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Birth:          ABT  880 of Burgundy
Death:          11 Jul  937 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_II_of_Burgundy
Rudolph II (c. 880 – 11 July 937), a member of the Elder House of Welf, was King of 
Burgundy from 912 until his death. He initially succeeded in Upper Burgundy and also 
ruled as King of Italy from 922 to 926. In 933 Rudolph acquired the Kingdom of Lower 
Burgundy (Provence) from King Hugh of Italy in exchange for the waiver of his claims 
to the Italian crown, thereby establishing the united Burgundian Kingdom of Arles.

Life[edit]
He was the son of the Upper Burgundian king Rudolph I, and it is presumed that his 
mother was his father's known wife Guilla, probably a daughter of King Boso of 
Provence. Following his ascent to the throne in 912, Rudolph II entered into a border 
conflict with the neighbouring Dukes of Swabia and campaigned the Thurgau and 
Zurich estates. Duke Burchard II of Swabia finally defeated him in the 919 Battle of 
Winterthur; both rulers made peace and Rudolph married Burchard's daughter Bertha 
in 922.[1]

At the same time, Rudolph was asked by several Italian nobles led by Margrave 
Adalbert I of Ivrea to intervene in Italy on their behalf against Emperor Berengar.[2] 
Having entered Italy, he was crowned King of the Lombards at Pavia. In 923, he 
defeated Berengar at Piacenza; Berengar was murdered the following year,[3] possibly 
at the instigation of Rudolph. The king then ruled Upper Burgundy and Italy together, 
residing alternately in both kingdoms.

However, in 926 the Italian nobility turned against him and requested that Hugh of 
Arles, the effective ruler of Provence (or Lower Burgundy), rule them instead.[3] 
Rudolph's father-in-law Duke Burchard II of Swabia came for his support, however, he 
was attacked and killed near Novara by the henchmen of Archbishop Lambert of 
Milan. The king returned to Upper Burgundy to protect himself, assuring Hugh's 
coronation as King of Italy in the process. At the Diet of Worms, Rudolph rendered the 
royal symbol of the Holy Lance to the East Frankish king Henry the Fowler in 
exchange for the Swabian Basel estates.

The two Burgundian kingdoms unified from 933, Rudolph ruled until his death in 937 
and was succeeded by his son Conrad.[2] After his death in 937, his daughter 
Adelaide was married to Hugh's son Lothair,[2] while Hugh married Rudolph's widow 
Bertha.[2] Adelaide later became the second wife of Otto the Great, crowned Holy 
Roman Emperor in 962, and the mother of Emperor Otto II.[4]

Parents
____ Rudolph I ( 859 - 25 Oct  911)
OF VIENNE [OF BURGUNDY] Willa (Guilla) (ABT  862 - BEF  924)

Siblings
____ Rudolph II (ABT  880 - 11 Jul  937)
OF BURGUNDY Waldrada (ABT  892 - )

Marriage To OF SWABIA Bertha (ABT  915 - 11 Aug  967)
    m.  

Notes
her 1st

Parents
____ Burchard II (ABT  885 - 29 Apr  926)
DE NULLENBURG Regilinda (Reginlinde) (ABT  897 - )

Children by OF SWABIA Bertha ABT  915 - 11 Aug  967
OF BURGUNDY Adelaide (Adelheid) "Saint" (ABT  931 - 17 Dec  999)
OF BURGUNDY Conrad (Konrad) I "the Peaceful" (ABT  935 - 19 Oct  993)

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