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	AQUITAINE - Online Information article about AQUITAINE
		Louis, and as Louis was generally described as a king, Aquitaine is referred to during the Carolingian period as a kingdom, and not as a duchy.
		The new duchy of Aquitaine, comprising the three districts already mentioned, remained in the hands of Rainulf's successors, in spite of some trouble with their Frankish over-lords, until 893 when Count Rainulf II.
		Guienne, a corruption of Aquitaine, seems to have come into use about the loth century, and the subsequent history of Aquitaine is merged in that of Gascony (q.v.) and Guienne (q.v.).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /APO_ARN/AQUITAINE.html (1509 words)

	Alfred of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		927) was briefly Count of Auvergne and Duke of Aquitaine between 926 and 927, succeeding his brother William II of Aquitaine.
		Alfred was the youngest son of the count Alfred I of Carcassone and Adelinde of Auvergne, sister of William I of Aquitaine.
		Marriages and descendants are unknown and in his death, Aquitaine returned to the control of the house of Poitiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_of_Aquitaine (96 words)

	Ancestors of Tim Farr - aqwg207
		At their father's behest and by mutual agreement, Alfred's elder brothers succeeded to the kingship in turn, rather than endanger the kingdom by passing it to under-age children at a time when the country was threatened by worsening Viking raids from Denmark.
		Alfred was patron of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (which was copied and supplemented up to 1154), a patriotic history of the English from the Wessex viewpoint designed to inspire its readers and celebrate Alfred and his monarchy.
		Alfred died in 899, aged 50, and was buried in Winchester, the burial place of the West Saxon royal family.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Bluffs/2806/aqwg207.htm (2025 words)

	Kings and Dukes of Aquitaine
		Aquitaine was a part of the Visigothic kingdom.
		They forced the French kings to give up their supremacy over Aquitaine 1360 during the Hundred Years War, but France reconquered it before the end of that war whereby Aquitaine became a part of the France's royal domain.
		During the high middle age was the name Aquitaine replaced with Guyenne in the French language.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/regents/france/aquitaine.htm (157 words)

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		Alfred was born atWantage in 849, the youngest son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex and hisfirst wife, Osburh.
		Alfred was probably a good deal more aware of the continent of Europethan have been at least some nineteenth and twentieth-century historianswho have devoted their attention to him.
		Alfred's Winchester was not exactly a capitalcity in our sense of the term, but it was the closest thing to one inWessex---a favoured royal residence, a place of ceremonial, prayer andliturgy, a fit setting for solemn acts of state and a mausoleum wherekings would rest and be remembered after their deaths.
	www.brinkfamily.net /tree/p29.htm (9610 words)

	Elf Was 'Secret Arm of French Policy' - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elf Aquitaine, until its privatisation in 1994, was much more than a oil company - according to prosecutors at the trial of Elf's top managers.
		According to investigators, Alfred Sirven - Elf's secretive "director for general affairs" - is said to have handled a fund that was double the size of the one run by the company's man in Africa.
		Alfred Sirven once said he knew enough to "topple the Republic 20 times over" - but since his arrest two years ago he has been tight-lipped.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/crisis/2003/0319elfsecretarm.htm (756 words)

	Ebalus of Aquitaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the interval, Aquitaine was ruled by Dukes of the house of Auvergne.
		He married an Emiliene and by her had two sons, Ebalus (Ebles) bishop of Limoges, and William III of Aquitaine.
		Alfred, having made Ebles his heir, Ebles thus found himself Duke of Aquitaine, Comté du Berry, d'Auvergne and du Velay.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Ebalus-of-Aquitaine.htm (431 words)

	Gnostic Origins of Alfred Rosenberg's Thought
		It is my contention here that Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century is quintessentially a gnostic work which attempted to set the stage for subsequent works which would have taken Germany back in time to a stage in which a simplified, anti-Jewish religion was the common practice in the West among the common peoples.
		In Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th Century the Grail may be viewed as the cause of German objection to some aspects of Christianity, notably to Roman Catholicism.
		In 1028 William V, Duke of Aquitaine, summoned a council of bishops to deal with the heresy, and there it was held that it had spread northward from Italy.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v04/v04p335_Whisker.html (8800 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- French prosecutor seeks prison terms for former Elf Aquitaine president, ...
		PARIS – A French prosecutor demanded the maximum prison sentence Thursday for the former president of state-run oil giant Elf Aquitaine, saying he and two other senior officials were at the heart of a vast corruption network that lined their pockets and secretly bankrolled politicians and African leaders.
		Prosecutor Catherine Pignon told the court Thursday that Le Floch-Prigent, 59, his former second-in-command Alfred Sirven, 76, and former top Africa executive Andre Tarallo, 75, were "at the heart of a system" that allowed corruption to prosper at the company for years, with millions misdirected in the form of commissions, inflated bills and other means.
		Pignon is seeking a maximum five-year prison sentence and a $444,600 fine for Le Floch-Prigent; for Sirven and Tarallo, she is seeking eight-year prison terms and fines of $5.85 million each.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030605-1312-france-oilscandal.html (531 words)

