Charles Constantine of Vienne

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Charles Constantine
Anna of Constantinople
(disputed)

Charles-Constantine (died 962) was a

King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor
.

Life

When Charles' father Louis died in 929,

Viennois in 931, by Rudolph of France.[4]

He was married to Thiberge de Troyes.[4] They had two sons and a daughter:

  • Constance of Vienne, married to
    Boson II
    count of Arles.

Name and ancestry

This count appears simply as "Carolus" (Charles) in his own charters.

Anna of Constantinople, born to his second wife Zoe Zaoutzaina.[7] Charles Constantine would thus have been given names reflecting his paternal and maternal imperial heritage.[8] However, it is still questioned whether the planned marriage ever took place,[9] and there are chronological difficulties (not insurmountable in the opinion of Previté-Orton) in making Anna the mother of Charles Constantine.[7] Richerus suggested that the ancestry of Charles Constantine was tainted by illegitimacy back to five generations,[7] although the meaning of this is disputed. Most of the scholars accept that Charles Constantine was Anna's son.[10][11][12]

References and Notes

  1. ^ Eleanor Shipley Duckett, Death and Life in the Tenth Century, (The University of Michigan Press, 1967), 58.
  2. ^ Burgundy and Provence, Constance Brittain Bouchard, The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024, ed. Timothy Reuter, Rosamond McKitterick, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 334-335.
  3. ^ C.W. Previte-Orton, The Early History of the House of Savoy, (Cambridge University Press, 1912), 104 note6.
  4. ^ a b c d Constance Brittain Bouchard, Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), 82.
  5. ^ a b c Reginald L. Poole, "Burgundian Notes", English Historical Review, 27(1912):299—309.
  6. ^ C. W. Previté Orton, "Italy and Provence, 900—950", English Historical Review, 32(1917):335—47.
  7. ^ a b c d C. W. Previté Orton, "Charles Constantine of Vienne", English Historical Review, 29(1914):703—9.
  8. ^ Christian Settipani, Nos Ancêtres de l' Antiquité, p. 6-7
  9. ^ Shepard, Jonathan, The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pg. 423
  10. ISBN 9780521364478
    .
  11. ISBN 9780521524674
    .
  12. ISBN 0812213424
    .

Sources

  • Dictionnaire de Biographie Française. Roman d'Amat and R. Limousin-Lamothe (ed). Paris, 1967.
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