Renaud III OF BURGUNDY

See also

Renaud OF BURGUNDY's parents: Stephen OF BURGUNDY (1065-1102) and Beatrix OF LORRAINE ( -1117)

Renaud III OF BURGUNDY ( -1148)

Name:	Renaud III OF BURGUNDY ¹
Sex:	Male
Father:	Stephen OF BURGUNDY (1065-1102)
Mother:	Beatrix OF LORRAINE ( -1117)

Individual Events and Attributes

Occupation	frm 1127 to 1148	Count of Burgundy
Death	1148
Group/Caste Membership		Capetian House of Burgundy

Marriage

Spouse	Agatha OF LORRAINE ( -1147)
Children	Beatrix OF BURGUNDY ( -1185)
Marriage	1130 (app)

Individual Note

Renaud III (c. 1093 – 1148), son of Stephen I (Tête-hardi) and Beatrix of Lorraine, was the count of Burgundy between 1127 and 1148. Previously, he had been the count of Mâcon since his father's death in 1102, with his brother, William of Vienne.

He proclaimed independence from the Holy Roman Emperor Lothair III, but was defeated by King Conrad III of Germany and forced to relinquish all his lands east of the Jura. The name of the region Franche-Comté is derived from his title, franc-compte, meaning "free count".

Family

About 1130, he married Agatha of Lorraine (d. April 1147), daughter of Simon I, Duke of Lorraine.

Children of Renaud and Agatha

Beatrice (c.1145 – 15 November 1184) married the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1156

Beatrice became countess of Burgundy on her father's death.

SOURCES:

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Sources

¹	Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 53, 45-26.

²	"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_III,_Count_of_Burgundy.