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| | AQUINO - LoveToKnow Article on AQUINO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In 781 Charlemagne bestowed Aquitaine upon his ung son, Louis, and as Louis was generally described as a ag, Aquitaine is referred to during the Carolingian period a kingdom, and not as a duchy. |
 | | Charles then bestowed the chy upon William the Pious, count of Auvergne, the founder the abbey of Cluny, who was succeeded in 918 by his nephew, unt William II., who died in 926. |
 | | Williams duchy almost reached the limits of Roman Aquitania Prima and Secunda, but did not stretch sth of the Garonne, a district which was in the possession the Gascons. |
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