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  Eleanor of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The oldest of three children, her 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 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.
She became heiress to Aquitaine, the largest and richest of the provinces that would become modern France, when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
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 LOUIS IV. OF FRANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS IV. OF FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On the death of William Longsword, duke of Normandy, who had been assassinated by Arnulf, count of Flanders, in December 942, Louis endeavoured to obtain possession of the person of Richard, the young son and heir of the late duke.
Shortly afterwards (1126), Louis was able to overawe the great count of Aquitaine, William IX., and force his vassal, the count of Auvergne, to treat justly the bishop of Clermont.
The death of William Clito, and a savage war with his own seneschal, prevented Louis from effectually resenting this attitude; but Thierry of Alsace, the new count, consented in 1128 to receive from Louis the investiture of all his French fiefs, and henceforth lived on good terms with him.
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
William, however, was killed in battle in 1128, otherwise he would have inherited England in 1135, instead of his cousin Stephen of Blois.
William VIII of Aquitaine acquired the Duchy of Gascony in 1052.
Duke William V had three wives, and subsequent Dukes were descendants of William VIII, son of William V and Agnes of Burgundy.
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 ALBI - LoveToKnow Article on ALBI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The preachers Raoul Ardent in 1101 and Robert of Arbrissel in 1114 were summoned to the districts of the Agenais and, the Toulousain to combat the heretical propaganda.
But, protected by William IX., duke of Aquitaine, and soon by a great part of the southern nobility, the heretics gained ground in the south, and in 1119 the council of Toulouse jn vain ordered the secular powers to assist the ecclesiastical authority in quelling the heresy.
The people were attached, to the bans hommes, whose asceticism imposed upon the masses, and the.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
Hist.: Script.", IX, 392), seems to imply that the crusade was instigated by the Byzantine emperor, but this has been proved false (Chalandon, Essai sur le règne d'Alexis Comnène, appendix), Alexius having merely sought to enroll five hundred Flemish knights in the imperial army (Anna Comnena, Alexiad., VII, iv).
The honour of initiating the crusade has also been attributed to Peter the Hermit, a recluse of Picardy, who, after a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and a vision in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, went to Urban II and was commissioned by him to preach the crusade.
In 1101 three expeditions crossed Europe under the leadership of Count Stephen of Blois, Duke William IX of Aquitaine, and Welf IV, Duke of Bavaria.
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 CRUSADES Catholic Encyclopedia
The most detailed account of the Christian states is that in the chronicle of William, Archbishop of Tyre (d.
At news of this, Louis VII of France, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, and a great number of knights, moved by the exhortations of St. Bernard, enlisted under the cross (Assembly of Vézelay, 31 March, 1146).
The Abbot of Clairvaux became the apostle of the crusade and conceived the idea of urging all Europe to attack the infidels simultaneously in Syria, in Spain, and beyond the Elbe.
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 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.
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 Lesbian Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Her niece was Queen of Spain from 1870 to 1873.
Note 48: She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, a first cousin once removed of Heinrich Heine, the poet.
Note 69: She was born in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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