a chorister, and a poet, making his palace a place of religious seclusion, where he conducted the matins and vespers in his royal robes. Part of Robert's piety at the time, was because he did not tolerate heretics and harshly punished them.

      The kingdom Robert inherited was not large, and in an effort to increase his power, he vigorously pursued his claim to any of the feudal lands as they became vacant which action usually resulted in war with a counter-claimant. In 1003, his invasion of Burgundy was thwarted and it would not be until 1016 that he was finally able to get the support of the Church and be recognized as the Duke of Burgundy.

      The pious King Robert II made few friends and many enemies, including his own sons. His eldest son Hugh Magnus died suddenly while in rebellion against his father. Robert's surviving sons, Henri and Robert, also turned against their father, in a civil war for power and property. King Robert's army was beaten and he retreated to Beaugency outside Paris.

      He died in the middle of the war with his sons on July 20, 1031 at Melun, France. He was interred with his third wife, Constance of Arles (973-July 25, 1032) in Saint Denis Basilica.

      He was succeeded by his and Constance's second son, Henri I. He was an ancestor to Isabella of France and Isabella of Castile, and so he is the ancestor to the present-day British royal family, including Elizabeth II, Queen of England.

      Robert II married:

      * c. 989, 1) Susanne (Rosala), Princess of Italy (c.945 - January 26, 1003). Widow of Count Arnulf II of Flanders. She was much older than Robert, and the marriage was arranged by his father. Robert divorced her a year later.

      * c. 996, 2) Bertha, Princess of Burgundy (952-1035). Widow of Count Theobald II of Blois. Because she was his cousin, Pope Gregory V would not sanction the marriage and Robert was excommunicated. However, after long negotiations with the new Pope Silvester II the marriage was annulled.

      * In 1001, 3) Constance of Arles (973-July 25, 1034) Daughter of a certain Count William, an intriguing and ambitious woman, who made life miserable for her husband. She was the mother of his children:

      1. Advisa, Countess of Auxerre, (c.1003-after 1063), married Count Renaud I of Nevers
      2. Hugh Magnus, co-king (1007-September 17, 1025)
      3. Henry I of France (May 4, 1008-August 4, 1060)
      4. Adela, Countess of Contenance (1009-June 5, 1063), married (1) Duke Richard III of Normandy (2) Count Baldwin V of Flanders
      5. Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011-March 21, 1076)
      6. Eudes (1013-1056)
      7. Constance (1014-unknown), married Manasses de Dammartin


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    Person ID I6000000002441723192  Ancestors of Donald Ross
    Last Modified 11 Sep 2020 

    Father William II 'the Liberator' de Provence, comte de Provença,   b. Abt 955,   d. Aft 29 Aug 993  (Age ~ 38 years) 
    Mother Adélaïde d'Anjou, Reine de France,   b. Abt 946,   d. 29 May 1026  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Married 984  Wife,,, Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6000000000110345894  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Robert II Capet, "the Pious" king of the Franks,   b. 27 Mar 972,   d. 20 Jul 1031, Château de Melun Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married Abt 1001 
    Address:
    Aquitaine France
    Aquitaine
    France 
    Children 
     1. Henry I of France, King of France,   b. 1009, Muelan, Paris, Orleannais, West Francia (now Ile-de-France, France) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Aug 1060, Palais de Vitry-aux-Loges Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     2. Adela,   b. 5 Mar 1009,   d. 8 Jan 1078  (Age 68 years)
     3. Robert I 'le Vieux' von Burgundy, duc de Bourgogne,   b. 1011,   d. 18 Mar 1076  (Age 65 years)
     4. Hedwige de France, comtesse d'Auxerre,   b. Bef Nov 1005,   d. Aft 5 Jun 1063  (Age > 58 years)
     5. Emergarde d'Auvergne,   b. Abt 990,   d. 1040  (Age ~ 50 years)
     6. Constance de France, heritiere de Dammartin,   b. Abt 1010,   bur. 1042  (Age ~ 31 years)
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2021 
    Family ID F6000000003421275609  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart