Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameOtto Wilhelm DE MACON Count Of Macon, 29G Grandfather
FatherAdalbert Of Ivrea King Of Italy (<947-~972)
MotherGerberga Of Chalon DE MACON Countess Of Burgundy (-968)
Spouses
1Ermentrude DE ROUCY, 29G Grandmother
FatherRenaud DE ROUCY Count Of Reims (~931-973)
MotherAlberade Of Lorraine (~930-973)
Web Notes notes for Otto Wilhelm DE MACON Count Of Macon
Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (94:33) calls him King of Lombardy and Count of Burgundy and Macon. This is also the source for his second marriage to ADELAIDE/BLANCHE OF ANJOU.
Quoting from Christopher Cope's : "The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy" : "CONRAD was succeeded as King of Burgundy in 993 by his son Rudolph III. In 1006 the EMPEROR HENRY II siezed Basel and extracted a promise from Rudolph to name him as his heir. Rudolph was childless and HENRY was his oldest nephew; however the prospect was anathema in Burgundy to high and low alike, and when Otto William, the most powerful lord in the kingdom, raised the standard of revolt in 1016, many rallied to him; few Burgundians wished to be ruled by the alien Germans.
But Otto William was more than a folk hero, he was a man of high ambition. A contemporary wrote of him, 'Though nominally a vassal of the King of Burgundy, Otto William was resolved to be sovereign master of his own territories.' "Otto Willam whose mother was Burgundian, was the son and grandson of the last 'national' kings of Italy, now ousted by the OTTONIAN EMPERORS.
He was initially Count of Macon and Count of Burgundy, which means he held the lands north and west of the Jura known today as Franche Compte. In 1002 he was chosen by the bishops and barons of the area to succeed his stepfather [Henry I Capet] as Duke of Burgundy, but he was expelled from the Duchy after a long conflict by the KING OF FRANCE, ROBERT CAPET. The latter's younger son, also ROBERT, became Duke of Burgundy, founding the junior branch of the Capetian dynasty. . . . "
"Unhappily Otto William divided his efforts between his ambitions in Italy and in Burgundy and was defeated in both - perhaps the first case of a Burgundian prince failing in Burgundy because of involvement in Italy. But he and his allies continued to defy Rudolph and to challenge HENRY's claims to the succession. Their efforts seemed rewarded when HENRY died in 1024, for his successor, CONRAD, THE FIRST FRANCONIAN EMPEROR, had only a very distant claim of blood to the Burgundian throne. However, he had married one of Rudolph's nieces and in 1026 Otto William died, and so Rudolph set aside the rights of his [i.e. Rudolph's) nephew and heir ODO OF BLOIS [aka EUDES II, COUNT OF BLOIS AND CHAMPAIGN] and on his death-bed in 1032 he sent Burgundy's regalia to CONRAD."
Quoting from Christopher Cope's : "The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy" : "CONRAD was succeeded as King of Burgundy in 993 by his son Rudolph III. In 1006 the EMPEROR HENRY II siezed Basel and extracted a promise from Rudolph to name him as his heir. Rudolph was childless and HENRY was his oldest nephew; however the prospect was anathema in Burgundy to high and low alike, and when Otto William, the most powerful lord in the kingdom, raised the standard of revolt in 1016, many rallied to him; few Burgundians wished to be ruled by the alien Germans.
But Otto William was more than a folk hero, he was a man of high ambition. A contemporary wrote of him, 'Though nominally a vassal of the King of Burgundy, Otto William was resolved to be sovereign master of his own territories.' "Otto Willam whose mother was Burgundian, was the son and grandson of the last 'national' kings of Italy, now ousted by the OTTONIAN EMPERORS.
He was initially Count of Macon and Count of Burgundy, which means he held the lands north and west of the Jura known today as Franche Compte. In 1002 he was chosen by the bishops and barons of the area to succeed his stepfather [Henry I Capet] as Duke of Burgundy, but he was expelled from the Duchy after a long conflict by the KING OF FRANCE, ROBERT CAPET. The latter's younger son, also ROBERT, became Duke of Burgundy, founding the junior branch of the Capetian dynasty. . . . "
"Unhappily Otto William divided his efforts between his ambitions in Italy and in Burgundy and was defeated in both - perhaps the first case of a Burgundian prince failing in Burgundy because of involvement in Italy. But he and his allies continued to defy Rudolph and to challenge HENRY's claims to the succession. Their efforts seemed rewarded when HENRY died in 1024, for his successor, CONRAD, THE FIRST FRANCONIAN EMPEROR, had only a very distant claim of blood to the Burgundian throne. However, he had married one of Rudolph's nieces and in 1026 Otto William died, and so Rudolph set aside the rights of his [i.e. Rudolph's) nephew and heir ODO OF BLOIS [aka EUDES II, COUNT OF BLOIS AND CHAMPAIGN] and on his death-bed in 1032 he sent Burgundy's regalia to CONRAD."