Guillaume de Montpellier
(Abt 1065-1122)
Ermessende de Melgueil
(Abt 1070-)
Guillaume VI Seigneur de Montpellier et d'Omelas
(Abt 1100-1161)
Sibylia de Catalan
Guillaume VII Seigneur de Montpellier
(Abt 1130-1172)

 

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Matilda de Bourgogne

Guillaume VII Seigneur de Montpellier

  • Born: Abt 1130, Montpellier, Herault, Languedoc, France 160
  • Marriage: Matilda de Bourgogne on 25 Feb 1159 160
  • Died: 1172 about age 42 160

bullet  Information about this person:

• Background Information. 160
William VIII, Seigneur de Montpellier, was born about 1158, died in Rome in 1218, and was buried at St. Peters. He was the son of William VII, born about 1130, died 1172, Seigneur of Montplier, by Matilda (married 25 Feb 1159), born about 1130 and died 29 Sep 1172. Matilda was the daughter of Hugh II Duke of Burgundy who was born about 1085 and died in 1143 and Mathilda of Mayenne, who died after 1162. Hugh II was the son of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy by his wife Matilda of Burgundy.

William VIII, Seigneur de Montpellier married Eudoxia Comneus, who was born about 1167 and they were divorced so she could become a nun in 1202. They married about 1178/9. Eudoxia was the daughter of Alexius Comneus and Maria Dukas. Eudoxia and William VIII were the parents of Maria Dame of Montpellier.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 105A:26-28

• Web Reference: William VII of Montpellier.
William VII of Montpellier was the eldest son of William VI and of his wife Sibylle. Aged around 15, he inherited the lordship of Montpellier from his father in 1146 under the tutelage of his grandmother, Ermessende of Melgueil. In 1156 he married Matilda of Burgundy, daughter of Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy.


Guillaume married Matilda de Bourgogne, daughter of Hugues II "le Pacifique", Duc de Bourgogne and Mathilde de Mayenne, on 25 Feb 1159.160 (Matilda de Bourgogne was born about 1130 in Dijon, Cote-d'Or, Bourgogne 160 and died on 29 Sep 1172 160.)


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