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Rozala of Italy
(Ca 950 - 26 Jan 1003)
Rozala of Italy
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Rozala of Italy
Susanna of Italy.jpg
Countess consort of Flanders
Reign 968–987
Countess regent of Flanders
Reign 987 – c.995
on behalf of Baldwin IV of Flanders
Queen consort to co-king of France
Reign 988–996
Queen consort of France
Reign 996
Born c. 950–60
Died 1003
Ghent
Spouse Arnulf II of Flanders
Robert II of France
Issue Baldwin IV of Flanders
Mathilda
House House of Ivrea
House of Flanders by marriage
House of Capet by marriage
Father Berengar II of Italy
Mother Willa of Tuscany
Rozala of Italy (also known as Rozala of Lombardy, Rozala of Ivrea or Susanna of Ivrea; c. 950–960 –1003) was a Countess of Flanders and Queen consort of the Franks.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Marriages
3 Ancestry
4 References
Biography
Rozala (Susanna), born sometime between 950–960, was the daughter of King Berengar of Ivrea, King of Italy (c. 900 – 966).[1] Her mother was Willa of Tuscany, the daughter of Boso, Margrave of Tuscany and his wife Willa.[2] In 968 she married Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (d. 987).[1][3] On her husband's death, she acted as regent for her young son.
On c. 1 April 988 she married secondly the much younger Robert the Pious (972–1031), the Rex Filius of France; the marriage had been arranged by his father Hugh Capet.[4][3] According to disputed account she brought her husband Montreuil[3] and Ponthieu as a dowry, other assert that she was berieved her right to that territory. Upon her marriage, she took the name of Susannah, and was the queen consort of the co-ruling king Robert, under senior King Hugh. From 991/992 the couple lived basically separated as Rozala had become too old[3] (c. 38) to have more children and they lacked marital happiness.
When her father-in-law died in 996, however, Robert repudiated her completely, desiring to marry Bertha of Burgundy in her place.[5] That marriage was not lawful because of too close kinship so Robert married a third time 1003 with Constance of Arles who bore him seven children.
Rozala retired back to Flanders, where she died and was buried. Robert retained control of her "dowry",[3] or the rights to the mentioned territory.
Marriages
Rosala was firstly (968–987) married to Arnulf II, Count of Flanders. They had the following children:
Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders (980–1035)[1]
Mathilda (d. 995).[1]
The second marriage (988–996) with Robert II of France did not produce any children.
Ancestry
[show]Ancestors of Rozala of Italy
References
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 5
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 59
Vasiliev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1951). Hugh Capet of France and Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 6 (Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University). pp. 233–4. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/1291087. "...compiled at the beginning of 988, certainly before April 8. We know that in the same year the young Robert, at the age of eighteen (he was born in 970), married Rosala-Suzanne, the elderly widow of the Count of Flanders, Arnulf II, who died at the outset of the same year (988). The union was brief and lasted barely a year. Robert repudiated the "old Italian" widow in the following year, 989, but reserved for himself her dowry, the Chateau de Montreuil.13 13Richeri Historiarum liber IV, c. 87: Rotbertus rex cum in 19. aetatis anno iuventutis flore vernaret, Susannam uxorem, genere Italicam, eo quod anus esset, facto divortio repudiavit. Ed. G. Waitz (Hannover, 1877), pp. 168-169. See Pfister, op. cit., p. 1, n. 1; 44; 218. Cf. F. Lot, Les derniers Carolingiens, p. 219: Robert's marriage in March 988. But see F. Lot, Études sur le règne de Hugues Capet, p. 4, n. 2: he rejects his own previous dating, March, 988." line feed character in |quote= at position 473 (help)
Andrzej Poppe, 'The Political Background to the Baptism of Rus': Byzantine-Russian Relations between 986-89', Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 30, (1976), p. 232
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 11
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Sources for Rozala of Lombardy
1 Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 4, 9.
2 Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 80.
3 Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 481.
