Richard the Justiciar, Count of Autun, Margrave and Duke of Burgundy
Son of Bivin or Budwine, Count of Italy, Lay Abbot of Gorze and Richildis of Arles, grandson of Richard Count of Amiens and Meaux and Boson III, the Elder, a line called the Bosonids. His siblings included Boso of Provence and King of Lower Burgundy and Richildis, the wife of Charles the Bald, the Holy Roman Emperor.
Richard married Adelaide, the daughter of Conrad II, Count of Auxerre, Waldrada of Worms and Judith, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli. They had the following children:
* Rudolph, his father's successor and King of Francia
* Hught the Black, Duke of Burgundy
* Boso
* Ermengard, married Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
* Adelaide, married Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
* Richilda, married Litaud I, Count of Macon
Both brothers accompanied Charles to his imperial coronation in Pavia in February of 876, during which Charles promoted Boso to Duke and Viceroy of Italy. Charles would die in 877, Boso returned to France, entrusting Italy and Provence to Richard as Hugh the Abbot. Louis the Stammer, King of the West Franks died in 879, Boso claimed himself King of Provence, and Richard struck out on his own, taking Boso's Autun, starting the war between the brothers that ended only when Charles and Fat, in cahoots with Richard, captured Boso' wife, Ermengard, and her children, keeping them prisoners at Autun while Boso hid in Provence. Other reports indicate Ermengard took shelter with Richard in fear from Charles, Carloman and Louis III.
At his death bed, Richard was encouraged to plea for a pardon for the blood he shed, to which he responded,"When I have died a brigand, I have saved the life of honest men, the death of one helping prevent his accomplices from making more evil."
Bio by Anne Shurtleff Stevens
Son of Bivin or Budwine, Count of Italy, Lay Abbot of Gorze and Richildis of Arles, grandson of Richard Count of Amiens and Meaux and Boson III, the Elder, a line called the Bosonids. His siblings included Boso of Provence and King of Lower Burgundy and Richildis, the wife of Charles the Bald, the Holy Roman Emperor.
Richard married Adelaide, the daughter of Conrad II, Count of Auxerre, Waldrada of Worms and Judith, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli. They had the following children:
* Rudolph, his father's successor and King of Francia
* Hught the Black, Duke of Burgundy
* Boso
* Ermengard, married Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
* Adelaide, married Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
* Richilda, married Litaud I, Count of Macon
Both brothers accompanied Charles to his imperial coronation in Pavia in February of 876, during which Charles promoted Boso to Duke and Viceroy of Italy. Charles would die in 877, Boso returned to France, entrusting Italy and Provence to Richard as Hugh the Abbot. Louis the Stammer, King of the West Franks died in 879, Boso claimed himself King of Provence, and Richard struck out on his own, taking Boso's Autun, starting the war between the brothers that ended only when Charles and Fat, in cahoots with Richard, captured Boso' wife, Ermengard, and her children, keeping them prisoners at Autun while Boso hid in Provence. Other reports indicate Ermengard took shelter with Richard in fear from Charles, Carloman and Louis III.
At his death bed, Richard was encouraged to plea for a pardon for the blood he shed, to which he responded,"When I have died a brigand, I have saved the life of honest men, the death of one helping prevent his accomplices from making more evil."
Bio by Anne Shurtleff Stevens
Richard the Justiciar, Count of Autun, Margrave and Duke of Burgundy
Son of Bivin or Budwine, Count of Italy, Lay Abbot of Gorze and Richildis of Arles, grandson of Richard Count of Amiens and Meaux and Boson III, the Elder, a line called the Bosonids. His siblings included Boso of Provence and King of Lower Burgundy and Richildis, the wife of Charles the Bald, the Holy Roman Emperor.
Richard married Adelaide, the daughter of Conrad II, Count of Auxerre, Waldrada of Worms and Judith, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli. They had the following children:
* Rudolph, his father's successor and King of Francia
* Hught the Black, Duke of Burgundy
* Boso
* Ermengard, married Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
* Adelaide, married Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
* Richilda, married Litaud I, Count of Macon
Both brothers accompanied Charles to his imperial coronation in Pavia in February of 876, during which Charles promoted Boso to Duke and Viceroy of Italy. Charles would die in 877, Boso returned to France, entrusting Italy and Provence to Richard as Hugh the Abbot. Louis the Stammer, King of the West Franks died in 879, Boso claimed himself King of Provence, and Richard struck out on his own, taking Boso's Autun, starting the war between the brothers that ended only when Charles and Fat, in cahoots with Richard, captured Boso' wife, Ermengard, and her children, keeping them prisoners at Autun while Boso hid in Provence. Other reports indicate Ermengard took shelter with Richard in fear from Charles, Carloman and Louis III.
At his death bed, Richard was encouraged to plea for a pardon for the blood he shed, to which he responded,"When I have died a brigand, I have saved the life of honest men, the death of one helping prevent his accomplices from making more evil."
Bio by Anne Shurtleff Stevens
Son of Bivin or Budwine, Count of Italy, Lay Abbot of Gorze and Richildis of Arles, grandson of Richard Count of Amiens and Meaux and Boson III, the Elder, a line called the Bosonids. His siblings included Boso of Provence and King of Lower Burgundy and Richildis, the wife of Charles the Bald, the Holy Roman Emperor.
Richard married Adelaide, the daughter of Conrad II, Count of Auxerre, Waldrada of Worms and Judith, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli. They had the following children:
* Rudolph, his father's successor and King of Francia
* Hught the Black, Duke of Burgundy
* Boso
* Ermengard, married Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
* Adelaide, married Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
* Richilda, married Litaud I, Count of Macon
Both brothers accompanied Charles to his imperial coronation in Pavia in February of 876, during which Charles promoted Boso to Duke and Viceroy of Italy. Charles would die in 877, Boso returned to France, entrusting Italy and Provence to Richard as Hugh the Abbot. Louis the Stammer, King of the West Franks died in 879, Boso claimed himself King of Provence, and Richard struck out on his own, taking Boso's Autun, starting the war between the brothers that ended only when Charles and Fat, in cahoots with Richard, captured Boso' wife, Ermengard, and her children, keeping them prisoners at Autun while Boso hid in Provence. Other reports indicate Ermengard took shelter with Richard in fear from Charles, Carloman and Louis III.
At his death bed, Richard was encouraged to plea for a pardon for the blood he shed, to which he responded,"When I have died a brigand, I have saved the life of honest men, the death of one helping prevent his accomplices from making more evil."
Bio by Anne Shurtleff Stevens
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