This article is a list of the counts of Mâcon. In

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, the

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Mâcon Mâcon (), historically Anglicization, anglicised as Mascon, is a city in east-central France. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Mâcon is home t ...

was a county centred on the town called Mâcon in the southern half of medieval

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, in what is now

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(Mâconnais).

Carolingian counts

*fl. 834–845:

Guerin of Provence Guerin, Garin, Warin, or Werner ( or ''Guarnarius''; died 845 or 856) was the Count of Auvergne, Chalon, Mâcon, Autun, Arles and Duke of Provence, Burgundy, and Toulouse. Guerin established the region against the Saracens from a base of Marseille ...

*869–883:

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(† 883), son of Guerin *???-877: Ecchard of Mâcon († 877) (

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family) *877–887:

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(† 887) (family of the

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counts of Provence) *884–886: Bernard Plantevelue († 886) (family of the comtes d'Auvergne) *886–918:

William I of Aquitaine William I (22 March 875 – 6 July 918), called the Pious, was the Count of Auvergne from 886 and Duke of Aquitaine from 893, succeeding the Poitevin ruler Ebalus Manser. He made numerous monastic foundations, most important among them the fou ...

, known as the Pious († 918), son of the former, count of Auvergne and

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*918–926:

William II of Aquitaine William II the Young (died 12 December 926) was the Count of Auvergne and Duke of Aquitaine from 918 to his death, succeeding his uncle William I. William was son of the Acfred I of Carcassonne and Adelinde, William I's sister and Bernard Plantap ...

(† 926), nephew of the former, count of Auvergne and duke of Aquitaine *926–928:

Acfred of Aquitaine Acfred (died 927) was briefly Count of Auvergne and Duke of Aquitaine between 926 and his death, succeeding his brother William II. Acfred was the youngest son of the count Acfred I of Carcassonne and Adelinda, sister of William I of Aquitaine. He ...

(† 928), brother of the former, count of Auvergne and duke of Aquitaine The counts of Auvergne installed the viscounts at Mâcon. The centre of power of the dukes of Aquitaine, then the struggles for control of Aquitaine on Acfred's death, made the viscounts take a comtal title. *884-???: Liétald, viscount of Mâcon *???-915: Ranoux, viscount of Mâcon, probably a close relation of the former *915-943: Aubry I of Mâcon († 943), viscount of Narbonne, entitled comte de Mâcon in 932, married Atallana, daughter of Racon *943–966: Liétald II of Mâcon († 966), son of the former, married Ermengearde, sister of Gilbert of Chalon, comte principal of Burgundy *966–982:

Aubry II of Mâcon Aubry is a French surname and given name. Notable people with the name include * Aubry or Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (died c. 1252), medieval Cistercian chronicler who wrote in Latin * Alan Aubry (born 1974), French photographer * Augusto Aubry (18 ...

(† 982), son of the former, married Ermentrude of

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Comtal house of Burgundy

*982–1002:

Otto-William of Burgundy Otto-William (; ; 958 – 21 September 1026 AD) was count of Mâcon, Nevers, and Burgundy. Life Otto was born in 958 during the joint reign of his grandfather, King Berengar II of Italy, and his father, King Adalbert. His mother was Gerberga ...

(958 † 1026)

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, son of

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and of Gerberge of

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*1002–1004:

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(† 1004), count of Mâcon, son of the former *1004–1049:

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(† 1049), count of Mâcon, son of the former: married Elisabeth of Vergy *1049–1065:

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(† 1065), count of Mâcon, son of the former: married Béatrice *1065–1078: Guy II of Mâcon († 1109), count of Mâcon, son of the former. In 1078, he became a monk at

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and ceded Macon to his cousin

William I of Burgundy William I (1020 – 12 November 1087), called the Great (''le Grand'' or ''Tête Hardie'', "the Stubborn"), was Count of Burgundy from 1057 to 1087 and Mâcon from 1078 to 1087. He was a son of Reginald I, Count of Burgundy and Alice of Normandy, ...

*1078–1085:

(† 1087), count of Burgundy and of Macon, cousin of the former, son of Renaud I of Burgundy and of Alice of Normandy, grandson of Otto-William *1157–1184: Géraud I of Mâcon (1142 † 1184), count of Mâcon and of Vienne, son of William III of Mâcon, married Maurette de Salins *1184–1224: William IV of Mâcon († 1224), count of Mâcon, of Auxonne and of Vienne, eldest son of the former, married Poncia of Beaujeu, then married Scholastique, daughter of

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*1224–1224: Géraud II of Mâcon († 1224), count of Mâcon and of Vienne, son of the former and of Scolastique de Champagne, married Alix Guigonne, daughter of Guigues III of Forez *1224–1239: Alix of Mâcon († 1260), countess of Mâcon and of Vienne, daughter of the former, married John of Dreux († 1239) *1239: on the death of her husband, countess Alix of Mâcon sold the counties of Vienne and Mâcon to the

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