ID: I01658
Name: *Eudes I "the Red" Borel of BURGUNDY
Sex: M
Name: Eudes I BOREL
Birth: 1058 1
Death: 23 MAR 1103 1
Occupation: BET 1079 AND 1103 Duke of Burgundy 1
Note:
Eudes I, surnamed Borel and called the Red, (1058–23 March 1103) was duke of Burgundy between 1079 and 1103. Eudes was the second son of Henry of Burgundy and grandson of Robert I. He became Duke of Burgundy following the abdication of his older brother, Hugh I, who retired to become a Benedictine monk. Eudes married Sibylla of Burgundy (1065 - 1101), daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy.

An interesting incident is reported of this robber baron by an eyewitness Eadmer, biographer of Anselm of Canterbury. While Saint Anselm was progressing through Eudes's territory on his way to Rome in 1097, the bandit, expecting great treasure in the archbishop's retinue, prepared to ambush and loot it. Coming upon the prelate's train, the duke asked for the archbishop, whom they had not found. Anselm promptly came forward and took the duke by surprise, saying "My lord duke, suffer me to embrace thee." The flabbergasted duke immediately suffered the bishop to embrace him and offered himself as Anselm's humble servant.
He was a participant in the ill-fated Crusade of 1101.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

EUDES I, surnamed Borel, who succeeded his brother Hugh as Duke of Burgundy in 1078; died in 1102; married Mahaut, daughter of William le Grand, Count of Burgundy.
(Fenwick Allied Ancestry, page 98)


Father: *Henry of BURGUNDY b: 1035
Mother: *Sybille of BARCELONA b: ABT 1035

Marriage 1 *Maud of BURGUNDY b: 1065 in Bourgogne, France
Children
Ela Borel of BURGUNDY b: in Burgundy, France
*Alice of BURGUNDY b: ABT 1080 in Burgundy, France
*Hugh II of BURGUNDY b: 1084 in Burgundy, France

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