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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1100 in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1161 in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, hij was toen 61 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William de MONTPELLIER en Ermisende de MELGUEIL

Gezin van William de MONTPELLIER VI

Hij is getrouwd met Sybilia del VASTO.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1129 te Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. William de MONTPELLIER  1131-1172 

Notities over William de MONTPELLIER VI

William VI or Guillem VI (died 1161) was the eldest son of William V and his wife Ermessende, daughter of Count Peter II of Melgueil. William succeeded his father in the lordship of Montpellier in 1121, while still a minor, under his mother's guardianship. He suppressed a revolt of the bourgeoisie in 1143 and participated in several military campaigns of the Reconquista in Spain (1134, 1146-47). He also increased the public character of the lordship in Montpellier and supported the growth of its trade.

Marriage and alliance with Aragon
William VI's wife was named Sibylla, of Catalan origin. (According to documents adduced at the annulment of the marriage of Marie of Montpellier, her great-granddaughter, she was the daughter of Boniface del Vasto and therefore the sister of Manfred I of Saluzzo, but this cannot be confirmed.) The marriage was less an alliance between William and a minor aristocratic family from Catalonia than a tightening of ties with the House of Barcelona, soon to rule a complex of territories north and south of the Pyrenees. The support the count of Toulouse gave to the rebels of 1141-43 was part of the larger rivalry between Toulouse and Aragon (Barcelona) for power in Occitania, a conflict in which the lords of Montpellier gradually built up an alliance with the Aragonese, even though their overlords, the counts of Melgueil, with whom they were related, were Toulousain partisans.

William VI and Sibylla had five sons and all except Bernard William, who died before 1172, played a prominent roled in Occitan politics.
The eldest,
William VII, succeeded his father;
Raymond William became a monk and later a bishop; another
William, who became co-lord of Tortosa after its conquest, married Ermessende of Castries, joined the Templars in 1157, vowed to go on crusade to the Holy Land for a year, and there died; and
Gui Guerrejat later served regent for his nephews, the sons of William VII.

William VI and Sibylla also had three daughters:
Guilelme or Guillemette who married first Bernard IV of Melgueil and later Viscount Bernard Ato V;
Alais (or Azalais), who married Eble III of Ventadorn; and
Ermessende, who married Raymond Stephen of Servian.

Guillemette's first marriage was part of an agreement (convenientia) of 1120 between her father and husband by which the former gained control of the Melgorian mint when Bernard mortgaged it to him for 7,000 sous.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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