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Apr 24, 2018 · He was born in Aquitaine, France, on 22 October 1071, son of William VIII of Aquitaine and Hildegarde of Burgundy 1 2. Titles. In 1086, William succeeded his father as William, IX Duke of Aquitaine 1, and William, VII Count of Poitou 1. Family. In 1089 William married Ermengarde d’Anjou and divorced her a year later 1.
The first known troubadour is Guilhem de Peiteu, in translation: William IX (as duke of Aquitaine) or VII (as count of Poitiers), or William IX of Poitiers. Born in 1071, he died in 1127, lord of a larger, richer and more populated land than the king of France, Louis VI. His maternal language was a romance dialect part of what is called today ...
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. He was also one of the leaders of the crusade of 1101 and one of the first medieval vernacular poets.
The Duke of Aquitaine ( Occitan: Duc d'Aquitània, French: Duc d'Aquitaine, IPA: [dyk dakitɛn]) was the ruler of the medieval region of Aquitaine (not to be confused with modern-day Aquitaine) under the supremacy of Frankish, English, and later French kings . As successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom (418–721), Aquitania (Aquitaine) and ...
Apr 26, 2022 · William (17 August 1153 – April 1156) was the first child of Henry Plantagenet (later Henry II of England) and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was born in Normandy on the same day that his father's rival, Eustace IV of Boulogne, died. William was a younger maternal half-brother of Marie de Champagne and Alix of France.
William 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 capital. Later that same year, 1126, his father William IX mortgaged Toulouse to his wife's cousin, Bertrand of Toulouse.
Dec 1, 1993 · It has been pointed out that the bishop of Saintes was then neither young nor named William, and that the Latin could equally mean that the absent duke's defenders included "William - a most eloquent young man - the bishop of Saintes and several other bishops and abbots from Aquitaine" (see F. Villard, 'Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine et le concile de ...