	Eleanor of Aquitaine, in transition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eleanor of Aquitaine was a 15-year-old orphan when, as her guardian, France's King Louis VI arranged her marriage to his 16-year-old son, his heir apparent.
		In 1137, Eleanor was the daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and the by-then deceased daughter of the Viscount of Chatellerault.
		She was heiress to the county of Poitou, the duchy of Gascony, and the duchy of Aquitaine, with Aquitaine including the counties of Saintongne, Angoulême, Périgord, the Limousin, La Marche, and Auvergne.
	members.aol.com /alicemariebeard/eleanor.html (5179 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Queen Eleanor Aquitaine ENGLAND ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
		Afterwards, at the nuptial banquet in the Ombriere palace, Louis wore the ducal coronet of Aquitaine.
		Eleanor of Aquitaine was inher own right a reigning princess, with the warmth of the South in her veins.
		Eleanor inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father, William X. Married to Louis VII (1137), she was queen of France for 15 years, exerting considerable influence over Louis and accompanying him on the Second Crusade (1147-1149).
	www.geneal.net /1233.htm (2787 words)

	William IX of Aquitaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		William IX of Aquitaine (October 22 1071 – February 10 1126, also Guillaume or Guilhem d'Aquitaine), nicknamed the Troubador was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers as William VII of Poitiers between 1086 and 1126.
		William was the son of William VIII of Aquitaine by his third wife Hildegarde of Burgundy.
		One of William's poems is a musing on mortality; it begins: Since now I have a mind to sing/I'll make a song of that which saddens me, and goes on to say: For I have known delight and dalliance/Both far and near, yea and in my own dwelling/But this day, joy and dalliance, farewell.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/William-IX-of-Aquitaine.htm (1056 words)

	Historical Novels: Stories from the Past
		Eleanor of Aquitaine and her three sons join forces with King Louis of France to wage war against Henry II—Eleanor’s philandering husband and her avowed enemy.
		As seen through the eyes of Lucie, a serf who becomes a maid in Eleanor’s court; and Sophie, a highly educated astronomer, Eleanor’s love-hate relationship with Henry and their sons’ struggle to wrest the throne from their father provide the historical background for the story of women’s roles in life and politics during this period.
		Alfred’s task of uniting fractious allies and creating a defense that could withstand the Danes, as well as the intimate look at a marriage of convenience that becomes a tender love match, makes for an intricate tapestry of history and relationships.
	www.downersgrovelibrary.org /pages/histnovels.html (2116 words)

	Corruption convicted ex-President CAP in Paris corruption trial details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Massive under-the-table dealings with the Venezuelan government of 10 years ago have involved witness accounts of espionage, Swiss bank accounts; brown envelopes filled cash for politicians, luxury Paris apartments and mansions in Corsica, bribes and treachery.
		Alfred Sirven, one-time right hand man to Le Floch-Prigent detailed the Venezuela side of a deal where he admitted that another $2.5 million found its way to his own Swiss account.
		The trial, seen as France's largest corruption case in recent history, began in March and is expected to continue runs through early July taking two investigative magistrates eight years of pre-trial work to detail charges in a 657-page report.
	www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=7343 (405 words)

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		Tarallo, 76, who came to be known as Elf Aquitaine's 'Monsieur Africa', managed the company's business in Africa for 20 years from the late seventies.
		Elf Aquitaine was founded in 1965 by Gen Charles de Gaulle as a state- owned company.
		Experts and former executives say French secret services controlled Elf Aquitaine from the start, and took on the task of creating conditions to the advantage of Elf in oil-rich former colonies.
	www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=18662 (660 words)

	King John: 1164-1216
		King John I of England was born in Oxford, England on December 24, 1164.
		He was the son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II of England.
		As the youngest of seven children, and in accordance with traditional English feudal customs, he was not given lands or castles due to his rank of birth.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/WestEurope/KingJohn.CP.html (1121 words)

	Medieval Europe
		After the Danes were finally forced out off the island Alfred began re-educating the priests and monks who had forgotten Latin and also began the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicles" a great historical source.
		Married to Eleanor of Aquitaine thereby doubling the size of his territory.
		She controlled Glascony, Aquitaine and other holdings on the continent of Europe.
	killeenroos.com /2/Medeur.htm (780 words)

	National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Exiled to Louis XIV's court, he made an attempt to regain his crown in 1690 but was routed at the Battle of the Boyne.
		The son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda, he married Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152, and invaded England the following year, forcing Stephen of Blois to acknowledge Henry as his heir.
		Alfred also kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to foster literacy; in addition, he translated Boethius, Augustine, and the Venerable Bede's works into Anglo-Saxon.
	www.naqt.com /YouGottaKnow/british-monarchs.html (1179 words)

