Tescelin's parents are not known, but he was related to Josbert de la Ferté,[4] vicomte of Dijon and seneschal of Hugh, Count of Champagne.

The room where St Bernard was born, on the ground floor of one of the castle's towers, was converted into a chapel in the 15th century and entrusted to the congregation of the Feuillants (reformed Cistercians) of Dijon.

[5] Deeply affected by her death at the young age of 17, her third son Bernard made the decision to become a monk at the abbey of Citeaux.

At the end of the 12th century, her tomb was carved with the figures of her six sons, all of whom became Cistercian monks following in the footsteps of their brother Saint Bernard.

Her daughter, Ombeline, also entered the Holy Orders in 1132 and became abbess of the Cistercian monastery of Jully Les Nonains and was declared a saint.