House of Burgundy

the Kingdom of Burgundy

Since the conquest of the Kingdom of the Burgundians by the Franks in 534, its territory had been ruled within the Frankish and Carolingian Empire. In 843, the three surviving sons of Emperor Louis the Pious, who had died in 840, signed the Treaty of Verdun which partitioned the Carolingian Empire among them: the former Burgundian kingdom became part of Middle Francia, which was allotted to Emperor Lothair I, with the exception of the later Duchy of Burgundy—the present-day Bourgogne—which went to Charles the Bald, king of West Francia. King Louis the German received East Francia, comprising the territory east of the Rhine River.

Shortly before his death in 855, Lothair I in turn divided his realm among his three sons in accordance with the Treaty of Prüm. His Burgundian heritage would pass to his younger son Charles of Provence (845–863). Then, in 869, Lothair I's son, Lothair II, died without legitimate children, and in 870 his uncle Charles the Bald and Louis the German by the 870 Treaty of Meerssen partitioned his territory: Upper Burgundy went to Louis the German, while the rest went to Charles the Bald. By 875, all sons of Lothair I had died without heirs and the other Burgundian territories were held by Charles the Bald. In the confusion after the death of Charles’ son Louis the Stammerer in 879, the West Frankish count Boso of Provence established the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy at Arles. In 888, upon the death of the Emperor Charles the Fat, son of Louis the German, Rudolph I of Burgundy, founded the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy. In 933, with the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, Lower and Upper Burgundy were re-united under King Rudolph II as the Kingdom of Arles.

Otto-William became the progenitor of the comital Anscarid dynasty, or the House of Ivrea, a collateral branch of the Bosonid dukes of Burgundy, descending from Hugh the Black, a tenth-century brother of Duke Rudolph, and from Hugh’s brother-in-law Gilbert. The Anscarid dynasty rose to prominence in Italy in the tenth century, even briefly holding the Italian throne. The founder of the family's fortunes was a petty Burgundian count named Anscar, who, with the support of his powerful brother, the archbishop of Rheims Fulk the Venerable, brought Guy III of Spoleto to Langres to be crowned King of France in 887. Duke Alberic I of Spoleto, a page to Guy III of Spoleto, was the first husband of Marozia. Their plot failing, Anscar accompanied Guy back to Italy to seek that vacant throne and, in gratefulness to Anscar, Guy created the March of Ivrea to bestow on his Burgundian faithful.

Anscar's descendants held the march until 1030. Perhaps the most illustrious scion of the house was his grandson Berengar II of Italy, the first of three Anscarids to be crowned king of Italy. Berengar seized the throne in 950 after the death of Lothair II. Berengar was a son of Margrave Adalbert I of Ivrea and his wife Gisela of Friuli, daughter of Berengar I of Italy. Berengar II succeeded his father as margrave about 923 and married the niece of King Hugh of Italy, Willa, daughter of the Bosonid margrave Boso of Tuscany and Willa of Burgundy, sister of Rudolph II of Burgundy. Berengar II’s son Adalbert of Italy married Gerberga, by whom he had one child, one child, Otto-William. Gerberga married for a second time, to Henry I, Duke of Burgundy, who adopted adopted Otto-William making him a possible heir of the Duchy of Burgundy.

In 982, Otto-William received the County of Burgundy from his marriage with Ermentrude of Roucy. In 1002, Otto-William, Count of Burgundy, also claimed the Duchy of Burgundy upon the death of his stepfather Duke Henry I. However, the duchy was seized as a reverted fief by King Robert II of France two years later, founding the Capetan House of Burgundy. Robert II of France was the son of Hugh Capet, first king from the House of Capet. After the council of Héry (1015), Robert II of France and his son, Henry I of France, confiscated the duchy, leaving only a small portion around Dijon to Otto-William. Robert II’s other son Robert I, Duke of Burgundy was Duke of Burgundy from 1032 to his death. The Kingdom of Burgundy was incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire in 1033 and from then on was one of the empire's three constituent realms, together with the Kingdom of Germany and the Kingdom of Italy.

