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The Rest of the Story: The Ancestors of Sarah May Paddock Otstott
| The Rest of the Story: The Ancestors of Sarah May Paddock Otstott |
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William I OF GENEVA (1130-1195)
| Name: | William I OF GENEVA 1,2 |
| Sex: | Male |
| Father: | Amadeus I OF GENEVA (1100-1178) |
| Mother: | Matilda OF CUISEAU ( -bef1137) |
Individual Events and Attributes
| Birth | 1130 | |
| Occupation | frm 1178 to 1195 (age 47-65) | Count of Geneva |
| Marriage Count | 3 | |
| Child Count | 4 | |
| Death | 25 Jul 1195 (age 64-65) | the Château de Novel in Annecy |
| Burial | Monastery of Saint Catherine-sur-Annecy |
Marriage
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| Tomb of Margaret of Geneva | ||
| Spouse | Beatrix DE FAUCIGNY ( - ) | |
| Children | Margaret (Beatrix) OF GENEVA (1180?-1257) | |
Individual Note
William I of Geneva (ca. 1132 – 25 July 1195) was Count of Geneva from 1178 to 1195, in succession to his father, Count Amadeus I of Geneva. William's mother was Amadeus' wife, Matilda de Cuiseaux.
He died at the Château de Novel in Annecy.
His first wife was Marguerite Beatrice de Faucigny, by whom he had three children:
Humbert of Geneva
Marguerite of Geneva, wife of Thomas I of Savoy[1]
William II of Geneva
His second wife was Agnes of Savoy, daughter of Amadeus III of Savoy, by whom he had one daughter:
Beatrice of Geneva
His third marriage, to Beatrice de Vaupergue, was childless.
NOTES:
1 In 1195 William was escorting his daughter Marguerite to France for her intended wedding to King Philip II. Thomas of Savoy ambushed the party, carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some eight sons and six daughters.3
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 130, 133-25. |
| 2 | "Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dodson". |
| 3 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_Geneva. |