| Shared note | William I (1020 – 12 November 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, Duke 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 many 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 of Burgundy, married (1090) Humbert II of Savoy and then Renier I of Montferrat
* Adelaide
* Eudes
* Hugh III, Archbishop of Besançon
* Clementia married Robert II, Count of Flanders and was Regent, during his absence
* Stephanie married Lambert, Prince de Royans (d.1119)
* Ermentrude, married (1065) Theodoric I
* (perhaps) Bertha wife of Alphonso VI of Castile |