	FYI France (sm)(tm) 12.91a FYI France Resource List: Eleanor of Aquitaine
		Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 Drama.
		Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 Fiction.
		Abstract: While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
	www.fyifrance.com /fy1291a.htm (6607 words)

	Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
		Dukes of Gascony, 768-1038 AD The culture of the South of France in the 12th century is one of the first signs of the revival of civilization in Francia after the "second Dark Age" of the 9th and 10th centuries.
		It should be noted that William III of Aquitaine is sometimes reckoned to begin a new sequence of numbering, as William I, which means that Eleanor's father, William X, is also found called William VIII.
		William VIII of Aquitaine acquired the Duchy of Gascony in 1052.
	www.friesian.com /flanders.htm (9945 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christmas 1183: King Henry II of England allows his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, to join the royal court for the holidays, springing her from the castle in which he has imprisoned her for years for plotting against him.
		Discussing every aspect of their love-hate relationship, they argue the question of which of their three sons will succeed Henry, a decision that will affect both England and France.
		Cast: Peter O'Toole (King Henry II), Katharine Hepburn (Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine), Anthony Hopkins (Prince Richard), Nigel Terry (Prince John), John Castle (Prince Geoffrey), Timothy Dalton (King Philip of France), Jane Merrow (Princess Alais).
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,71602\|71603\|\|,00.html (588 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Elf king who fell from power
		Flamboyant former oil executive Alfred Sirven was at the heart of a lavish slush fund scandal which rocked the French political and business establishment.
		He was found guilty in 2001 of masterminding a multi-million-dollar slush fund for French oil giant Elf Aquitaine from his executive suite in Switzerland, where he headed its global operation, Elf International.
		Media reports characterised him as the bagman, even the "foreign minister" for Elf's then boss in France, Loik le Floch-Prigent, also convicted of corruption.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1156086.stm (498 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 450-550
		The connection had definitely been made by the late 9th century, when Asser notes in his biography of King Alfred (contemporary with the first appearance of the Chronicle) that Alfred's mother traced her descent to Stuf and Wihtgar.
		It may be that the Jutish founders of Wight were "attached" to the West Saxon royal house to give Alfred's mother Osburh higher standing, either during the marriage or afterwards when Alfred's father Æthelwulf brought home a Frankish princess as his second wife.
		The children of the first wife may well have felt a need to bolster their claim by proving that they too were royal on both their father's and their mother's side.
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet?do=seek&query=450-550 (5303 words)

	Search Results for peerage - Encyclopædia Britannica
		There were no English ducal titles (the duchies of Normandy and Aquitaine held by the English kings being, of course, French fiefs) until 1337, when Edward III erected the county of Cornwall into a...
		British prime minister (1916–22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death.
		The dukes of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Burgundy were practically independent of the French crown in the early feudal period, as also was the duke of Brittany, though the French royal chancellery at...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=peerage&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (402 words)

	Medieval Controled Research project - Germantown Academy
		Your task is to explore William, how he made this invasion a success, and how he founded the medieval English state.
		Eleanor of Aquitaine was a modern woman living in a medieval world.
		She lived a remarkable life in which she was queen of not one but two European nations.
	www.germantownacademy.org /Academics/ms/7th/middleages (417 words)

	Greg Bard's Genealogical Records
		Born on 8 September 1157, the second son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard was raised in Poitiers, the court of his mother, well-known for its adherence to the rules of courtly love, chivalry, and knighthood.
		The skills Richard learned in these years proved invaluable for he had two strikes against him: he was the second born son and he was not his father's favorite.
		The only English King called "The Great," Alfred is renowned both for his ability as a war leader and for his love of learning.
	www.shocking.com /~gregbard/genealogy (1045 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Total officials detained in bribes probe
		Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was sentenced to six months in jail after a Paris court ruled he had accepted illegal payments from Elf.
		His former mistress, Christine Deviers Joncour, received 18 months in jail, while Loik Le Floch-Prigent, a former Elf-Aquitaine president, and Alfred Sirven, a former senior executive at the company, received jail terms of 3 1/2 years and four years, respectively.
		It was reported that French investigators were also targeting payments made through Teliac by Vivendi Water and Alcatel for access to markets in Iraq and Tanzania, respectively.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cne44384.htm (834 words)

	Fugitive French Oil Exec Alfred Sirven Arrested MELISSA EDDY / AP3feb01
		Sirven, the former second-in-command of the French oil company Elf, went on trial in absentia in a multi million-dollar kickback case involving a former foreign minister, was on the run for four years until his arrest Friday.
		After three years on the run, Alfred Sirven was taken into custody at the Frankfurt airport.
		Sirven is believed to hold the key to corruption involving the former French state-run oil giant Elf Aquitaine.
	www.mindfully.org /Industry/Alfred-Sirven-Oil-Exec.htm (645 words)

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