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Paternal Family Tree: Welf
In 859 Rudolph I King Burgundy was born to Conrad Welf II Count Auxerre and Waldrada Worms Countess Auxerre.
In 876 [his father] Conrad Welf II Count Auxerre died.
Around 880 [his son] Rudolph "Pious" II King Burgundy II King Italy was born to Rudolph I King Burgundy (age 21).
Assers Life of Alfred 887. 887. 85. Division of the Empire.216 In that same year Charles217, King of the Franks, went the way of all flesh; but Arnolf, his brother's son, six weeks before he died, had expelled him from the kingdom. Immediately after his death five kings were ordained, and the kingdom was split into five parts; but the principal seat of the kingdom justly and deservedly fell to Arnolf, were it not that he had shamefully sinned against his uncle. The other four kings promised fidelity and obedience to Arnolf, as was meet; for none of these four kings was heir to the kingdom on his father's side, as was Arnolf; therefore, though the five kings were ordained immediately upon the death of Charles, yet the Empire remained to Arnolf. Such, then, was the division of that realm; Arnolf received the countries to the east of the river Rhine; Rudolf (age 28) the inner part of the kingdom218; Odo (age 30) the western part; Berengar and Wido, Lombardy, and those countries which are on that side of the mountain. But they did not keep such and so great dominions in peace among themselves, for they twice fought a pitched battle, and often mutually ravaged those kingdoms, and drove one another out of their dominions.
Note 216. From the Chronicle.
Note 217. Charles the Fat (age 47).
Note 218. Burgundy.
In 888 Rudolph I King Burgundy (age 29) succeeded I King Burgundy.
On 25th October 912 Rudolph I King Burgundy (age 53) died. His son [his son] Rudolph (age 32) succeeded II King Burgundy.
[his daughter] Adelaide Welf was born to Rudolph I King Burgundy.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
[his father] Conrad Welf II Count Auxerre and [his mother] Waldrada Worms Countess Auxerre were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Conrad Welf I Count Auxerre and [his grandmother] Adelaide Tours Countess Auxerre.
[his father] Conrad Welf II Count Auxerre and Judith Fruli were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Conrad Welf I Count Auxerre and [his grandmother] Adelaide Tours Countess Auxerre.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Welf
GrandFather: Conrad Welf I Count Auxerre
Great x 2 Grandfather: Isambart "The Saxon" Saxony
Great x 1 Grandmother: Hedwig Saxony
Father: Conrad Welf II Count Auxerre
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Tours
GrandMother: Adelaide Tours Countess Auxerre
Mother: Waldrada Worms Countess Auxerre