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  William X of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William X of Aquitaine (1099 – 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.
William was born in Toulouse during the brief period when his parents ruled the capitol.
Despite his love of the arts, William was not a peaceful man, and was frequently involved in conflicts with neighbouring Normandy (which he raided in 1136) and France.
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 TREEFIC Demo: Royal Families AD 534 - 1992: Timeline 1000 to 1200   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adela born to Matilda of Flanders and William I the Conqueror at Normandy,France.
Constance born to Matilda of Flanders and William I the Conqueror at Normandy,France.
Eleanor of Aquitaine born to William X of Aquitaine at Bordeaux/Berlin.
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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 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.
William fought mostly skirmishes in Anatolia and was frequently defeated.
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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 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.
William X died on Good Friday, 9 April 1137 while on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain.
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 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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 ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (c... - Online Information article about ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (c...
WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. Ger.
Louis, who had hoped that Aquitaine would descend to his daughters, was mortified and alarmed by the Angevin marriage; all the more so when Henry of Anjou succeeded to the English crown in 1154.
To both her sons the popularity which she enjoyed in Aquitaine was most valuable.
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 (Elizabeth AMORY - Catherine of ARAGON )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William, X Duke of AQUITAINE (____ - ____)
William I, Duke of AQUITAINE (____ - ____)
William, IX Duke of AQUITAINE (____ - ____)
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 Malaspina Great Books - Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)   (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 Aenor Aimery, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte of Chatellerault and a woman named Dangerosa.
William and Aenor's marriage had been arranged by his father and her mother, as Dangerosa was the long-time mistress of William IX of Aquitaine, the Troubador.
Her father was William X the Toulousan of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine, b.
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 Aquitaine: French feudal coins
William X had a troubled reign as duke of Aquitaine, and was ultimately unsuccessful, in that he did not succeed in securing succession for his line.
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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 29th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William d'Aquitaine X, Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers was born 1099 in Toulouse, France.
BIOGRAPHY: William X was the duke of Aquitaine and of Gascony from 1127 to 1137 and the son of William IX.
His daughter, Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherited all his lands and, first, through her marriage to Louis VII of France, united Aquitaine with the Capetian line and, then, through her marriage to Duke Henry of Normandy (the future Henry II of England) united Aquitaine to the Plantagenet line.
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 Aquitaine
Louis VII, King of France, 22 July 1137 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, div.
Henry II "Curtmantle", King of England, 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, d.
William was also the 8th Duke of Aquitaine, and therefore appears as William VIII of Aquitaine in many sources.
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Eight months later he married Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was at least ten years his senior, the former wife of Louis VII of France whom Louis had divorced, ostensibly on grounds of consanguinity, but really because she had provided no male heir.
William had long had designs on Northumberland and Cumbria which he believed were his inheritance.
The sons were supported by their mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, from whom Henry had drifted apart by the late 1160s.
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 ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE - LoveToKnow Article on ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1122I 204), wife of the English king Henry II., was the daughter and heiress of Duke William X. of Aquitaine, whom she succeeded in April 1137.
The duchy of Aquitaine required a strong ruler, and the union.
Although a woman of strong passions and great abilities she is, historically, less important as an individual than as the heiress of Aquitaine, a part of which was, through her second marriage, united to EngJand for some four hundred years.
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 Habitat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The county of Perigord is situated in central Aquitaine, and is neighboured to the north by Angouleme and the Limousin, to the east by Quercy and Aquitaine, to the south by Gascony and to the west by Saintonge.
Alis was fostered at the court of Duke William X of Aquitaine.
The Aquitaine is favoured by hilly or mountainous terrain in the east and south, with fertile plains, high tors and dense woodlands in Perigord and Poitou, and flat sandy wastes and scrubland in Gascony.
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 William X of Aquitaine at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William X of Aquitaine (1099 — April 9, 1137), nicknamed the Saint was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers between 1126 and 1137.
He was the son of William, the Troubador by his repudiated wife, Philippa of Toulouse.
He married (Aenor) Eleanor of Châtellerault, daughter of his father's mistress, in 1121 and from her had three children: William Aigret, who died young; the heiress Eleanor of Aquitaine; and Petronilla, who married Raoul, the count of Valentinois.
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 AQUINO - LoveToKnow Article on AQUINO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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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 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.
The brother of William X married the heiress of the Crusader Principality of Antioch.
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Upon William's death in 1137 she inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine and in July 1137 married the heir to the French throne, who succeeded his father, Louis VI, the following month.
The sons were William, who died at the age of three; Henry; Richard, the Lion-Heart; Geoffrey, duke of Brittany; and John, surnamed Lackland until, having outlived all his brothers, he inherited, in 1199, the crown of England.
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Her grandfather, the ninth Duke William of Aquitaine, was one of the very first troubadours, writing erotic and courtly poetry in the dialect of southern France.
Eleanor was the only child of William X of Aquitaine.
William had decided that Eleanor's principality could not survive unless she was married to a lord of sufficient prestige and power.
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine, in transition
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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 Flash Cards - English Monarchs
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the daughter of whom?
Charles II Eleanor of Aquitaine was a divorcee of whom?
Charles I, William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Stafford,Thomas Wentworth
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 30TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
WILLIAM X of AQUITANE Duke* was born in 1099 in France (VIII Count of Poitou) - son of William.
He died on 9 Apr 1137 in France (William X Duke of Aquitaine).
Petronilla of AQUITAINE was born before 1130 in Aquitaine.
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 Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most fascinating personalities of Medieval Europe.
She is one of the few women of antiquity who have atoned for an ill-spent youth by a wise and benevolent old age.
Born around 1122, Eleanor was the daughter of William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitiers.
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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.
In 1137, the year she succeeded to the Duchy of Aquitaine [The duchy was located in Southwest France.
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 New Catholic Dictionary: Eleanor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France, and Queen of England, born c.
She was the daughter of William X of Aquitaine and Ænor of Châtelheraut, and in 1137 was married to Louis VII of France, thus adding the whole of southwestern Gaul from the borders of Brittany and Anjou to the Pyrenees, to the French kingdom.
Two of her sons, Richard and John, became kings of England and two of her daughters, queens, one of Castile and the other of Sicily.
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 The Catholic Encyclopedia - St. Bernard of Clairvaux
The same year Bernard was again at the Council of Reims at the side of Innocent II, whose oracle he was; and then in Aquitaine where he succeeded for the time in detaching William, Count of Poitiers, from the cause of Anacletus.
This would have died out of itself if William could have been detached from the cause of Gerard, who had usurped the See of Bordeaux and retained that of Angoulême. Bernard invited William to the Mass which he celebrated in the Church of La Couldre.
At the moment of the Communion, placing the Sacred Host upon the paten, he went to the door of the church where William was, and pointing to the Host, he adjured the Duke not to despise God as he did His servants.
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 PlanetPapers - Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine
In the year 1122, soon to be Duke William X of Aquitaine was informed that his bride of one year, Aenor, daughter of the Viscount Aimery, had bore him a daughter.
Since Aquitaine consisted of more than a third of the entire land of France, she was a heiress of some esteem.
Eleanor swallowed her pride and paid homage to Philip for her Aquitaine, so as to not give him or Arthur of Brittany—her grandson who claimed the throne of England--an excuse to attack her lands as well.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Queen Eleanor Aquitaine ENGLAND ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
She was the daughter of the future William X of Aquitaine and his wife Aenor of Chatellerault, and grand-daughter of the duke of Aquitaine then reigning, William IX."
Afterwards, at the nuptial banquet in the Ombriere palace, Louis wore the ducal coronet of Aquitaine.
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).
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