VIENNE Willa

0873 - 0929  (55 years)

• Name	VIENNE Willa
  Birth	Dec 0873	Vienne, Bourgogne Cisjurane
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Jun 0929	Bourgogne, France
  Notes	According to Chaume (1925),[1] and Hlawitschka (1976),[2] Willa may have been a daughter of Boson, King of Provence. While Rudolf I, King of Upper Burgundy, did marry a woman named, Willa,[3] no primary source support a marriage to a daughter of Boson. Willa's origins and parents are UNKNOWN.[4] European Aristocracy Willa Vienne was a member of the aristocracy in Europe. Child 1 here: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/PROVENCE.htm#BosonKingProvencedied887B Note Married #2 Hugh of Arles, Count of Provence in 912. Wikipedia: Everything else in her genealogy is more or less uncertain. ' These two kinships enjoy some indicative support from near-contemporary sources. The first-mentioned kinship would make her a sibling, at least half-sister, of King Louis III of Italy. The second would mean she was an ancestress of the last independent Burgundian royal house, and through it ancestress of last Ottonian emperors, of the last Carolingian king of France, of a number of dukes of Swabia, of the later Guelph dynasty, and of the Salian Imperial House, as well as of practically all European royal families since High Middle Ages. Furthermore, genealogies that are regarded mostly as wishful thinking by critical research, have for centuries claimed that: ? Guilla's mother was Ermengarde of Italy, one of the heiresses of last Carolingians, who was daughter of Emperor Louis II, King of Italy, and became the last of the wives of king Boso of Lower Burgundy. This however is fairly unlikely, as Ermengarde's marriage with king Boso took place in 978, a date when Guilla was likely already born. ? Guilla was the only wife of king Rudolf I of Upper Burgundy. This is not certain, as she possibly was yet in age of being capable of child-bearing at her marriage in 912 with the count Hugh, the future Italian king; and her first husband, the king Rudolf I, is mentioned of having several children already in 888 (who thus could have been born of an earlier, to us unknown, wife of Rudolf). Queen Guilla's date of death, after 912 but before 924, is between those years because of a charter (expressing her be dead) dated in the latter year. After her death, in 926, her widower, count Hugh, took over the kingdom of Italy from Rudolf II of Burgundy (who was either stepson or own son of Guilla).
  Person ID	I57960	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	of PROVENCE Boso (Boso II) King,   b. Abt 0845   d. Abt 11 Jan 0887, Vienne, Provence (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	CAROLINGIAN Ermengarde,   b. Abt 0852   d. 02 Jun 0896, Vienne, Provence (Age 44 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	0876
  Family ID	F26019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BOURGOGNE Rudolf,   b. Abt 0859, Bourgogne, Marne, Aisne, France d. 06 Oct 0911, Juran, Bourgogne, France (Age 52 years)
  Children	1. BOURGOGNE Rudolf,   b. Abt 0890, Bourgogne, France d. 11 Aug 0937, Auxerre, France (Age 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. BOURGOGNE Willa,   b. Abt 0890, Bourgogne, France d. Aft 0936, Bourgogne, France (Age > 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F25861	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026