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  William IX of Aquitaine (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William IX of Aquitaine (October 22 1071 - February 10 1126, also Guillaume d'Aquitaine), nicknamed the Troubador was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers between 1086 and 1126.
William was the son of William VIII of Aquitaine by his wife Hildegard of Burgundy.
William of Aquitaine joined the first Crusade led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert of Normandy and Raymond of Toulouse only after the fall of Jerusalem in 1099.
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 William V of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William V (969 – 31 January 1030), called the Great (le Grand), was Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou (as William II or III) from 990 until his death.
He was the son and successor of William IV by his wife Emma, daughter of Theobald I of Blois.
His second wife was Prisca (or Brisque), daughter of Duke William II Sánchez of Gascony and sister of Duke Sancho VI William.
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 A rough draft of my family tree (Q2 2006 Edition) - Person Page 24
William I "Longsword" Duke of Normandy was born in 900 at Normandy, France.
William IX the Troubador Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers was born on 22 October 1071.
William VIII of Aquitaine was born in 1025.
www.robweir.com /genealogy/mytree/p24.htm   (7615 words)

  
 Eleanor of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The oldest of three children, Eleanor´s father was William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and her mother was Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte of Chatellerault.
William´s and Aenor´s marriage had been arranged by his father, William IX of Aquitaine the Troubadour, and her mother, Dangereuse, William IX´s long-time mistress.
She became heiress to Aquitaine (the largest and richest of the provinces in what would become modern France) and 7 other countries, after the death of her brother, William Aigret, at age 3, along with their mother.
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 William II - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From 1097 to 1099 William was engaged primarily in campaigns in France, securing and holding northern Maine but failing in his attempt to seize the French Vexin.
William ruled England with a strong hand and aroused the hatred particularly of the church, for which he had utter contempt.
William was killed by an arrow while on a hunting party, and there is some evidence to suggest that his death was not an accident.
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 Eleanor Aquitaine Duchess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The eldest of three children, her father was William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and her mother was Ænor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte of Chatellerault.
William and Ænor's marriage had been arranged by his father, William IX of Aquitaine the Troubador, and her mother, Dangereuse, William IX's long-time mistress.
William and Aenor's marriage had been arranged by his father and her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of William IX of Aquitaine, the Troubador.
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 William XI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William was married twice in his life and was succeeded by three children.
William was born in 1099 and went on to become William X the Toulousan of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine.
Raymond was born in 1100 and became Raymond I of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch.
faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/Ency/william.html   (461 words)

  
 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eleanor of Aquitaine was without a doubt the most colorful woman of her time, considered by many to have been the most powerful and enlightened woman of her age.
Eleanor of Aquitaine is considered by many to have been the most powerful and enlightened woman of her age, if not the entire medieval epoch.
Eleanor of Aquitaine was without a doubt the most colorful woman of her time, infatuated with power, always scheming to either achieve more of it or to maintain what she had.
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 William IX of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Poitou as William VII of Poitou between 1086 and 1126.
William was the son of William VIII of Aquitaine by his third wife Hildegarde of Burgundy.
In 1094 he married Philippa of Toulouse, the daughter and heiress of William IV of Toulouse, recently widowed by the death of her first husband, Sancho Ramirez of Aragon.
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 Aquitaine
Aquitaine combines a mild, coastal climate with humidity in the interior and winter snow in the mountains.
In 1137, the fifteen year old Eleanor of Aquitaine inherited the title to the Duchy of Aquitaine and became themost rich and powerful woman in France and at this young age was also wed to meet political means.
Her grandfather William IX of Aquitaine was the first known troubadour and his encouragement of this music based on the regional dialect - langue d'oc - and favoured by the aristocracy was extensive.
www.gitesandmore.co.uk /Aquitaine.htm   (1587 words)

  
 Aquitaine: French feudal coins
From Demey, “William, duke of Aquitaine.., count of Macon and Bourges by God’s graces, proposed to Bernon, about of Baume-les-Messieurs and Gigny, to found a house of prayer on one of his estates.
Henry was welcomed in Aquitaine and their son, Richard, came ultimately to have control of Aquitaine.
When Henry II of England assumed control of Aquitaine, as a result of his own strength and an alliance with Barcelona, he pressured Raymond V such that Raymond was forced to recognize Angevin overlordship in 1173.
home.eckerd.edu /~oberhot/feud-aquitaine.htm   (2558 words)

  
 Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine [actually ‘Alia-Aenor’, meaning ‘the other Aenor’], the eldest of three children, was born in France [possibly in the Chateau de Belin, near Bordeaux] in 1122.
She was the daughter of William X [Guillaume X], the last duke of Aquitaine [and count of Poitiers] and the tenth duke of that name to inherit the duchy of Aquitaine.
Latter that year, Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henri Plantagenêt, count of Anjou and duke of Normandy, who was born in Le Mans, France, in March 1133.
www.french-at-a-touch.com /French_History/eleanor_of_aquitaine.htm   (1098 words)

  
 Eleanor of Aquitaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Her father was William, styled the Toulousan, of Aquitaine, the tenth duke of that name to inherit the Aquitaine; not surprisingly, William X was the son of Eleanor's living grandfather, William IX, styled the Troubadour.
Another William, Count of Angouleme, kidnapped Emma before the nuptial negotiations were complete and successfully married her, to the relief of his peers.
The 11th and 12th century-- especially in and around the Aquitaine -- had seen a number of formidable women who wielded dynastic power well and in their own right, and Eleanor was related to most of them.
www.lynnabbey.com /html/eleanor_of_aquitaine.htm   (2215 words)

