Guilla (orWilla) ofProvence orBurgundy (873-924) was anearly medieval Frankishqueen consort in theRhone valley.
It is certain that she was first the consort ofRudolf I of Upper Burgundy (who was proclaimed king in 888 and died on 25 October 911[1][2]) and later, from 912, consort ofHugh of Arles, bordercount ofProvence, who in 926 became king of northernItaly.
Everything else in her genealogy is more or less uncertain. She is believed to have been a daughter ofBoso of Lower Burgundy (Provence), and she is presumed to have been the mother of KingRudolph II of Burgundy. These two kinships enjoy some indicative support from near-contemporary sources. The first-mentioned kinship would make her at least half-sister ofLouis the Blind. The second would mean she was an ancestress of the last independent Burgundian royal house, and through it ancestress of lastOttonian emperors, of the lastCarolingian king of France, of a number ofdukes of Swabia, of the laterGuelph dynasty, and of theSalian Imperial House, as well as of practically all European royal families since theHigh Middle Ages.[citation needed]
Queen Guilla's date of death, after 912 and before 924, is determined because of acharter (expressing her to be dead) dated in 924.