The Castilian House of Burgundy, a cadet branch of the House of Ivrea, descended from Raymond of Burgundy, the fourth son of William I, Count of Burgundy, and brother of Pope Callixtus II. Their niece Isabella was the wife of Hugh, Count of Champagne, one of the founding members of the Templars, who consulted with Rashi. Hugh was also a step-brother of Stephen of Blois, the father Henry of Blois, Abbot of Glastonbuy, Bishop of Winchester, and author of the anonymous Grail saga Perlesvaus which celebrated the Templars. Henry of Blois’ brother was Stephen, King of England who was married Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne, daughter of Eustace III, brother of Godfrey of Bouillon and Baldwin I of Jerusalem. Their niece was Marie of France was the wife of Henry I of Champagne, and patroness of Grail author Chrétien de Troyes.

Raymond arrived in the Iberian peninsula probably in 1086 with the army of Odo I, Duke of Burgundy, who besieged the city Tudela, Navarre. In April 1087 the army abandoned the siege and returned home, but Odo, Raymond and Henry I, Count of Portugal, Raymond's cousin and a member of the Capetian House of Burgundy, went west at the court of Alfonso VI king of Castile and León. One of Henry of Burgundy’s paternal aunts was Constance of Burgundy, the wife of Alfonso VI of León and Castile, and one of his grand-uncles was Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, one of the most influential and venerated personalities of his time. Henry’s brother Hugh I (1057 – 1093) became prior of the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny. Henry of Burgundy’s other brother was Odo I, Duke of Burgundy, who sponsored abbey of Molesme, which included Stephen Harding and Bernard of Clairvaux before they went on to found the Cistercian Order. Odo I married Raymond’s sister, Sibylla of Burgundy.

Odo I arranged the marriage of king's first daughter, Urraca, to Raymond in 1087. Two years after Raymond's death, Urraca succeeded her father and became queen of Castile and Leon. Urraca's and Raymond's offspring in the legitimate line ruled the kingdom from 1126 until the death of Peter of Castile in 1369, while their descendants in an illegitimate line, the House of Trastámara, would rule Castile and Aragón until the sixteenth century. Their son Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile was the founder of the Order of Calatrava, and was advised by Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra, relative of Abraham ibn Ezra, student of Abraham Bar Hiyya, influence on temple mysticism of Templars. Alfonso VII married Berenguela, the daughter of Templar Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona.

In 1093, Alfonso VI married an illegitimate daughter Teresa to Henry and gave them the county of Portugal, which evolved to a kingdom. Henry and Teresa’s son, Afonso I of Portugal (1106/1109/1111 – 1185), also called Afonso Henriques, achieved the independence of the County of Portugal, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death. Afonso’s daughter, Urraca of Portugal, married Ferdinand II of Leon, the son of Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile, and the founder of the Order of Santiago. Ferdinand II’s nephew, Alfonso VIII of Castile, who was a patron of the order, married Eleanor of England, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine and sister of Richard Lionheart.

The main branch ruled the County of Burgundy from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries and it was one of their members who first declared himself a count palatine. The greatest of the free counts was Reginald III, Count of Burgundy, who, from 1127, used the title franc-comte as a sign of independence of German or Imperial authority, but was forced to submit to Conrad III. His daughter and heiress, Beatrice, married Frederick Barbarossa and united the Anscarid inheritance with that of the Hohenstaufen. Burgundy was inherited by her son Otto I, who had an Anscarid name. Thus the county was lost for the House of Ivrea, but it came back when Hugh of Chalon married to Adelaide countess of Burgundy, daughter of Beatrice II of Hohenstaufen (Otto I's daughter). However, in 1303 died Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, last male of the main line and the county inherited to the Dampierre family and finally to the Capetian-Valois dukes of Burgundy.


  • Bivin of Gorze

    • Richilde of Provence (second wife) + Charles the Bald

    • Richard, Duke of Burgundy + Adelaide of Auxerre

      • Rudolph of France + Emma of France

      • Hugh the Black

      • Ermengard + Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy

        • Liutgard + Otto, Duke of Burgundy (son of Hugh the Great + Hedwig of Saxony. Succeeded by his brother Henry I, Duke of Burgundy)

        • Adelais of Burgundy + Robert of Vermandois

          • Adele of Meaux + Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou (son of Fulk II of Anjou + Gerberge)

            • Ermengarde of Anjou + Conan I of Rennes (endowed Mont Saint-Michel and final resting place)

              • Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany + Hawise of Normandy (see below)

              • Judith of Brittany + Richard II, Duke of Normandy

                • Robert I, Duke of Normandy + Herleva (see below)

