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  Po   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Parents: William I of Poitou and Adela of Normandy
Parents: William VI of Poitou and Aldegarde of Burgundy
Parents: William VII of Poitou and Phillipa of Toulouse
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 William II of England Summary
William Rufus inherited the Anglo-Norman settlement whose details are reflected in Domesday Book (1086), a survey that could not have been undertaken anywhere in Europe at that time and a signal of the control of the monarchy; but he did not inherit William's charisma nor political skills.
William was able to claim the revenues of the archbishopric of Canterbury as long as Anselm remained in exile, and Anselm remained in exile until the reign of William's successor, Henry I.
William's body was abandoned by the nobles at the place where he fell, because the law and order of the kingdom died with the king, and they had to flee to their English or Norman estates to secure their interests.
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 Duke - meaning of word
The heir apparent to the Belgian throne is styled Duke of Brabant.
Under the 20 November, 1917, Letters Patent of King George V of the United Kingdom, the titular dignity of Prince/Princess and the style Royal Highness are restricted to the sons of a Sovereign, the sons of a Sovereign's sons, and the eldest living son of the eldest son of a Prince of Wales.
The dissolution tendency was counteracted by the appointment of younger sons of the monarchs ''(royal dukes)'' as military governors of the important border provinces, which however also soon developed into hereditary duchies and a source of intrigues against the monarch (see for instance: History of Schleswig-Holstein).
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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.
Duke William should have remarried immediately, but didn't make plans until 1136, when the husband of the woman he'd selected, Emma of Limoges, was providentially widowed.
Another William, Count of Angouleme, kidnapped Emma before the nuptial negotiations were complete and successfully married her, to the relief of his peers.
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 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.
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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 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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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: La Rochelle
In 1573 the city successfully resisted the Duke of Anjou, brother of Charles IX, and remained the chief fortress of the Huguenots in France.
In a Bull of Nicholas V, 1451, it is said that the cathedral of Saintes was the second church ever dedicated to St. Peter.
John the Baptist; William V, Duke of Aquitaine, had the relic exposed, and King Robert and Queen Constance inspected it.
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 William the Conqueror - Descendants
Earl of Flanders, and was father of Baldwin V Count of Flanders, whose dau.
William, Duke of Normandy, and became afterwards on the Conquest of England, Queen of England.
WILLIAM, Earl of Flanders, who was protected by Philip le Gros, King of France, and received from that monarch, the hand of Joan, sister of his Queen Alice, and dau.
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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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 Henry V (of England) - MSN Encarta
Henry V (of England) (1387-1422), king of England (1413-1422), known for his victorious campaigns against France, born at Monmouth in August or September 1387.
On succeeding to the throne in 1413, Henry V restored Sir Henry Percy's son to his lands and titles; he also honourably reburied at Westminster Abbey the remains of Richard II, who had been deposed by Henry IV and had died in prison during the latter's reign.
Laying claim to the former Plantagenet possession of Aquitaine, the old Angevin lands in northern France, and other territories besides, Henry began his war against France in 1415, winning in that same year the Battle of Agincourt.
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 Royal Ancestry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Married William I, Duke of Normandy, Conqueror and King of England.
Eleanore, Countess of Poitou, Duchess of Aquitaine, dau.
Sir William Gascoigne, Knt., of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, son of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, and Jane de Neville of Oversley and Wormsley.
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 Anjou
Duke of Anjou and count of Maine and Provence (1384-1417) and titular king of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem.
Duke of Anjou and Touraine, count of Maine and Provence, titular king of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem (1417-34).
Born in France, she was the daughter of Rene I, duke of Anjou, and was married to Henry in 1445 to confirm a truce between France and England during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453).
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 Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies
Eleanor was the daughter and heiress of William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitiers, who possessed one of the largest domains in France—larger, in fact, than those held by the French king.
Richard was the third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and he was given the Duchy of Aquitaine, his mother's inheritance, at the age of 11 and was enthroned as duke at Poitiers in 1172.
Duke Geoffrey Plantagenet de Brittany-[18630] was born on 9-23-1158 and died in 8-1186 in Paris, France at age 27.
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 of Aquitaine Family Genealogy
was born in 1099 in Aquitaine and died on 19 Apr 1137 in France.
was born in 1123 in Chateau De Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine and died on 31 Mar 1204 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine.
William Peveril, constable and grandson of the original builder, fled from the Castle to his monastery at Lenton disguised as a monk before going abroad.
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 30TH GENERATION
He was married to Eleanor of AQUITAINE Queen of England* on 18 May 1152 in Bordeau, France.
WILLIAM PLANTAGENET was born about 1155 in Bermondsey, England- son of Henry II.
HENRY PLANTAGENET Duke of Aquitaine was born about 1156 in Bermondsey, England - son of Henry II.
