Another STEPHANIE!
svbj...@online.no
According to Bugge: "Vaare forfedre", Geoffrey (Gotfred) I of Provence
c. 1004-1060/61 married c. 1040 Stephanie Cognomine Dulcia, dead after
1100. Their daughter was Gerberga of Provence c. 1055-1112 who married
Gilbert of Rouergue d. 1111/12 (according to the same source).
Bugge says this about Stephanie: "Her French name was Etiennette with
the nickname Douce. After becomming a widow after Gotfred, she governed
under her son Bertrand II's minority, and then again after Bertrand's
death about 1093. She made several donations to the Church, founded
monasteries and built the church San Nicolas in Tarascòn".
Is anything known about Stephanie's ancestors?
Svein Arnolf Bjorndal
Todd A. Farmerie
Again we have Vajay to thank for this. First he documents that
Etiennette/Douce of Provence disappears from the historical record in
1063, only to reappear in 1094. He then shows that the start of this
period corresponds to the time when Count Bernard II of Bigorre married
a second wife named Etiennette (his first wife Clemence having died in
1062, and daughter by second marriage Beatrix being born in 1064). He
concludes that this was the same Etiennette. In this he is supported by
donations made by both Etiennette, Countess of Provence and Etiennette,
Countess of Bigorre, to the abbey of St Victor de Marseille.
This special link to Marseille launches Vajay into the second stage of
his argument. Bertrand, Count of Provence, the son of Etiennette, is
named as a relative by several contemporaries who have no known
relationship on his father's side. These are Guillaume Hughes des Baux,
Aicard (of Marseille) archbishop of Arles, Rostaing (de Fos) archbishop
of Aix and his brother Amiel de Fos, seigneur of Esparron. Looking at
the families in the area of Marseille, Vajay then comes up with a single
couple that would unite all of these relationships, and provide a
nomenclatural link to boot. This is the second marriage of Guillaume
II, viscount of Marseille, to Etiennette de Rians.
[Ettiennette de Rians was daughter of Geoffrey de Rians, the paternal
uncle of William des Baux. Aicard, abp of Arles (a position he perhaps
owed to his kinswoman) was son of Geoffrey de Marseille, son of
Guillaume II by his first wife, Accelene des Baux (sister of Geoffrey de
Rians). The Fos brothers were descended in the male line from Pons de
Marseille, paternal uncle of Guillaume II.]
Thus he concludes that Etiennette/Douce, Countess of Provence was
daughter of Guillaume II, viscount of Marseille by Etiennette de Rians.
taf
svbj...@online.no
Todd A. Farmerie wrote:
Does somebody have the ancestors of Guillaume II, Vicount of Marseille and
Etiennette de Rians? Do ES cover these families?
sab