                  • WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR + Maltilda of Flanders (see below)

                • Robert I, Duke of Normandy + unknown

                  • Adelaide of Normandy + Lambert II, Count of Lens

                    • Judith of Lens + Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria

                      • Maud, Countess of Huntingdon + DAVID I OF SCOTLAND (see below)

                      • Stephen of Aumale

                • Richard III of Normandy

                • Alice of Normandy + Reginald I, Count of Burgundy (see below)

                • Eleanor + Count Baldwin IV of Flanders

            • Ermengarde of Anjou + William II of Angoulême

            • Fulk III of Anjou + Hildegarde of Sundgau

              • Ermengarde of Anjou + Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (see above)

                • Fulk IV, Count of Anjou + Bertrade de Montfort

                  • Fulk, King of Jerusalem + Ermengarde, Countess of Maine

                    • Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou + Empress Matilda (see below)

                    • Sibylla of Anjou + Thierry, Count of Flanders (see below)

                  • Fulk, King of Jerusalem + Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem (daughter of BALDWIN II OF JERUSALEM, authorized founding of TEMPLARS + MORPHIA OF ARMENIA, of the SKULL OF SIDON LEGEND)

              • Ermengarde of Anjou + Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (see above)

                • Hildegarde of Burgundy + William VIII of Aquitaine (see below)

    • Boso of Provence + Ermengard of Italy (daughter of Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor, brother of Lothair II)

      • Louis the Blind, Holy Roman Emperor + Anna (daughter of Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor)

        • Charles-Constantine + Thiberge de Troyes

          • Constance + Boso II of Arles

            • Rotbold I of Provence + Emilde of Gévaudan

              • Rotbold II, Count of Provence + Ermengarde of Burgundy (origins unknown)

                • William III of Provence (no issue)

                • Emma + William III Taillefer, Count of Toulouse

                  • Pons, Count of Toulouse + Almodis de La Marche (former wife of Hugh V of Lusignan)

                    • William IV, Count of Toulouse + Emma of Mortain

                      • Philippa, Countess of Toulouse + William IX of Aquitaine (see below)

                    • RAYMOND IV, COUNT OF TOLOUSE (leader of the PRINCES’ CRUSADE) + Matilda + Roger I of Sicily

                    • RAYMOND IV, COUNT OF TOLOUSE + Elvira (d. of Alfonso VI of León of Leon and Castile)

                      • Alfonso Jordan + Faydida of Provence

                        • Raymond V, Count of Toulouse + Constance (see below)

                          • RAYRMOND VI, COUNT OF TOULOUSE (Cathar)

                          • Adelaide of Toulouse + Roger II Trencavel

                            • RAYMOND-ROGER TRENCAVEL (Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Perceval) + Agnes of Montpellier

                        • Faydiva (died childless) + Count Humbert III of Savoy

            • William I of Provence + Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou (daughter of Fulk II of Anjou and Gerberga)

              • Constance of Arles + ROBERT II OF FRANCE (son of Hugh Capet + Adelaide of Aquitaine)

                • Henry I of France + Anne of Kiev

                  • Philip I, King of the Franks + Bertha of Holland

                    • Louis VI of France + Adelaide of Maurienne (see below)

                • Adela of France + Baldwin V, Count of Flanders

                  • Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders + Richilde, Countess of Hainaut

                    • Count Baldwin II of Hainaut + Ida of Louvain

                      • Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut + Yolande (daughter of Count Gerard I of Guelders)

                        • Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut + Alice of Namur (niece of Godfrey I, Count of Namur)

                          • Agnes of Hainault + Ralph I, Lord of Coucy

                            • Yolande de Coucy + Robert II, Count of Dreux (see above)

                              • Robert III, Count of Dreux + Alianor de St. Valéry

                                • Yolande of Dreux + Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (see below)

                              • Peter I, Duke of Brittany + Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany

                                • John I, Duke of Brittany + Blanche (see below)

                                • Yolande de Dreux + Hugh XI of Lusignan

                              • Philippa of Dreux + Henry II, Count of Bar

                              • Eleanor + Robert de Saint-Clair

                          • Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut + Margaret I of Flanders (see below)

                  • Maltilda of Flanders + WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

                    • Robert II, Duke of Normandy

                    • Adela, Countess of Blois + STEPHEN, COUNT OF BLOIS (leader of the Princes’ Crusade)

