Boso I. (Provence)

Boso I (* 895 ; † 935 ) from the Buviniden family was Count of Provence . He was a son of Richard the Lord of Justice , Duke of Burgundy and Adelheid of Burgundy ( Welfen ). His brother was the French king Rudolf of Burgundy . Lands and activities Bosos were mainly in Lorraine , where he competes with King Henry I was. On November 15, 923 he killed Count Richwin von Verdun , presumably instigated by his stepson Adalbero , on his sick bed.

Boso married Berta von Arles († 965), daughter of Boso of Tuscien , 911/31 Count of Avignon and Vaisin , 926/31 Count of Arles , 931/36 Margrave of Tuscien ( Bosonids ), and Willa. When Boso's father-in-law followed his brother Hugo , who had become King of Italy in 926 , to Italy in 931 and became Margrave of Tuscia there, Boso I succeeded him in Avignon and Arles . He is considered the first Count of Provence.

Boso's marriage remained without an heir. Berta married Raimund I , Count of Rouergue , Margrave of Septimania , in 936 Duke of Aquitaine († 961/65) ( House of Toulouse ). Boso's successor was his younger brother Hugo the Black .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Bischoff (Ed.): Karl der Grosse. Life's work and afterlife. Volume 4, Schwann, 1965, p. 466.
2. ↑ Rudolf Anastasius Köpke, Ernst Dümmler: Emperor Otto the Great. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 97.