Guigues V Dauphin, comte d'Albon et de Grenoble

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Guigues d'Albon

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Birthplace: St Rambert d'Albon, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France
Death: July 29, 1162 (32-41)
Château de Vizille, Vizille, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
Immediate Family:

Son of Guigues IV "le Dauphin", comte d'Albon and Marguerite de Bourgogne
Husband of Beatrice Aleramici, del Monferrato
Father of Beatrice d'Albon, Dauphine du Viennois, comtesse d'Albon & du Grésivaudan
Brother of Marquise d'Albon and Béatrix Dauphine d'Albon

Occupation: Dauphin du Viennois
Managed by: George J. Homs
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About Guigues V Dauphin, comte d'Albon et de Grenoble

Guigues V (c. 1125 – 29 July 1162) was the Count of Albon and Grenoble from 1142 until his death. He was the first to take the title Dauphin du Viennois.

Guigues V was the son of Guigues IV, Count of Albon (1133–42),[1] and Margaret of Mâcon. He inherited when he was considered too young to rule on his own and so his mother controlled the regency until 1153. In that year Guigues took the reins of government and immediately set about to avenge his father, who had been killed in a surprise attack by the Count of Savoy, Amadeus III, during the siege of Montmélian eleven years earlier.[2] Guigues V besieged Montmélian a second time, but was driven off by Humbert's relief force. Peace was finally achieved by the intervention of the Bishop of Grenoble, Hugh II.

Two years later, on 13 January 1155, Guigues was in Rivoli, near Turin, to recognise the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, for his lands. The emperor in return confirmed the count of Albon in the possession of certain territories his ancestors had acquired through litigation, and granted him a mint at Râme in the Embrunais and the right to mint coin in Cesana (in competition with the Savoyard mint at Susa).[3]

Guigues died without male heirs at Vizille in 1162. He left a daughter, Beatrice, who inherited his lands and titles.

The identity of his wife, whom he married in 1155, is uncertain, other than that she was a kinswoman of Frederick Barbarossa, according to Chorier.

However, Usseglio has shown that Chorier had misdated a charter of Frederick II for one of Frederick I: the Beatrice of Montferrat in question was the daughter of William VI of Montferrat, and widow of Guiges V's grandson Guigues VI of Viennois.


1. GUIGUES [VII] (-Château de Vizille 29 Jul 1162, bur Notre Dame de Grenoble). He succeeded his father as Comte d'Albon, and was also referred to as "Dauphin". "La reine Mathilde" donated property to the abbey of Chalais in 1146, confirmed by charter dated 1147 by "Humbert alors évêque du Puy, depuis archévêque de Vienne…le comte Guigues, fils de Guigues dauphin et sa mere"[269]. Berthold Herzog von Zähringen (imperial administrator of the kingdom of Burgundy) granted rights in Vienne, which Emperor Lothar II had granted to his predecessor Duke Konrad, to “Guigoni Dalphino Albonis comiti” by charter dated 1155[270]. "Dom. comes Albionensium, Guigo…dalphinus", acting with his council of advisers "Arberti de Turre…" and with the advice of "Willelmi de Clariaco Romanensis ecclesie sacristie", gave permission to the inhabitants of Romans to build a wall around their town, by charter dated 1161[271]. The Aymari Rivalli De Allobrogibus records the death in 1162 "in castro suo Visiliæ prope Gratianopolim" of "Guigo tertius" and his burial next to his father[272].

m ( [1155] ) BEATRIX, daughter of --- (- bur Notre-Dame de Grenoble). .. ... .... ......

Guigues [VII] & his wife had two children: 
  • a) [GUIGUES [VIII] (-after 1168). .. ... ]
  • b) BEATRIX (1161-Château de Vizille, Isère 15 Dec 1228, bur Abbaye de Ayes, near Grenoble). .. ... .... .....
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Guigues V Dauphin, comte d'Albon et de Grenoble's Timeline

1125
1125
St Rambert d'Albon, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France
1161
1161
Albon, Rhone-Alpes, France
1162
July 29, 1162
Age 37
Château de Vizille, Vizille, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
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