Boso, Count of Arles

ARLES

1. BOSO, Count of Arles-

b.c.720 Arles, Bouches du Rhone

Issue-

  • 2I. BOSO- b.c.748, d.c.823

    Ref:

    Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten- Detlev Schwennicke, Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, 1978- Vol. II, p. 186

    2I. BOSO, Count of Arles (BOSO 1)

    b.c.748
    d.c.823 Arles, Bouches du Rhone

    Issue-

  • 3III. BOSO- b.c.773, d.c.854

    Ref:

    Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten- Detlev Schwennicke, Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, 1978- Vol. II, p. 186

    3I. BOSO, "the Old", Count of Arles (BOSO 1, BOSO 2)

    b.c.773
    d. 854 Arles, Bouches du Rhone

    Issue-

  • I. Richilde- b.c.823, m. Bivin of Gorze, d.c.883
  • II. Boso- Count of Arles
  • 4II. HERBERT- b.c.825, d.c.864
  • III. Teutberga- m. Lothair II, King of Lotharingia

    Ref:

    Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten- Detlev Schwennicke, Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, 1978- Vol. II, p. 186
    La Préhistoire des Capétiens, Premiere Partie: Mérovigiens, Carolingiens et Robertiens- Christian Settipani
    The Bosonids or Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age- Constance B. Bouchard, French Historical Studies Vol. 15, No. 3 (Spring 1988)- pp. 407-431

    4II. HERBERT (BOSO 1, BOSO 2, BOSO 3)

    b.c.825 Arles, Bouches du Rhone
    d.c.864 Orbe, Vaud, Switzerland

    Herbert was the lay abbot of the Abbey of St. Maurice in Valais. His sister Teutberga married Lothair II who wanted to obtain a divorce from Teutberga as he was in love with Waldrada and wanted to put Teutberga away. Herbert took up arms on her behalf.

    Issue-

  • 5I. THEOBALD- b.c.855, m. BERTHA de LORRAINE (b.c.863, m.2. Adalbert, Margrave of Tuscany (b.c.860, d. Sept. 915 Tuscania, Viterbo, Italia), d. 8 Mar. 925 Arles, Bouches du Rhone), d.c.895

    Ref:

    Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten- Detlev Schwennicke, Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, 1978- Vol. II, p. 186

    5I. THEOBALD, Count of Arles (BOSO 1, BOSO 2, BOSO 3, HERBERT 4)

    b.c.855
    m. BERTHA de LORRAINE (b.c.863, m.2. Adalbert, Margrave of Tuscany (b.c.860, d. Sept. 915 Tuscania, Viterbo, Italia), d. 8 Mar. 925 Arles, Bouches du Rhone)
    d.c.895

    Theobald married Bertha, illegitimate daughter of Lothair, King of Lorraine who was renowned for her beauty and spirit.

    Issue-

  • 6I. TEUTBERGA- b.c.881, m. WARINUS de TROYES (b.c.868 Troyes, Aube, d. 6 Dec. 925 Chaumont en Bassigny, Haute Marne), d. Sept. 948 Troyes, Aube
  • II. Hugh- King of Italy. b.c.883, m. Wandelmode, d. 10 Apr. 947 Tuscania, Viterbo, Italia
  • 7III. BOSO- Count of Arles. b.c.885, m. WILLA of BURGUNDY, d.c.936 Tuscania, Viterbo, Italia

    Ref:

    Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700- Frederick Lewis Weis, 7th ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1992- pp. 145-17
    Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten- Detlev Schwennicke, Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, 1978- Vol. II, p. 186; III, p. 662B
    Genealogical Research in Europe- George Andrews Moriarty, NEHGR- Vol. 110, No. 1 (Jan 1956) - p. 41
    The Hauteville Ancestry- Charles H. Evans, TAG, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Jan. 1976)- p. 26

    7I. BOSO (BOSO 1, BOSO 2, BOSO 3, HERBERT 4, THEOBALD 5)

    m. WILLA di BORGOGNA

    Boso was comte d'Avignon et Vaisin 911-931 and comte d'Arles 926-931 He was installed by his brother as the Marchese di Toscana in 931 and he rebelled against his brother in 936 was captured and deposed. Willa was sent to Burgundy after Boso was deposed in 936 and because of this she is thought to be the daughter of Rudolf I, King of Burgundy and his wife Willa, however, no other evidence to link her to Burgundy is available.

    Issue-

  • I. Berta- m.1. c.928, Boso, Comte of Upper Burgundy (d. Sept. 935, bur. église de l'abbaye de Saint-Rémi) , 2. Raymond I, Comte de Rouergue (killed 962), d. after 18 Aug. 965
  • 8II. WILLA- m. BERENGAR d'IVREA (b.c.900, d. 6 Aug. 966)
  • III. Richilde-
  • IV. Gisela-

    Ref:

    Recherches sur les origines de deux princesses du IX siècle: la reine Guille de Bourgogne et l'impératice Engelberge- Jean Mathieu in "Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident medieval" ("Prosopographica et Genealogica"), Katherine Keats-Rohan and Christian Settipani, eds.- Vol. III (2000), p. 173
    Liudprandi Antapodosis- IV.10 in "Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptorum"- Vol. III, pp. 313, 317-9, 336

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