                    • Henry I of England + Matilda of Scotland (sister of DAVID I OF SCOTLAND, patron of the Templars)

                      • Empress Matilda + Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (see above)

                        • Henry II of England + ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (see below)

                    • Henry I of England + various mistressses

                      • Matilda FitzRoy, Countess of Perche + ROTROU III, COUNT OF PERCHE (PERCEVEL)

                      • Robert Count of Gloucester (commissioned copies of the Historia Regum Brittaniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth which popularized the legend of King Arthur)

                  • Robert I, Count of Flanders + Gertrude of Saxony (great-granddaughter of Hermann Billung)

                    • Robert II, Count of Flanders + Clementia of Burgundy (see below)

                    • Adela of Flanders + Canute IV of Denmark

                      • Charles the Good

                    • Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine + Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine (see below)

                • Robert I, Duke of Burgundy + Helie of Semur

                  • Henry, son of Robert I of Burgundy + unknown

                    • Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (became prior of Abbey of Cluny)

                    • Odo I, Duke of Burgundy + Sibylla of Burgundy (see below)

                    • HENRY, COUNT OF PORTUGAL + Theresa, Countess of Portugal (d. of Alfonso VI of León and Castile + Jimena Muñoz)

                      • AFONSO I OF PORTUGAL (a.k.a. Afonso Henriques) + Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal (see below)

                  • CONSTANCE OF BURGUNDY + Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile (marriage orchestrated via connections at Alfonso’s court with the ABBEY OF CLUNY)

                    • Urraca of Leon and Castile + RAYMOND OF BURGUNDY (see below)

                    • Urraca of Leon and Castile + Alfonso I “the Battler” of Aragon and Navarre

                      • no issue

                • Robert I, Duke of Burgundy + Ermengarde of Anjou (see below)

              • William II of Provence + Gerberga (see below)

      • Guilla of Provence + Rudolph I of Burgundy

        • Rudolph II of Burgundy + Bertha of Swabia

          • Conrad I of Burgundy + Adelaide of Bellay

            • Gisela of Burgundy + Henry II, Duke of Bavaria

              • Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor + Cunigunde of Luxembourg

              • Gisela of Hungary + Stephen I of Hungary

          • Conrad I of Burgundy + Matilda (d. of Louis IV of France + Gerberga of Saxony)

            • Gisela of Burgundy + Henry II, Duke of Bavaria

              • Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor + Cunigunde of Luxembourg

              • Gisela of Hungary + Stephen I of Hungary

            • Bertha of Burgundy + Odo I, Count of Blois (nephew of Adelais of Burgundy)

              • Theobald III, Count of Blois + Gersent of Le Mans

                • STEPHEN, COUNT OF BLOIS (leader of the Princes’ Crusade) + Adela, Countess of Blois (see above)

                  • Theobald II of Champagne + Matilda of Carinthia

                    • Henry I of Champagne + Marie of France

                      • Henry II of Champagne + Isabella I of Jerusalem (see below)

                      • Marie of Champagne + Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (see above)

                      • Theobald III of Champagne + Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne

                        • Theobald IV of Champagne + Margaret of Bourbon (acted as regent with James I of Aragon, son of Cathar defender Peter II of Aragon)

                          • Theobald V, Count of Champagne

                          • Beatrice of Navarre + Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (see above)

                          • Henry I of Navarre + Blanche of Artois (see below)

                          • Blanche + John I, Duke of Brittany (see above)

                            • John II, Duke of Brittany + Beatrice of England (see above)

                    • Adela of Champagne + Louis VII of France (see above. Also married Eleanor of Aquitaine)

                    • Marie of Champagne + Odo II, Duke of Burgundy (see above)

                      • Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy + Alice (see below)

                      • Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy + Beatrice

                        • Margaret + Amadeus IV of Savoy

                          • Beatrice of Savoy + Manfred, King of Sicily

                    • Matilda of Blois-Champagne + Rotrou IV, Count of Perche

                    • Agnes of Champagne + Reginald II, Count of Bar (see above)

                      • Theobald I, Count of Bar + Ermesinde (Isabella) of Bar-sur-Seine

                        • Agnes + Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine

                        • Henry II, Count of Bar + Philippa of Dreux (see above)

                          • Margaret of Bar + Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (see above)

