Grandmother of medieval Europe

[transemacabre]

So I've been working on several projects involving Eleanor of Aquitaine, including an itinerary and a complete listing of her (many) grandchildren. I've discovered that Eleanor was the original grandmama of Europe, with a list of titled offspring a mile long. Among her grandchildren we find:

1 King of England (Henry III)
1 King of Germany (Richard of Cornwall)
1 King of Castile (Enrique I)
1 King of Jerusalem (Henri of Champagne)
1 Holy Roman Emperor (Otto IV)
1 Holy Roman Empress (Isabella of England)
1 Empress of Constantinople (Marie of Champagne)
1 Queen of France (Blanca of Castile)
1 Queen of Scotland (Joan of England)
1 Queen of Leon (Berenguela of Castile)
1 Queen of Portugal (Urraca of Castile)
1 Queen of Aragon (Leonor of Castile)
1 Princess of Gwynedd (Joan Fitzroy)
1 Duke of Brittany (Arthur I)
1 Duke of Lüneburg (Wilhelm of Brunswick)
1 Count of Toulouse (Raymond VII)
2 Counts of Champagne (Henri II and Thibault III)
1 Count of Blois (Louis I)
1 Palatine Count of the Rhein (Heinrich I)
1 Countess of Macon (Scholastique of Champagne)
1 Countess of Burgundy (Marguerite of Blois)
1 Countess of Pembroke (Eleanor of England)
1 Countess of Leicester (Eleanor of England)
1 Countess of Perche (Matilda of Brunswick)

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[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Agnes of Germany (grandmother of Frederick Barbarossa) and Gisela of Burgundy (grandmother of Louis VII) would also be strong contenders: both married twice, and had over 20 children each. It proved difficult for some of their joint grandchildren in Monferrat to find spouses outwith the prohibited degrees!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Here are the first cousins of my Montferrat boys: both their grandmothers could claim to be 'grandmothers of Europe'. The list isn't all-encompassing - the genealogy site didn't enumerate some families in detail:

Grandchildren of Gisela of Burgundy:
1. Umberto III of Savoy, Aosta and Moriana
2. Giovanni, a priest
3. Pietro, a priest
4. Guglielmo, a priest
5. Elisa, m. Humbert III de Beaujeu
6. Agnes, Countess of Geneva
7. Matilda, Queen of Portugal
8. Margherita, a nun
9. Isabella
10. Giuliana, Abbess of St.Andre-le-Haut, Vienne
11. Isabelle of Vermandois
12. Philippe of France
13. Louis VII of France
14. Henri, Bishop of Beauvais
15. Hugues (d young)
16. Robert I Count of Dreux
17. Philippe, Archbishop of Paris
18. Pierre, Seigneur de Courtenay
19. Constance, Countess of Boulogne and of Toulouse
20. Counts of Biandrate

Grandchildren of Agnes of Germany:
1. Frederick Barbarossa
2. Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine
3. Bertha of Upper Lorraine
4. Judith of Thuringia
5. Heinrich-Berengar of Germany
6. Duke Friedrich IV of Swabia
7. wife of Great Prince Izyaslav II of Kiev
8. Bertha
9. Gertrud
10. Leopold
11. Konstantin von Lochgarten
12. Giselbert von Hotingen
13. Sophia
14. Ludmilla von Vellberg
15. The von Lengenfelds
16. The de Roucys
17. The von Stahlecks, Pfalzgraf of Lorraine
18. Leopold V of Austria
19. Heinrich of Mödling
20. Richardis, Landgravine von Steffling
21. Agnes, Queen of Hungary, Duchess of Carinthia
22. Duke Boleslaw I "Wysoki" of Silesia and Breslau
23. Duke Miezko I of Oppeln and Ratibor
24. Duke Konrad of Glogau
25. Albert, d young
26. Richeza, Queen of Castille & Leon, Countess of Provence, Countess von Everstein
27. Bedrich, Duke of Bohemia and Moravia
28. Svatopluk
29. Vojtech (Adalbert), Archbishop of Salzburg
30. Agnes, Abbess of St.Georg, Prague
31. The von Winzenburgs
32. The von Regensburgs