• REMARKS:
  mother not certain, her father also not certain
  
• BIOGRAPHY
  Guille or Wille of Provence or of Burgundy was an early medieval Frankish queen in the Rhone valley. It is certain that she was first the wife of Rudolf I, king of (Upper) Burgundy, and then from 912 the wife of Hugo of Arles, border count of Provence, who in 926 became king of Northern Italy.
  
  Everything else in Guille's genealogy is more or less uncertain. She is believed to have been a daughter of Boso, count of Vienne, king of Lower-Burgundy, and she is presumed to have been the mother of King Rudolf II of Upper Burgundy and Italy. These two kinships enjoy some indicative support from near-contemporary sources. The first mentioned kinship would make her a sibling, at least half-sister, of Louis III, king of Lower-Burgundy and Italy. The second would mean she was an ancestress of the last independent Burgundian royal house, and through it an ancestress of the last Ottonian emperors, of the last Carolingian king of France, of a number of dukes of Swabia, of the later Guelph dynasty, and of the Salian Imperial House, as well as of practically all European royal families since the High Middle Ages.
  
  Genealogies, regarded mostly as wishful thinking by critical research, have for centuries claimed that Guille's mother was Ermengard of Italy, one of the heiresses of the last Carolingians, who was daughter of Louis II, emperor, king of Italy, and became the last of the wives of King Boso of Lower-Burgundy. This however is fairly unlikely, as Ermengard's marriage to Boso took place in 876, a date when Guille was likely already born.
  
  The other claim is that Guille was the only wife of Rudolf I, king of Upper-Burgundy. This is not certain, as she was possibly still of child-bearing age at her marriage in 912 with Hugo of Arles, the future Italian king. Her first husband Rudolf I is mentioned of having several children already in 888 (who could thus have been born to an earlier but now unknown wife of Rudolf).
  
  Guille's date of death, after 912 but before 924, is based on a charter (expressing her to be dead) dated in the latter year. After her death, in 926 her widower Count Hugo took over the kingdom of Italy from Rudolf II, king of Burgundy (who was either a stepson or own son of Guille).