                            • HENRY VII, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (first emperor since the death of Frederick II in 1250, ending the Great Interregnum. First emperor of the House of Luxembourg) + Constance (d. of Roger II)

                          • Theobald II, Count of Bar + Jeanne de Toucy

                            • Henry III, Count of Bar + Eleanor of England

                              • Edward I, Count of Bar (Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)

                              • Joan of Bar, Countess of Surrey (Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)

                  • STEPHEN, KING OF ENGLAND + Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne (daughter of EUSTACE III, brother of GODFREY OF BOUILLON, leader of the Princes’ Crusade and BALDWIN I, KING OF JERUSALEM)

                    • Marie I, Countess of Boulogne + Matthew, Count of Boulogne (see above)

                      • Ida, Countess of Boulogne + Renaud, Count of Dammartin

                        • Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne + Alfonso III of Portugal (no issue)

                      • Margaret + Gerard III, Count of Guelders

                      • Mathilde of Flanders + Henry I, Duke of Brabant

                        • Maria of Brabant + Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor

                        • Margaret + Gerard III, Count of Guelders (son of Count Otto I of Guelders + Richardis of Bavaria)

                          • Otto II, Count of Guelders + Margaret of Cleves (daughter of Dietrich IV, Count of Cleves, descendant of Beatrix of Cleves and Helyas, the Kight of the Swan)

                        • Mathilde + Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine

                        • Henry II, Duke of Brabant + Maria of Swabia (see below)

                        • Henry II, Duke of Brabant + Sophie of Thuringia (see below)

                  • Henry of Blois, Abbot of Glastonbuy, Bishop of Winchester (author of Perlesvaus, and used Geoffrey of Monmouth as a nom de plume to write Historia Regum Britanniae, which was largely responsible for formulating the image of Arthur)

            • Bertha of Burgundy + Robert II of France

              • no issue

            • Rudolph III of Burgundy (last member of the Burgundian branch of the Elder House of Welf) + Ermengarde of Burgundy

              • (no issue)

            • Gerberga of Burgundy + Herman II, Duke of Swabia

              • Gisela of Swabia + Brun I, Count of Brunswick

                • Liudolf, Margrave of Frisia + Gertrude of Egisheim

                  • Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen + Immilla of Turin

                    • Gertrude of Brunswick + Otto I, Count of Salm

                      • Sophia of Rheineck + Dirk VI, Count of Holland (see below)

                  • Matilda of Frisia + Henry I of France (no issue)

                  • Ida of Elsdorf + Leopold (Luitpold, Lippold) of Babenberg

                    • Oda of Stade + Sviatoslav II Yaroslavich

              • Gisela of Swabia + Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (see above)

                • Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor + Agnes of Poitou (see above)

          • Adelaide of Italy + Lothair II of Italy

            • Emma of Italy + Lothair of France

              • Louis V of France (died childless as last Carolingian monarch in West Francia. Succeeded by Hugh Capet)

        • Willa of Burgundy + Boso, Margrave of Tuscany

          • Bertha + Raymond II of Rouergue

            • Hugh of Rouergue

          • Willa of Tuscany + Berengar II of Italy

            • Berengar II of Italy + Willa of Tuscany

              • Adalbert of Italy + Gerberga, mother of Otto-William

                • OTTO-WILLIAM, COUNT OF BURGUNDY (Gerberga married for a second time, to Henry I, Duke of Burgundy, who adopted adopted Otto-William making him a possible heir of the Duchy of Burgundy)

                  • Gerberga + William II of Provence (see above)

                    • William IV of Provence

                    • Fulk Bertrand of Provence

                    • Geoffrey I of Provence

                  • Reginald I, Count of Burgundy + Alice of Normandy (see above)

                    • William I, Count of Burgundy + “Stephanie”

                      • Reginald II, Count of Burgundy

                      • Stephen I, Count of Burgundy + Beatrix of Lorraine

                        • Isabella + HUGH, COUNT OF CHAMPAGNE (Templars, s-b of Stephen of Blois f. of Henry of Blois)

                        • Reginald III, Count of Burgundy + Agatha of Lorraine

                          • Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy + FREDERICK BARBAROSSA

                            • Otto I, Count of Burgundy + Margaret, Countess of Blois (see below)

                      • RAYMOND OF BURGUNDY + Urraca of Leon and Castile (see above)

