Ermentrude of Roucy

Noble lady and countess

Ermentrude de Roucy (c. 951 – 5 May 1005) (Irmtrude) was a Countess and Duchess of Burgundy.^[1]

She was a daughter of Renaud of Roucy and his wife, Alberade of Lorraine, daughter of Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine.^[2]

By 971, Ermentrude married Aubry II of Mâcon and thus became a countess of Mâcon.^[3] They were the parents of:

• Létaud, archbishop of Besançon;
• Aubry, abbot of Saint-Paul de Besançon;
• Béatrice de Mâcon (d.1030), who was married in 975 to Count Geoffrey I of Gâtinais, and afterwards to the Count Hugues du Perche;
• Perhaps a daughter, N de Mâcon, the putative spouse of Eble de Poitiers, son of William IV of Aquitaine and Emma of Blois; they were possibly the parents of Ebles I of Roucy and all of his siblings, including Yvette de Roucy, the wife of either Manasses II or Manasses III of Rethel.^[4]

She also married Otto-William, Count of Burgundy.^[5] They had children:

• Guy I of Mâcon;^[6]
• Matilda, married Landri of Nevers;
• Gerberga, married William II of Provence;^[7]
• Reginald I, Count of Burgundy;
• Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Aquitaine.

References

1. Ermentrude de Roucy
2. Commire & Klezmer 2000, p. 249.
3. Bouchard 1987, p. 263, 264.
4. Mathieu, Jean-Nöel (2000). La Succession au comté de Roucy aux environs de l'an mil. Vol. Prosopographica et Genealogica / 3. Oxford: Linacre College, Unit for Prosopographical Research. pp. 75–84. ISBN 1-900934-01-9. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
5. Bouchard 1987, p. 263.
6. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafeln 59, 187
7. Jean-Pierre Poly, La Provence et la société féodale 879–1166 (Paris: Bordas, 1976)

References

• Bouchard, Constance Brittain (1987). Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198. Cornell University Press.
• Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2000). Women in World History: Ead-Fur. Yorkin Publications.