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Birth:          ABT 1090 
Death:          28 Jun 1142 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guigues_IV_of_Albon
Guigues IV[a] (died 28 June 1142), called le Dauphin (Latin Guigo Dalphinus), was the 
count of Albon from 1133. He was the first to take the name Dauphin, meaning 
"dolphin", which became a title among his successors.[1]

Guigues was the eldest son and heir of Guigues III of Albon and Matilda. He was first 
called dauphin in a document of his father's from 1110.[1] There is a theory that 
Matilda was in fact English, a daughter of Edgar the Ætheling, and that the name 
Dauphin came to Guigues through her, since she had a relative named Dolfin, a son of 
Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria.[2] Another theory posits that Matilda was a daughter of 
Count Roger I of Sicily and the widow of King Conrad II of Italy.[1]

Guigues married Margaret (fr), daughter of Stephen I, Count of Burgundy, and niece of 
Pope Calixtus II.[3]

Guigues had good relations with the priory of Oulx and the abbey of Bonnevaux, to 
which he made gifts. In 1140, however, Guigues was involved in a dispute with the 
bishop Hugh II of Grenoble.[3]

In or about 1134, Count Amadeus III of Savoy married Guigues's sister Matilda. Her 
dowry was the likely cause of the dispute that erupted between the two counts in 
1140, the first war between the two counties. Guigues invaded the county of Savoy 
and besieged Montmélian. Ambushed by Amadeus near the castle of La Buissière, he 
was wounded in battle and died a few days later on 28 June 1142.[4][5] He was 
succeeded by his son Guigues V.[4]

Guigues IV may have been the inspiration for the character of Schionatulander in 
Wolfram von Eschenbach's romance Titurel, written around 1217.[5]

Parents
____ Guigues VIII (III of Albon) (ABT 1055 - 21 Dec 1125)
____ Mathilda (ABT 1070 - ABT 1143)

Siblings
____ Guigues IV (ABT 1090 - 28 Jun 1142)
OF ALBON Gersende (ABT 1090 - AFT 1160)
OF ALBON Matilda (Mathilde) (Maud) (ABT 1106 - AFT Jan 1145)

Marriage To OF MACON Margaret (ABT 1091 - 1163)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BOURGOGNE Stephen (ABT 1055 - 27 May 1102)
OF LORRAINE Beatrice (ABT 1060 - )

Children by OF MACON Margaret ABT 1091 - 1163
DE VIENNE Guigues V (ABT 1125 - 29 Jul 1162)

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