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Birth:          ABT  862 Burgundy
Death:          BEF  924 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilla_of_Provence
Guilla of Provence or of Burgundy (died before 924) was an early medieval Frankish 
queen in the Rhone valley.

It is certain that she was the first consort of Rudolf I of Upper Burgundy (who was 
proclaimed king in 888 and died on 25 October 911[1][2]) and later, from 912, consort 
of Hugh of Arles, border count of Provence, who in 926 became king of Northern Italy.

Everything else in her genealogy is more or less uncertain. She is believed to have 
been a daughter of Boso of Lower Burgundy (Provence), and she is presumed to have 
been the mother of King Rudolf II of Upper Burgundy and Italy. 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 Louis the Blind. The second 
would mean she were an ancestor of the last independent Burgundian royal house, 
and through it ancestor 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 is claimed to be Ermengard of Italy. This, however, is fairly unlikely, as 
Ermengard's marriage with Boso took place in 878, a date when Guilla was likely 
already born.
Guilla was the only wife of Rudolf I of Burgundy. This is not certain, as she possibly 
was yet of an age capable of child-bearing at her marriage in 912 with the count 
Hugh, the future Italian king; and her first husband, the King Rudolf, is mentioned as 
having several children already by 888 (who thus could have been born of an earlier, 
to us unknown, wife of Rudolf).

Queen Guilla's date of death, after 912 and before 924, is determined because of a 
charter (expressing her to be dead) dated in 924. 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).


Parents
OF PROVENCE Boso II (ABT  841 - 11 Jan  887)
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Siblings
OF VIENNE [OF BURGUNDY] Willa (Guilla) (ABT  862 - BEF  924)
OF PROVENCE Ermengarde (ABT  870 - BEF 21 Apr  935)

Marriage To ____ Rudolph I ( 859 - 25 Oct  911)
    m.  

Notes

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

Children by ____ Rudolph I  859 - 25 Oct  911
____ Rudolph II (ABT  880 - 11 Jul  937)
OF BURGUNDY Waldrada (ABT  892 - )

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