• Married: Before 10 Jul 961
• Died: Before 11 Jul 971/2

  Research Notes:

"Archinbodus et uxor mea Rotgardis" donated land "in pago Lugdunensi in agro Tosiacensi in villa Nonedis…[et] in villa…Melerges" to Cluny by charter dated [11 Jul 960/10 Jul 961]. Chazaud highlights that there is nothing in this charter which links "Archinbodus" to Archambaud [I] Seigneur de Bourbon, which is correct. However, he proceeds to identify Archambaud [I] as the Archambaud whose wife was Ermengarde.... As the estimated birth dates shown in this document demonstrate, the chronology dictates that there must have been two generations in the Bourbon family during the second half of the 10th century and therefore that Archambaud [I] and Archambaud [II] were most likely two different persons. The likelihood of "Archinbodus" in the [960/61] charter being Archambaud [I] can be verified by the number of references to the name Archambaud in later 10th century Cluny charters..., which suggest that the name was not common although not unique to the Bourbon family. In conclusion, it does not appear unreasonable to suppose that the charter dated [11 Jul 960/10 Jul 961] does refer to Archambaud [I] and that "Rotgardis" was therefore his wife. The charter dated [11 Jul 971/10 Jul 972], which records a donation by "Archembaldus", with the consent of "filiorum ac filiarum mearum", of property "in loco…Montiliacus situm" to Cluny, suggests that Archambaud’s wife had died before this date.... ²