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Birth:           858 
Death:          1 Sep  921 Auxerre

Notes
Burgundian opponent of the Capets
Gertz shows him as Richard de Bourgogne and takes a line through Theodoric and 
Richilde de Bourgogne and fromTheodoric through Childebrand up eventually to 
Pepinand Alpaide. Gertz has too many mistakes, so I go with 3angel.com site, which 
Stuart confirms. jogoad.simplenet shows as of Burgundy and son of Theodore of 
Ardennes, nothing else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard,_Duke_of_Burgundy
Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858–921), also known as Richard of Autun or Richard the 
Justiciar, was Count of Autun from 880 and the first Margrave and Duke of Burgundy. 
He eventually attained suzerainty over all the counties of Burgundy save Mâcon and 
by 890 he was referred to as dux (duke) and by 900 as marchio (margrave). By 918 he 
was being called dux Burgundionem or dux Burgundiae, which probably signified less 
the existence of a unified Burgundian dukedom than feudal suzerainty over a 
multiplicity of counties in a specific region.
Life[edit]

Richard was a Bosonid, the son of Bivin of Gorze and Richildis. His elder brother was 
Boso of Provence and his younger sister was Richildis, second wife of Charles the 
Bald.

In 875, after the death of the Emperor Louis II, Richard and Boso accompanied 
Charles to Italy for his imperial coronation. In February 876, in Pavia, while preparing 
for his return journey, Charles nominated Boso "Duke and Viceroy of Italy and Duke of 
Provence". In 877, on Charles' death, Boso returned to France and confided the realm 
of Italy and the duchy of Provence to Richard and Hugh the Abbot as missi dominici.

In 879, Boso declared himself "King of Provence" following the death of Louis the 
Stammerer, but Richard defected from Boso and took Boso's county of Autun, which 
Carloman II confirmed to him in 880. The two joined battle on the Saône and Richard 
captured Mâcon and garrisoned it in the name of Carloman and Louis III under the 
command of Bernard Plantapilosa, a relative of the hereditary Counts of Mâcon. After 
taking Lyon, he besieged his brother's capital of Vienne, where he was joined by 
Louis, Carloman, and the emperor Charles the Fat. Richard eventually drove Boso out 
in 882 and captured his wife Ermengard and children Engelberga and Louis, sending 
them as prisoners to Autun. Boso went into hiding in Provence.

After the death of Charles the Fat in 888, Richard supported the claim of Duke 
Rudolph to be King of Upper Burgundy and married his sister Adelaide, daughter of 
Conrad II of Auxerre. Richard also supported the coronation of his nephew Louis as 
King of Provence in 890.

Richard died and was buried at Sens. He was exhorted by a bishop at his deathbed to 
beg a pardon for shedding so much blood in his life. He responded:[citation needed]

“ When I have killed a brigand, I have saved the life of honest men, the death of one 
helping prevent his accomplices from making more evil. ” 

Family[edit]

By his wife Adelaide (married 888),[1] daughter of Conrad II, Count of Auxerre, and 
Waldrada of Worms, he had several sons and daughters:
Rudolph, successor and later King of Francia[2]
Hugh the Black, later Duke of Burgundy[3]
Boso,[4] married Bertha, daughter of Boso, Margrave of Tuscany
Ermengard, married Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
Adelaide, married Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
Richilda, married Litaud I, Count of Mâcon

Parents
OF GORZE [OF METZ] Bivin (Budwine) (Bouin) (ABT  820 -  863)
OF ARLES Richilde (ABT  822 - ABT  883)

Siblings
OF METZ Buvinus (ABT  840 - )
OF PROVENCE Boso II (ABT  841 - 11 Jan  887)
OF PROVENCE Richilde (ABT  850 - 2 Jun  910)
OF AUTUN Richard "the Justiciar" ( 858 - 1 Sep  921)

Marriage To OF BURGUNDY Adelaide (Adelheid) (Aelis) (ABT  860 - ABT  929)
    m. BEF  888 

Notes

Parents
____ Conrad II (ABT  840 -  876)
____ Ermentrude or Waldrada ()

Children by OF BURGUNDY Adelaide (Adelheid) (Aelis) ABT  860 - ABT  929
OF BURGUNDY Ermengarde (ABT  895 - )
OF BURGUNDY Adelaide (Aelis) (ABT  895 - )
____ Richilde (ABT  900 - )
OF BURGUNDY Willa (ABT  900 - )

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