Settipani's "La prehistoire des Capetiens". Weis' "Ancestral Roots . . ." (141B:17). Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (343:39), citing ES I:57, Calls him Boso II, Count of Vienne, King of Lower Burgundy. Boso was Count of Vienne and governor of Burgundy under the Carolingians. His wife, ERMENGARDE, felt that as she was the daughter of an emperor, she ought to be married to more than a mere count. Also, she considered herself as sovereign of both Italy and Burgundy in her own right. She persuaded Pope John VIII to crown Boso king of Provence. The years following the death of his father-in-law, KING LOUIS II of Italy without a male heir were a period of civil war between several rival claimants to the throne. From 875 to 877, CHARLES THE BALD, King
of France, was nominally also King of Italy. Boso was his main representative. Boso was an unsuccessful claimant in 879.

FRANKISH KINGDOM OF BURGUNDY
AD 880 -1032
The continual fracturing of the Frankish Empire lead to an independent Burgundian kingdom, as the previous Burgundian territory was split in two, the second half forming a duchy. Boso was the ruler of the Kingdom of Burgundy, and his brother, Richard, was the first Duke of the other half of Burgundy.