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Bertha of Holland

Female Abt 1058 - 1093  (~ 35 years)


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  • Name Bertha of Holland 
    Born Abt 1058 
    Gender Female 
    Died 30 Jul 1093  Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas de Calais), France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6510  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Philippe I,   b. Bef 23 May 1053,   d. From 19 Jul 1108 to 30 Jul 1108, Château Melun (Seine-et-Marne), France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 55 years) 
    Married 1072 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2868  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “PHILIPPE I OF FRANCE, King of France, 1060-1108, Count of Paris and Gâtinais, Châtelain of Bourges, son and heir, born in 1053, before 23 May. He married (1st) in 1072 BERTHA OF HOLLAND, daughter of Florenz (or Florent) I, Count of Holland and Westfriesland, by Gertrude, daughter of Berthold II, Duke of Saxony. She was born about 1058. They had two sons, Louis (VI) [King of France] and Henri, and one daughter, Constance. He repudiated his wife, Bertha, in 1092; she died at Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) 30 July 1093. He married (2nd) 15 May 1092 BERTRADE DE MONTFORT, divorced wife of Foulques IV “le Rechin,” Count of Anjou and Touraine, and daughter of Simon I de Montfort, Count of Montfort-l’Amaury, by Agnès, daughter of Richard, Count of Evreux. She was born about 1060. They had two sons, Philippe [Count of Mantes, seigneur of Mehun sur Yevres] and Fleury (or Floire) (seigneur of Nangis], and one daughter, Cécile (wife of Tancred, Prince of Tiberiade, afterwards - Prince of Antioch, and Pons of Toulouse, Count of Tripoli). PHILIPPE I, King of France, died in Château Melun (Seine-et-Marne) 29 (or 30) July 1108, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire. His widow, Bertrade, died as a nun at Fontévrault (Maine-et-Loire) 14 Feb. 1117, and was buried in the church of the Priory of Hautes-Bruyeres (Saint-Remy-l'Honoré, Yvelines).
      Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1(1725): 73-74. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 415 (Genealogia Comitum Flandrix: "Philippus pater Grossi Regis duxit in uxorem Bertam, filiam Balduini Comitis Hollandix, sororem Roberti Jerosolymitani Comitis Flandriæ, de qua genuit Ludovicum Regem et Constantium, Andochiæ Principis uxorem Boenmundi. Idem Philippus postea repudiavit eamdem Bertam, et abstulit Fulconi Richin Andegavensi Comiti uxorem suam nomine Bertrandam, de qua genuit Philippum et Florum et [Ceciliam] Comitissam Tripolitanum."). Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11(1876): 384 (Ex Chronico Vezeliacensi: [Anno] MLIX. Philippus ungitur in Regem. Hic duxit filiam Balduini Comitis Hollandix, sororem Roberti Flandriæ Comitis; et genuit ex ea Ludovicum, et Constantiam uxorem Boamundi Antiocheni."). Durand & Grave Chronique de Mantes (1883): 90, 114-118, 126. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Documents sur la Province du Perche, 3rd ser. 2) (1894): 26-27 (charter of King Philippe I dated 1092). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 5 (1898): 114 (seal of King Philippe I dated AD. 1068 - This appears to be from the same matrix as the seal of Henri I, King of the French [see previous generation above], but the lower storey of the throne has been removed, or has been chipped off; the sceptre appears to be more obliquely placed, and the legend altered to: PHILIP DI GRA FRANCORV REX.). Belleval Les Bâtards de la Maison de France (1901): 8-9. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 240 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Philippus, rex Francorum, frater noster, IIII kal. aug. [1108]."). Prou Recueil des Actes de Philippe Roi de France (1059-1108) (1908): 59-63 (Baudouin, son of Baudouin, Count of Flanders styled "kinsman" [cognati] by King Philippe I of France in charter dated 1065), 100-103 (Baudouin, son of [Baudouin] Count of Flanders, styled "king's kinsman" [cognati ipsius regis] in charter of King Philippe I of France dated 1067). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) XI 134, Tell II XII 384. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 2 (ancestry of Bertha von Holland), 11 (sub France). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.55 & X.I.316. Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 70-78. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 299 (West Frisia-Hamaland ped.), 310 (France ped.), 311 (France ped.). Online resource: http://www.mittelalter-généalogie.de/kapetinger_koenigliche_linie/kapetinger_familie_philipps_1/philipp_l_koenig-von_frankreich_+_1108.html.
      Children of Philippe I of France, by Bertha of Holland:
      i. LOUIS VI, King of France [see next].
      ii. CONSTANCE OF FRANCE, married (1st) HUGUES I, Count of Champagne (or Troyes); (2nd) BOHEMOND I, Duke of Calabria, Prince of Antioch.”