                        • ALFONSO VII OF LEON AND CASTILE (founder of the ORDER OF CALATRAVA, advised by Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra, relative of Abraham ibn Ezra, student of Abraham Bar Hiyya, influence on temple mysticism of Templars) + Berenguela (d. of Templar Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona)

                          • Sancho III of Castile + Blanche of Navarre

                            • ALFONSO VIII OF CASTILE (patron of the ORDER OF SANTIAGO) + Eleanor of England (see below)

                        • FERDINAND II OF LEON (founder of the ORDER OF SANTIAGO) + Urraca of Portugal (see below)

                        • Constance of Castile + Louis VII of France

                          • Margaret, Queen of England and Hungary + Henry the Young King (later + Béla III of Hungary)

                        • Sancha of Castile + Sancho VI of Navarre (s. of García Ramírez of Navarre + Marguerite de l’Aigle, niece of ROTROU III, COUNT OF PERCHE or “PERCEVEL”)

                          • Sancho VII + Constance of Toulouse (d. of Cathar Raymond VI of Toulouse and Beatrice of Béziers)

                          • Berengaria Sánchez + RICHARD LIONHEART

                          • BLANCHE OF CHAMPAGNE + Theobald III, Count of Champagne (s. of Henry I of Champagne + Marie of France, patroness of Grail author Chretien de Troyes)

                            • THEOBALD IV OF CHAMPAGNE (called the Troubadour, brought back ROSE OF PROVINS to Europe from the BARONS’ CRUSADE)

                              • Theobald II of Navarre + Isabella (see above)

                              • Beatrix + Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy

                                • Beatrice, Lady of Grignon + Hugh XIII of Lusignan

                                  Isabella of Burgundy + Rudolf I of Germany

                              • Henry III of Champagne + Blanche of Artois (see above)

                                • Joan I of Navarre + Philip IV “le Bel” of France (ordered arrest of Templars) (see below)

                      • Sibylla of Burgundy + Odo I, Duke of Burgundy (see above)

                        • Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy + Matilda of Mayenne

                          • Odo II, Duke of Burgundy + Marie of Champagne (see below)

                          • Sibylla + Roger II of Sicily (no issue)

                          • Matilda + William VII of Montpellier

                      • Gisela of Burgundy + Humbert II of Savoy

                        • Amadeus III of Savoy + Mahaut of Albon

                          • Matilda of Savoy + AFONSO I OF PORTUGAL (see above)

                            • Urraca + FERDINAND II OF LEON (see above)

                              • Alfonso IX of León + Berengaria of Castile (see below)

                              • Alfonso IX of León + Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León (see below)

                                • (no issue)

                            • Theresa of Portugal + Philip I, Count of Flanders (patron of Grail author Chrétien de Troyes)

                            • Theresa of Portugal + Odo III, Duke of Burgundy

                            • Sancho I of Portugal + Dulce of Aragon (see below)

                          • Humbert III, Count of Savoy + Gertrude of Flanders (see below)

                        • Adelaide of Maurienne + Louis VI of France (see above)

                          • Louis VII of France + Eleanor of Aquitaine (see below)

                          • Louis VII of France + Adela of Champagne (see above)

                            • Philip II of France + Isabella of Hainault (see below)

                              • Louis VIII of France + Blanche of Castile (see above)

                                • Louis IX of France (founded Order of the Ship and the Double Crescent) + Margaret of Provence (see below)

                                • Robert I of Artois + Matilda of Brabant (see below)

                                • Charles I of Anjou + Beatrice of Provence (see the Genealogy of the Kingdom of Naples)

                                  • Beatrice of Sicily + Philip I, Latin Emperor

                                    • Catherine + Charles, Count of Valois (see above)

                                  • Charles II of Naples (discovered remains of Mary Madgalene at Saint-Maximin) + Mary of Hungary (see above)

                                    • Charles Martel, Prince of Salermo

                                      • Charles I of Hungary (founder of the Order of Saint George) + Elizabeth of Poland

                                    • Margaret + Charles, Count of Valois (see above)

                                      • Philip VI of France + Joan of Burgundy

                                        • John II of France + Bonne of Luxembourg

                          • Robert I, Count of Dreux + Agnes de Baudemont

                            • Robert II, Count of Dreux + Yolande de Coucy (see below)

                          • Constance + Eustace IV, count of Boulogne (and then Raymond V of Toulouse)