  
 Durgan
* William III Duke Of Aquitaine was born in 915 in Poitiers, Vienna, France.
* William V duke Of Aquitaine was born in 969 in Poiter France.
* William VIII of Aquitaine was born in 1020 in Acquitaine, France.
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 William X of Aquitaine biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
April 9, 1137), nicknamed the Saint was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers as William VIII of Poitiers between 1126 and 1137.
He was the son of William, the Troubador by his repudiated wife, Philippa of Toulouse.
Despite his love of the arts, William was not a peaceful man, and was frequently involved in conflicts with the neighbouring Normandy (which he raided in 1136) and France.
www.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 /William_X_of_Aquitaine.html   (313 words)

  
 William I of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William I (died 6 July 918), called the Pious, was the Count of Auvergne from 886 and Duke of Aquitaine from 893, succeeding the Poitevin ruler Ebalus Manser.
William was the son of the Bernard II of Auvergne and Ermengard.
William required no control over the abbey and established that the Cluniac house was responsible directly to the pope (see Clunian reforms).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_I_of_Aquitaine   (286 words)

  
 Hour Bonus #7 - Williamsiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William the Conqueror was a true triviaphile, and his commissioning of the Domesday Booke proves it.
William of Orange had a legal dilemma when he tried to accept the Crown of England....
According to William of Malmesbury, William IX of Aquitaine (Eleanor of Aquitane's granddad) had the idea to endow a rather unique Abbey.
wso.williams.edu:8000 /orgs/trivia/snapper/hours/williams.html   (369 words)

  
 Langued'oc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William was a younger son of Sancho Mitarra, Duke of Gascony.
A region on the northern perimeter of Aquitaine, between Bourbonnais to the northeast and Guyenne to the south.
William is remembered as a member of Charlemagne's Court, and as a great (and successful) campaigner against the Muslims in Spain.
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 William V of Aquitaine (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
'''William V of Aquitaine''' (969-January 30 1030), nicknamed the Great, was Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers as William II of Poitiers.
William was the son of William IV of Aquitaine by his wife Emma of Blois.
Through his descendant, Eleanor of Aquitaine, he is an ancestor of the present-day British royal family.
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 Medieval Royalty - Person Page 2
William was born at County of Poitou, circa 915.
William Audelin was the son of Henry Beauclerk I and Matilda of Scotland.
William Audelin received the homage of his future vessels in January 1120 at Duchy of Normandy.
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 aquitaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father in 1137, the same year in which she was married to Louis VII of France.
Eleanor continued to be prominent in public affairs until she retired to the abbey in Fontevrault, France, where she died on April 1, 1204.
Son of William IX; at death betrothed his daughter to Louis VII of France, thus uniting France and Aquitaine.
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 ALA | Eleanor of Aquitaine
Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine is sitting on a cloud surrounded by friends and family, waiting for the arrival of her second husband, King Henry II of England.
William Shakespeare wrote plays about several Henrys, but he never wrote one about Henry II, and, in the book, Eleanor was quite unhappy with him.
Meltzer presents brief biographies of 10 queens, including Eleanor of Aquitaine, who were determined to succeed in the male-dominated world in which they lived.
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 William
William is the modern English form of a Norman name, Willelm, comming from the Germanic name Wilhelm, or Willahelm.
William was a later Germanic name and did not appear in England in the Anglo-Saxon period.
It was brought to the island with William the Conqueror and the Norman French in 1066.
www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/w/william.html   (436 words)

  
 ANISTORITON: Internet Messages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unfortunately, no. Though William IX was among the most colorful characters in history, most of the historical interest passed to his son William.
William IX, being a true Casanova, who wrote and sang songs about his romantic conquests, took his overly philosophical and religious wife as one might expect.
Given the similarity of the name of Aimar to the husband of Dangeruese, I would not be surprised if she were not the mother instead of Philipa, but this is not documented and is pure conjecture on my part.
www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/m973.htm   (274 words)

  
 Eleanor of Aquitaine, in transition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
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 Count of Poitiers
Among the men who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of the Aquitaine) are:
William Plantagenet (1153-1156) son of Henry II of England
John, Duke of Berry (1340-1416) son of John II of France
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 William of aquitaine (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William's and Aenor's marriage had been arranged by his father, William IX of Aquitaine the Troubador, and her mother, Dangereuse, William IX's long-time mistress.
Her father was William, styled the Toulousan, of Aquitaine, the tenth duke of that name to inherit the Aquitaine; not surprisingly, William X was the son of Eleanor's living grandfather, William IX...
Duke William X of Aquitaine Family 1: Louis VII the Younger, King of France Marriage 1137 Divorce Margaret of France.
www.setiathome-nrw.de.cob-web.org:8888 /williamofaquitaine-4205   (271 words)

  
 The Musical Influence of Eleanor of Aquitaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most significant historical figures of the middle ages.
In 1137, at the age of fifteen, she inherited the duchy of Aquitaine, which comprised nearly one-third of France; this ensured her a unique existence as a politically powerful woman of the middle ages.
Richard the Lion-Hearted, was a troubadour himself, and her two daughters from Louis, Marie and Aelis helped to spread the music of the trouveres throughout northern France once the troubadour movement started to fall out of favor in the thirteenth century.
www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL242/johnspa1.htm   (897 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Eleanor of Aquitaine
She was born around 1122 in either Bordeaux or the castle at Belin, the elder daughter of Duke William X of Aquitaine.
She lived until the age of 82 and was to hold a constant reign of power over both her husbands and her children.
Eleanor was already heavily pregnant at the wedding; a son and heir William was born in August.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A622595   (848 words)

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