Willa
WillaDate of birth: Unknown.
Place of birth: Unknown
(of Burgundian origin).
["... Boso ...,
uxorem eius, quasi profanum et sceleris totius auctricem,
turpiter de regno Italico precepit expelli, atque in Burgundiam,
de qua oriunda fuerat, duci.",
Liudprand, Antapodosis, iv, 12, Dümmler (1877),
84]
Date of death: Unknown.
Place of
death: Unknown.
Father: Unknown.
Mother: Unknown.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Boso, d.
after 936, margrave of Tuscany.
["... Willa uxore sua Boso Tusciae provinciae
marchio, ..." Liudprand, Antapodosis, iv, 8,
Dümmler (1877), 82; "... regis Hugonis frater Boso,
Willa uxore sua cupidissima ..." ibid., iv, 11, p. 84]
Children:
See the page of Boso for the details.
Bertha, d. after 18 August 965;
m. (1) Boso, d. 935, count (brother
of Raoul, king of France);
m. (2) Raymond, d. 961×5, count of Rouergue,
margrave of Septimania, duke of Aquitaine.
Willa, d. after 966, m. before 936, Berengar II, d. 4 August 966, king of Italy, 950-961.
Richilda.
Gisela.
Conjectured father: Rudolf I, king of Burgundy.
Conjectured mother: Willa.
This origin of Willa has been conjectured on numerous
occasions [e.g., Duchesne (1619), 145; Poupardin (1901), 211; Manteyer (1908), 122; Mathieu (2000), 173, 183].
The main reasons for suggesting this would be her Burgundian
origin (see above) and onomastics, the uncommon name Willa also
being the probable name of Rudolf's wife. Although plausible
enough, this conjecture lacks proof.
Duchesne (1619) = André Duchesne (du Chesne), Histoire des roys, ducs, et comtes de Bourgogne et d'Arles (Paris, 1619).
Dümmler (1877) = Ernst Dümmler, ed., Liudprandi episcopi Cremonensis opera omnia (MGH SRG, Hannover, 1877).
Manteyer (1908) = Georges de Manteyer, La Provence du premier au douzième siècle (Paris, 1908).
Mathieu (2000) = Jean-Noël Mathieu, "Recherches sur les origines de deux princesses du IXe s.: la reine Guille de Bourgogne et l'impératrice Engelberge", in Keats-Rohan & Settipani, eds., Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval (Oxford, 2000), 171-184.
Poupardin (1901) = René Poupardin, Le royaume de Provence sous les Carolingiens (Paris, 1901).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 20 September 2008.