BOSONID Richildis

Abt 0845 - Abt 0910  (65 years)

• Name	BOSONID Richildis
  Birth	Abt 0845	Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 30 Jan 0910	Chalons sur Saone, Saone et Loire, Bourgogne, France
  Notes	Richild (d. 30 Jan - 910 or later).[1] alias: Richilde of the Ardennes, or Richilde of Provence (c. 845-2 June 910).[1] Titles By marriage: Queen of the West Franks, then Empress of the Franks.[2][3] Parents Father: Buvinus "Buvin", count (d. 863/9).[2] Mother: UNKNOWN of Arles.[3] Marriage Richilde, was the second wife of Charles the Bald, King and Emperor of the Franks.[1] m. (22 Oct 870 Aix-la-Chapelle) Charles II "le Chauve", King of the West Franks (13 Jun 823 - 06 Oct 877; p. Louis I "le Pieux" and Judith Welf). Issue: 5.[4] Rothildis (871 -22 Mar 929). m. (890) Rotger "Roger", Comte de Maine (d. ante 01 Nov 911; p. unknown; uncle: Hugh, Comte de Bourges) Drogo Pepin (son) ____ (d. infant) Charles (10 Oct 876 - 877) About Originally the concubine of Charles the Bald, she married him in 870 after the death of his first wife, Ermentrude of Orléans. She bore him five children, but only the eldest daughter, Rothilde (c. 871-c. 928), who married first Hugues of Bourges and secondly Roger of Maine, survived to adulthood. Boso was a Frankish noblemen, related to the Carolingian dynasty, and rose to be King of Provence.[4][5] Whenever Charles went to war, Richilde managed the realm, and acted as head of state after the death of Charles in 877.[6] She planned to place her brother Boso, Duke of Burgundy, on the throne, after Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans) died shortly after his father while his children were too young to rule on their own. However, she was accused of incest with her brother and the lords of the kingdom refused to subject themselves to her authority. She then helped Boso to become King of Provence.[7] She attempted to assume a position of authority upon the death of Louis III of France in 882, and of Carloman of France in 884; however, the empire was agitated and under threat by the Normans, and the grandees of the realm forced her to withdraw to Provence, where she died on 2 June 910.[8] Sources ↑ 1.0 1.1 Settipani, C. and Kerrebrouck, P. van (1993) La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987, 1ère partie, Mérovingiens, Carolingiens et Robertiens (Villeneuve d'Ascq), p. 51. ↑ Settipani (1993), p. 366. ↑ Nachkommen nach Brigitte Kasten, Kaiserinnen in karolingischer Zeit, S. 24.. ↑ Provence. ↑ Levillain, L. 'Les Nibelungen historiques et leurs alliances de famille', Annales du Midi 49 (1937), pp. 337-408, 357 footnote 2, quoted in Settipani (1993), p. 350, footnote 1080. ↑ Franks, Merovingians. ↑ Levillain, L. 'Les Nibelungen historiques et leurs alliances de famille', Annales du Midi 49 (1937), pp. 337-408, 357 Settipani (1993), p. 350. ↑ Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia: Charles the Bald Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands.
  Person ID	I59610	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	AMIENS Buvinus,   b. Bef 0820, Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France d. Abt 0863, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France (Age > 43 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	BOSONID Richilde,   b. Abt 0820, Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France d. Bef 0869, Metz, Moselle, France (Age < 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F25862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	CAROLINGIAN Charles,   b. 13 Jun 0823, Frankfurt d. 06 Oct 0877, Brides Les Bains, Bourgogne (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	22 Jan 0870	Aix-la-Chapelle
  Children	1. CAROLINGIAN Judith,   b. Abt 0844, France d. Aft 0870, Flanders (Age > 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: Stepchild]   2. CAROLINGIAN Louis,   b. 01 Nov 0846, France d. 10 Apr 0879, Compiègne, Oise, France (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: Stepchild]   3. CAROLINGIAN Rothilde,   b. 0871   d. 22 Mar 0929, France (Age ~ 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26464	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026