                          • Peter I of Courtenay + Elizabeth de Courtenay

                            • Alice de Courtenay + Aymer, Count of Angoulême

                              • Isabella of Angoulême + John of England

                              • Isabella of Angoulême + Hugh X of Lusignan (see below)

                      • Gisela of Burgundy + Rainier, Marquis of Montferrat (see above)

                        • William V, Marquis of Montferrat + Judith of Babenberg (see above)

                          • Conrad of Montferrat + Isabella I of Jerusalem (see below)

                      • Clementia of Burgundy + Robert II, Count of Flanders (see above)

                        • Baldwin VII, Count of Flanders

                      • Guy of Burgundy (POPE CALLIXTUS II, involved in the Investiture Controversy. Close advisor was Pope Honorius II, who approved founding of Templars)

                      • Ermentrude of Bourgogne + Theodoric I, Count of Montbéliard

                        • Reginald I, Count of Bar + Gisele of Vaudémont

                          • Reginald II, Count of Bar + Agnes of Champagne (see below)

                  • Agnes of Burgundy + William V, Duke of Aquitaine (see above)

                    • William VII of Aquitaine

                    • William VIII of Aquitaine + Hildegarde of Burgundy

                      • Agnes + Peter I of Aragon

                      • WILLIAM IX OF AQUITAINE (“The Troubadour”) + Philippa of Toulouse

                        • William X, Duke of Aquitaine + Aenor de Châtellerault

                          • ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE + Henry II of England (see above)

                            • Henry the Young King

                            • Matilda of England + HENRY THE LION

                              • Matilda of Saxony + Geoffrey III, Count of Perche

                              • Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor + Beatrice of Hohenstaufen (see below)

                              • Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine + Agnes of Hohenstaufen (see Genealogy of Agatha of Bulgaria)

                              • William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg + Helena of Denmark (daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark + Sophia of Minsk)

                            • RICHARD LIONHEART + Berengaria of Navarre (d. of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha of Castile, d. of Alfonso VII of León and Castile)

                            • Eleanor + ALFONSO VIII OF CASTILE (see above)

                              • Berengaria of Castile + Alfonso IX of León

                                • Berengaria of León + John of Brienne

                                  • Marie of Brienne + Baldwin II of Constantinople

                                    • Philip of Courtenay + Beatrice of Sicily (see below)

                                  • Isabella II of Jerusalem + FREDERICK II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (birth confirmed by JOACHIM OF FIORE as the fulfillment of the prophecy of Merlin and the Erythraean Sibyl)

                                    • Conrad II of Jerusalem + Elisabeth of Bavaria

                                      • Conradin (the last direct heir of the House of Hohenstaufen)

                                • FERDINAND III OF CASTILE (merged the ORDER OF CALATRAVA into that of the ORDER OF MONFRAGUE) + Elizabeth of Swabia (g-d. of Frederick Barbarossa)

                                  • ALFONSO X OF CASTILE, el Astrologo + Violant of Aragon (see below)

                                • Ferdinand III + Joan, Countess of Ponthieu

                                  • Eleanor of Castile + EDWARD I OF ENGLAND (see below)

                              • Urraca of Castile + Afonso II of Portugal (see below)

                              • Blanche of Castile + Louis VIII of France

                                • Louis IX of France + Margaret of Provence (see below)

                                • Robert I, Count of Artois + Matilda of Brabant (daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant)

                                  • Blanche of Artois + Henry III of Champagne (see below)

                                  • Blanche of Artois + Edmund Crouchback (see below)

                                • CHARLES I OF ANJOU (see Genealogy of the Kingdom of Naples) + Beatrice of Provence

                            • Joan + William II of Sicily (g-s of Roger II of Sicily and Elvira of Castile, d. of Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile) and later Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse

                            • John, King of England + Isabella of Angoulême

                              • Henry III of England + Eleanor of Provence (see below)

                              • Isabella of England + Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

                          • ELEANORE OF AQUITAINE + Louis VII of France

                            • Marie of France + Henry I of Champagne (see below)

                            • Alix of France + Theobald V, Count of Blois (involved in blood libel through affair with Jewess Pulcelina of Blois)

                              • Margaret, Countess of Blois + Otto I, Count of Burgundy (see above)

                              • Margaret, Countess of Blois + Walter II of Avesnes

                                • Mary, Countess of Blois + Hugh I, Count of Blois

                          • Petronilla + Raoul I of Vermandois

                        • Raymond, Prince of Antioch + Constance of Antioch (Bohemond II of Antioch + Alice of Jerusalem)

