Family of Guigues II + and Petronille + of ANNONAY

Husband:	Guigues II + (1025-1079)
Wife:	Petronille + of ANNONAY (1025-1070)
Children:	Guigues V + (1068-1133)

Husband: Guigues II +

Name:	Guigues II +
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	The Fat
Father:	Guigues I + of VIEUX (1001-1070)
Mother:	Adelaide + of BEAUJEAU (1001-1034)
Birth	1025	Albon, Rhones-Alpes, France
Occupation		Count of Albon
Death	1079 (age 53-54)

Wife: Petronille + of ANNONAY

Child 1: Guigues V +

Name:	Guigues V +
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Matilda + of SICILY (1070-1144)
Birth	1068	Grenoble, Isere, France
Occupation		Count of Albon
Title		Count of Albon
Death	21 Dec 1133 (age 64-65)	Grenoble, Isere, France

Note on Husband: Guigues II +

The Counts of Albon (Comtes d'Albon) were minor French nobles in south-eastern France, in the Rhône Alps region.

 

Under Guigues IV, Count of Albon, who was nicknamed le Dauphin or the Dolphin from the dolphin on his coat of arms, they took a new hereditary title, Dauphin of Viennois (Dauphin de Viennois), named for the region around Vienne, where they ruled. The collective lands ruled by the Dauphins of Viennois became known as the Dauphiny (le Dauphiné).

 

The titles and lands, many of which were within the legal boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire rather than of the kingdom of France, were all sold to King Philip VI of France in 1349, on condition that the heir to the French crown always be named Dauphin, and be personal holder of the lands and titles. By condition of the Emperor, the Dauphiny could never be united to France. When the King of France had no son, he would personally rule the Dauphiny separately, as Dauphin.

 

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Guigues le Vieux comtes d'Albon dit Guigues III (between 1050 and 1060 – 1133) was the first Count of Albon from 1079, when the County of Vienne, then in the possession of the Archdiocese of Vienne, was divided between him and Humbert I of Savoy, who received Maurienne.

 

He was the son of Guigues II of Albon and Adelaide of Royans. His ancestors were lords of the castle of Albon and counts (comites) in the Grésivaudan and Briançonnais.

 

Guigues's regin was marked by continual strife with Hugh of Châteauneuf, Bishop of Grenoble, over the suzerainty of certain church lands in the Grésivaudan. Hugh accused the count of usurping the lands with the help of the Bishop Mallem and invented fantastic stories to back up his claim to the disputed estates. Finally an accord was signed between Guigues and the bishop in 1099. Guigues returned the ecclesiastic land, while Hugh recognised the authority of the count in the vicinity of Grenoble.

 

In 1095, Guigues contracted an exemplary marriage with the high-born Matilda, long thought to be the daughter of Edgar the Aetheling, but now thought more likely to have been a daughter of Roger I of Sicily, the Great Count, and his third wife, Adelaide del Vasto. Patrick Deret, however, alleges, on the basis of possible birth dates, that her mother must have been Roger's second wife, Eremburga of Mortain.

 

In 1129, Guigues benefited further from the division of the Viennois between himself and Amadeus III of Savoy. Four years later, he died, leaving as his heir Guigues IV and a second son, Humbert, Archbishop of Vienne. He had three daughters:

 

Garsenda, married William III of Forcalquier

Matilda, married Amadeus III of Savoy in 1135

Beatrice (born c. 1100), married Josserand de Die (c. 1095 – c. 1147)