4 Wikipedia, "Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders", (accessed 02/21/2010).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rozala of Italy
Susanna of Italy.jpg
Countess consort of Flanders
Reign 968–987
Countess regent of Flanders
Reign 987 – c.995
on behalf of Baldwin IV of Flanders
Queen consort to co-king of France
Reign 988–996
Queen consort of France
Reign 996
Born c. 950–60
Died 1003
Ghent
Spouse Arnulf II of Flanders
Robert II of France
Issue Baldwin IV of Flanders
Mathilda
House House of Ivrea
House of Flanders by marriage
House of Capet by marriage
Father Berengar II of Italy
Mother Willa of Tuscany
Rozala of Italy (also known as Rozala of Lombardy, Rozala of Ivrea or Susanna of Ivrea; c. 950–960 –1003) was a Countess of Flanders and Queen consort of the Franks.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Marriages
3 Ancestry
4 References
Biography
Rozala (Susanna), born sometime between 950–960, was the daughter of King Berengar of Ivrea, King of Italy (c. 900 – 966).[1] Her mother was Willa of Tuscany, the daughter of Boso, Margrave of Tuscany and his wife Willa.[2] In 968 she married Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (d. 987).[1][3] On her husband's death, she acted as regent for her young son.
On c. 1 April 988 she married secondly the much younger Robert the Pious (972–1031), the Rex Filius of France; the marriage had been arranged by his father Hugh Capet.[4][3] According to disputed account she brought her husband Montreuil[3] and Ponthieu as a dowry, other assert that she was berieved her right to that territory. Upon her marriage, she took the name of Susannah, and was the queen consort of the co-ruling king Robert, under senior King Hugh. From 991/992 the couple lived basically separated as Rozala had become too old[3] (c. 38) to have more children and they lacked marital happiness.
When her father-in-law died in 996, however, Robert repudiated her completely, desiring to marry Bertha of Burgundy in her place.[5] That marriage was not lawful because of too close kinship so Robert married a third time 1003 with Constance of Arles who bore him seven children.
Rozala retired back to Flanders, where she died and was buried. Robert retained control of her "dowry",[3] or the rights to the mentioned territory.
Marriages
Rosala was firstly (968–987) married to Arnulf II, Count of Flanders. They had the following children:
Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders (980–1035)[1]
Mathilda (d. 995).[1]
The second marriage (988–996) with Robert II of France did not produce any children.
Ancestry
[show]Ancestors of Rozala of Italy
References
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 5
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 59
Vasiliev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1951). Hugh Capet of France and Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 6 (Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University). pp. 233–4. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/1291087. "...compiled at the beginning of 988, certainly before April 8. We know that in the same year the young Robert, at the age of eighteen (he was born in 970), married Rosala-Suzanne, the elderly widow of the Count of Flanders, Arnulf II, who died at the outset of the same year (988). The union was brief and lasted barely a year. Robert repudiated the "old Italian" widow in the following year, 989, but reserved for himself her dowry, the Chateau de Montreuil.13 13Richeri Historiarum liber IV, c. 87: Rotbertus rex cum in 19. aetatis anno iuventutis flore vernaret, Susannam uxorem, genere Italicam, eo quod anus esset, facto divortio repudiavit. Ed. G. Waitz (Hannover, 1877), pp. 168-169. See Pfister, op. cit., p. 1, n. 1; 44; 218. Cf. F. Lot, Les derniers Carolingiens, p. 219: Robert's marriage in March 988. But see F. Lot, Études sur le règne de Hugues Capet, p. 4, n. 2: he rejects his own previous dating, March, 988." line feed character in |quote= at position 473 (help)
Andrzej Poppe, 'The Political Background to the Baptism of Rus': Byzantine-Russian Relations between 986-89', Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 30, (1976), p. 232
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 11
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Sources for Rozala of Lombardy
1 Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 4, 9.
2 Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 80.
3 Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 481.
4 Wikipedia, "Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders", (accessed 02/21/2010).
Events
| Birth | Ca 950 | ||||
| Death | 26 Jan 1003 | ||||
| Alt name | Rozala of Lombardy | ||||
| Alt name | Rozala of Ivrea |
Families
| Spouse | Arnulf II of Flanders "the Younger" (961 - 987) |
| Child | Baudoin IV of Flanders "Baldwin 'Fair Beard'" (980 - 1035) |
| Father | Berengar II of Italy (900 - 961) |
| Mother | Willa of Tuscany (911 - 970) |
| Sibling | Urraca d'Ivrea ( - ) |
| Sibling | Adalbert of Italy (932 - 971) |
| Sibling | Guy (940 - 965) |
| Sibling | Conrad ( - 1001) |