Boso I K of Provence

• Birth: ABT 0840
• Death: 11 JAN 0887

• Reference: 2137

1. Ermengarde of Provence
2. Willa of Provence

• Marriage: 0876

1. Louis "The Blind" K of Italy & Provence
2. Engelberga of Provence

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Notes

Weis' "Ancestral Roots . . ." (141B:17).

Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (343:39), citing ES I:57, Calls him

Boso II, Count of Vienne, King of Lower Burgundy.

Boso was Count of Vienne and governor of Burgundy under the

Carolingians. His wife, ERMENGARDE, felt that as she was the daughter

of an emporer, she ought to be married to more than a mere count. Also,

she considered herself as soverign of both Italy and Burgundy in her own

right. She persuaded Pope John VIII to crown Boso king of Provence.

The years following the death of his father-in-law, KING LOUIS II of

Italy without a male heir were a period of civil war between several

rival claimants to the throne. From 875 to 877, CHARLES THE BALD, King

of France (RIN 1620), was nominally also King of Italy. Boso was his

main representative. Boso was an unsuccessful claimant in 879.