Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Robert I de Clermont
- 1262
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
Generation: 5
Generation: 6
1. Robert I de Clermont (son of Guillaume II de Clermont and Huguette); died on 12 Apr 1262. Notes:
Comte de Clermont.
Family/Spouse: Alesie de Ventadour. Alesie (daughter of Ebles V de Ventadour and Marguerite de Turenne) died before Nov 1260. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Robert II de Clermont was born about 1220; died in Mar 1282.
2. Guillaume II de Clermont was born about 1175 (son of Robert IV Dauphin); died between 17 Oct 1239 and 19 Nov 1240. Notes:
Dauphin et Comte de Clermont.
Guillaume married Huguette. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Huguette Notes:
Dame de Chamalières. Living 1196. Died on a 3 September, year unknown.
Children:
- 1. Robert I de Clermont died on 12 Apr 1262.
Generation: 3
4. Robert IV Dauphin was born about 1150 (son of Guillaume VII d'Auvergne and Marquise d'Albon); died on 22 Mar 1235. Notes:
Comte de Clermont.
From Leo Van de Pas:
Robert Dauphin was born about 1150, the son of Guillaume VII 'le jeune', comte d'Auvergne, and Marquise d'Albon. He was not the count of Auvergne as his father had been dispossessed of Auvergne by his uncle, who ruled Auvergne as Guillaume VIII, known as 'le vieux', and passed Auvergne to his son. Robert called himself Dauphin in memory of his mother, whose brother Guigues V d'Albon was the first to take the title of Dauphin de Viennois.
Robert became count of Clermont on the death of his father about 1169. As his apanage he received the lordships of Issoire, Chamalières, Montrognon, Plauzat, Champeix, Crocq, Aurières, Neschers, Chanonat, Chauriat and Rochefort, as well as the castellany of Vodable, encompassing the estates of Solignat, Ronzières, Antoing, Mazerat, Longchamp, Le Broc, Mareughol, Bergonne, Collanges, etc. This domain, with its capital of Vodable, was designated as the dauphiné d'Auvergne, and Robert was its first dauphin. He abandoned the arms of the counts of Auvergne and replaced them with those of Albon de Viennois. His seal showed a dolphin with the inscription _Sigillum Delphini._
Robert was renowned for his patronage of the arts, and was himself a troubadour, called in Occitan 'el bons Dalfins d'Alvernhe'. Many troubadours were employed by him or sang at his court, including Peirol, Perdigon, Peire de Maensac, Gaucelm Faidit, and Uc de Saint Circ. His cousin Robert d'Auvergne, bishop of Clermont, and Richard 'the Lionheart', exchanged erotic verses with him.Children:
- 2. Guillaume II de Clermont was born about 1175; died between 17 Oct 1239 and 19 Nov 1240.
Generation: 4
8. Guillaume VII d'Auvergne was born about 1120 (son of Robert III d'Auvergne); died about 1169. Notes:
Called "le Jeune." Comte d'Auvergne.
Guillaume married Marquise d'Albon about 1150. Marquise (daughter of Guigues IX of Albon and Margaret of Mâcon) died on 21 Aug 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Marquise d'Albon (daughter of Guigues IX of Albon and Margaret of Mâcon); died on 21 Aug 1196. Children:
- 4. Robert IV Dauphin was born about 1150; died on 22 Mar 1235.
Generation: 5
16. Robert III d'Auvergne was born about 1095 (son of Guillaume VI d'Auvergne and Emma d'Evreux); died about 1145 in Palestine. Notes:
Comte d'Auvergne.
Children:
- 8. Guillaume VII d'Auvergne was born about 1120; died about 1169.
18. Guigues IX of Albon (son of Guigues VIII of Albon and Matilda); died on 28 Jun 1142. Notes:
Count of Albon.
Guigues married Margaret of Mâcon. Margaret (daughter of Stephen I of Burgundy and Beatrix) was born about 1100; died in 1163. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
19. Margaret of Mâcon was born about 1100 (daughter of Stephen I of Burgundy and Beatrix); died in 1163. Notes:
Also called Marguerite de Bourgogne; Clemence.
Children:
- Beatrice of Albon
- 9. Marquise d'Albon died on 21 Aug 1196.
- Guigues X of Albon was born about 1125; died on 29 Jul 1162.
Generation: 6
32. Guillaume VI d'Auvergne was born about 1069 (son of Robert II d'Auvergne and Judith de Melgueil); died about 1136. Notes:
Comte d'Auvergne et de Velay.
Guillaume married Emma d'Evreux. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
33. Emma d'Evreux (daughter of William d'Evreux and Hawise). Children:
- Guillaume VIII d'Auvergne died about 1182.
- 16. Robert III d'Auvergne was born about 1095; died about 1145 in Palestine.
36. Guigues VIII of Albon was born between 1050 and 1060 (son of Guigues VII of Albon and Petronell); died in 1133. Notes:
Count of Albon. Called "Guigues the Old."
Guigues married Matilda. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
37. Matilda Notes:
Referred to in contemporary sources as "Queen" Matilda, leading to speculation as to which living queen she could have been. Variously proposed as a daughter of Edgar the Atheling (d. 1126) or of Roger I of Sicily (d. 1101), in the latter case by his third wife Adelaide of Savona. The case for Roger and Adelaide is plausible, although they are known to have had another daughter named Matilda who married Conrad II of Italy.
Children:
- Mahaut of Albon died after 1145.
- 18. Guigues IX of Albon died on 28 Jun 1142.
- Gersende d'Albon
38. Stephen I of Burgundy was born in 1065 (son of William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie); died in 1102 in Anatolia. Notes:
Count Palatine of Burgundy; Count of Mâcon and Vienne. Called (like his father) "tête hardie", "the rash" or "the stubborn".
Fought in the Crusade of 1101, helping with the capture of Ancyra and fighting in the disastrous Battle of Mersivan, from which he barely escaped.Stephen married Beatrix. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
39. Beatrix Children:
- Elisabeth of Burgundy died after 1125.
- Renaud III of Burgundy was born about 1093; died in 1148.
- William IV of Burgundy was born between 1094 and 1095; died in 1155.
- 19. Margaret of Mâcon was born about 1100; died in 1163.