'William I' (1020 – 1087), called 'the Great' (''le Grand'' or ''Tête Hardie'', "the Rash") was Count of Burgundy and Mâcon from 1057 to 1087. He was a son of Renaud I and Adelaide, daughter of Richard II of Normandy. William was the father of several notable children, including Pope Callistus II.
In 1057, he succeeded his father and reigned over a territory larger than that of the Franche-Comté itself. In 1087, he died in Besançon and was buried there in the cathedral of St John.
William married a woman named Stephanie.^[1]
They had several children:

★ Renaud II, William's successor, died on First Crusade

★ Stephen I, successor to Renaud II, Stephen died on the Crusade of 1101

★ Raymond, married (1090) Urraca, the reigning queen of Castile

★ Guy of Vienne, elected pope, in 1119 at the Abbey of Cluny. as Calixtus II

★ Sybilla (or Maud), married (1080) Eudes I of Burgundy

★ Gisela, married (1090) Humbert II of Savoy and then Renier I of Montferrat

★ Adelaide

★ Bertha

★ Eudes

★ Hugh III, Archbishop of Besançon

★ Clemence married Robert II, Count of Flanders and was Regent, during his absence

★ Stephanie

★ Ermentrude, married (1065) Thierry I of Montbéliard

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1. She was identified as the daughter of Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine in an article by Szabolcs de Vajay in ''Annales de Bourgogne'', XXXII:247-267 (Oct-Dec 1960), but the author subsequently made an unqualified retraction of this claim in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in ''Prosopographica et Genealogica'', vol. 3: ''Onomastioque et Parenté dans l'Occident medieval,'' K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2-6.

References

★ Portail sur Histoire Bourgogne et Histoire Franche-Comté, Gilles Maillet.

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