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Apr 16, 2024 · Role In: Crusades. William IX (born Oct. 22, 1071—died Feb. 10, 1127, Poitiers, Fr.) was a medieval troubadour, count of Poitiers and duke of Aquitaine and of Gascony (1086–1127), son of William VIII and grandfather of the famous Eleanor of Aquitaine. William IX spent most of his life in warfare, including leading an unsuccessful Crusade to ...
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Oct 10, 2022 · William IX, Count of Poitiers was the firstborn child of the future Henry II, King of England and Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitiers in her own right. He would have been King of England had he survived his father. William was born on August 17, 1153, in the County of Poitiers, now part of France, and was styled Count of ...
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Feb 22, 2023 · William IX was the first son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, born in Normandy in 1153. He died at either 2 or 3 years old due to a seizure at Wallingford Castle and was buried in Reading Abbey. At the time of his death, he was Count of Poitiers, a title given to him by his mother.
William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers. ... Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers primary name: William X ... Free entry Great Russell Street ...
Brief Life History of William. When William IX Count of Poitiers was born on 17 August 1153, in Rouen, France, his father, Henry II King of England, was 20 and his mother, Aliénor d’Aquitaine Reine des Francs puis Reine d’Angleterre, was 30. He died on 2 December 1156, in Wallingford, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 3 ...
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, Ninth Duke of Aquitaine, Seventh Count of. Poitiers ( 1071-1127) was one of the most powerful feudal lords of his day. Several times excommunicated, defiantly adulterous, greedy, profane, and violent, he also possessed a generous wit ranging from the broadly obscene to the. gently ironic.