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 Henry the Second King of England
ALBERT the Great, Duke of Brunswick, a renowned soldier, who, at the head of the Bohemians and Brunswickers, defeated a powerful army of Hungarians, and captured their king.
Henry Burewin 1., Prince of Wenden, and from this marriage derived the House of Mecklenburg, and Queen Charlotte, consort of George III, of England.
1st, to William of Normandy, Count of Flanders, and 2ndly, to Theodore, of Alsatea, Count of Flanders.
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 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.
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine, in transition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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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 Ademar of Chabannes on John the Baptist
When Duke William heard this on his return from Rome after Easter, he was filled with joy and decreed that the holy head should be shown to the people.
The glorious duke recognized the honor of God and, at the urging of Odilo the most holy abbot of Cluny, renewed the strict practice of the rule of St. Benedict at the monastery of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
Meanwhile, after the head of St. John had been adequately exhibited to the populace, it was returned on orders of duke William to the pyramid in which it had originally been housed, in the interior of which it was suspended in its new reliquary by silver chains.
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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.
He was present when Prince Louis, son of King Louis VI of France, learned that he was to marry Eleanor, daughter of the late William, duke of Aquitaine.
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.
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 Descendants of I Duke Of Normandy William
Descendants of I Duke Of Normandy William, The Conqueror
William was the illegitimate son of Robert I, duke of Normandy and Arletta, a tanner's daughter.
COUNTESS OF SURREY GUNDRED8 (I DUKE OF NORMANDY7 WILLIAM, THE
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 Langued'oc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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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 reagenealogy - pafg60 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine [Parents] was born about 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Guinne, France.
William X The Toulousan of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine was born in 1099 in Toulouse, France.
Geoffrey V, "The Fair " Plantagenet, Count of Anjou And Maine [Parents] was born on 24 Aug 1113.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Emperor Henry GERMANY, IV ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
After negotiations with Welf IV, the new duke (as Welf I) of Bavaria, and with Rudolf, the duke of Swabia, Henry was forced to grant immunity to the rebels in 1073 and had to agree to the razing of the royal Harz Castle in the final peace treaty inFebruary 1074.
"The marriage, arranged by Pope Urban II in 1089, of the 17-year-old Welf V of Bavaria with the 43-year-old countess Matilda of Tuscany, a zealous adherent of the cause of reform in the church, allied Henry's opponents in southern Germany and Italy.
The Emperor found himself cut off from Germany and besieged in a corner of northeastern Italy...It was not until Welf V separated from Matilda, in 1095, and his father, the deposed Welf IV, was once more granted Bavaria as a fief, in 1096, that Henry was able to return to Germany (1097).
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 1004: The year 1004 - events and people France England
King and Holy Roman Emperor, son of Duke Henry II (the Quarrelsome) and of the Burgundian Princess Gisela; b.
the Pious or Henry the Lame, Duke of Bavaria and Holy Roman Emperor, was the last of the Saxon dynasty of emperors.
At the end of this conflict Otto William was recognized as 'count' of Burgundy, even through this predated the idea of the County of Burgundy, or the lands east of the Saone.
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 William VI of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William VI (1004 – March 1038), called the Fat, was Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou (as William IV) between 1030 and his death.
He was the eldest son of William V the Great by his first wife, Almodis of Gévaudun.
Throughout his reign he had to face the hostility of his stepmother, Agnes of Burgundy, the third wife of his father, who had remarried to Geoffrey Martel, then count of Vendôme.
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 Greg Bard's Genealogical Records
And until a primary source is consulted, the listing of "Williams" between William I, the son of Ebles and Eleonore that marries Henry Plantagenet may even be incorrect here.
dit Tete d'Etoupe, Ct of Poitou, Auvergne and Limoges, Duke of Aquitaine.
With him the numbering confusion begins; he was the first Duke William of Aquitaine of his family, but there had been two Duke Williams of the house of Autun; thus the ordinal confusion.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. William of Maleval
The life by Theodobald, or Thibault, given by the Bollandists is unreliable, having been interpolated with the lives of at least two other Williams.
After a number of chapters in which he is confused with St. William of Gellone, Duke of Aquitaine, we are told that he went to Rome, where he had an interview with Eugene III, who ordered him to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in penance for his sins.
Though Theodobald's account of his interview with the pope does not carry conviction, the fact of this visit and his subsequent pilgrimage to Jerusalem is supported by excerpts from the older life, which are preserved by responsories and antiphons in his Office.
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 Gilles de Rais: The Pious Monster
William became king of England, but also retained his role as Duke of Normandy.
By the time Henry V took the throne of England in 1413, England, Scotland and Wales were at peace and the madness of Charles VI had caused a major power struggle across the Channel.
Among them the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Nevers, brothers of the Duke of Burgundy, the Duke of Alencon, the Duke of Bar, Charles d’Albret, Constable of France, the counts of Marle, Roucy, Dalm, Vaudemot and Dammartin.
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