                          • Bohemond III

                          • Maria + Emperor Manuel I Komnenos

                        • Agnes of Aquitaine + Ramiro II of Aragon (see above)

                          • Petronilla of Aragon + Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona

                            • ALFONSO II OF ARAGON, the Troubadour (patron of Guyot of Provins, source for Wolfram von Eschenbach) + Sancha of Castile (see above)

                              • Peter II of Aragon (killed at the Battle Muret supporting Cathars, founder of the ORDER OF SAINT GEORGE OF ALFAMA) + Marie of Montpellier

                                • James I of Aragon (raised by Templars) + Violant of Hungary (see below)

                              • Alfonso II, Count of Provence (his father transferred the County of Provence from his uncle Sancho to him) + Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier

                                • Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (raised by Templars) + Beatrice of Savoy (daughter of Thomas I of Savoy)

                                  • Margaret of Provence + Louis IX of France

                                    • Philip III of France + Isabella of Aragon (see below)

                                    • Philip III of France + Marie of Brabant

                                      • Margaret of France + Edward I of England (see below)

                                    • Agnes of France + Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (see above)

                                      • Margaret of Burgundy + Louis X of France

                                      • Joan of Burgundy + Philip VI of France

                                        • John II of France + Bonne of Luxembourg

                                      • Mary of Burgundy + Edward I, Count of Bar (Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION)

                                  • Eleanor of Provence + Henry III of England (see above)

                                    • Edward I of England + Eleanor of Castile

                                      • Eleanor of England + Henry III, Count of Bar (see above)

                                      • Edward II of England + Isabella of France (see above)

                                        • Edward III of England (founder of the ORDER OF THE GARTER)

                                          • Edward the Black Prince + Joan of Kent (see below)

                                    • Edward I of England + Margaret of France

                                      • Edmund of Woodstock + Margaret Wake

                                        • Joan of Kent + Edward the Black Prince (see above)

                                          • Richard II of England

                                        • Isabella, Countess of Bedford + Enguerrand VII de Coucy (possible author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)

                                          • Marie I de Coucy, Countess of Soissons + Henry of Bar (see below)

                                        • John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster + Blanche of Lancaster

                                          • Philippa of Lancaster + John I of Portugal (see below)

                                          • Henry IV of England + Mary de Bohun

                                            • Henry V of England (ORDER OF THE DRAGON) + Catherine of Valois (see below)

                                            • Philippa of England + Eric of Pomerania (ORDER OF THE DRAGON)

                                        • Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York + Isabella of Castile

                                          • Richard, 3rd Earl of Cambridge + Anne Mortimer

                                            • Richard Duke of York + Cecily Neville

                                              • Edward IV of England + Elizabeth Woodville (d. of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, fourth cousin twice removed of EMPEROR SIGISMUND)

                                                • Elizabeth of York + Henry VII of England (see above)

                                                  • Henry VIII, King of England + Catherine of Aragon

                                                    • Mary I of England + Philip II of Spain

                                              • Richard III of England + Anne Neville

                                    • Beatrice of England + John II, Duke of Brittany (see below)

                                  • Sanchia of Provence + Richard, King of the Romans, brother of the king of England

                                  • Beatrice of Provence + Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily (see below)

                                  • Edmund Crouchback + Blanche of Artois (see below)

                              • Eleanor + Raymond VI of Toulouse

                              • Sancha + Raymond VII of Toulouse

                            • Alfonso II of Aragon + Adelaide de Burlat (mother of Raymond-Roger Trencavel, named Perceval by Wolfram von Eschenbach)

                            • Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Provence

                            • Dulce of Aragon + Sancho I of Portugal (see above)

                              • Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León + Alfonso IX of León (see above)

                                • (no issue)

                              • Afonso II of Portugal + Urraca of Castile (see above)

                                • Afonso III of Portugal + Beatrice of Castile (see below)

                                  • DENIS I OF PORTUGAL (founder of the ORDER OF CHRIST) + Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal

                              • Berengaria of Portugal + Valdemar II of Denmark

                    • Agnes, Holy Roman Empress + Emperor Henry III

                      • Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (ended Investiture Controversy in 1122, when he and Pope Callixtus II agreed on the Concordat of Worms)