Ancestral Trails 2016 » WILLIAM d'AQUITAINE VIII (1025-1086)

Personal data WILLIAM d'AQUITAINE VIII 

• He was born in the year 1025 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, Aquitaine, France.
• Title: Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou
• (Alternative Name) : Geoffrey William VI of Poitou, Pierre-Guillaume.
• He died on September 25, 1086 in Chateau de Chizay, Poitou, France, he was 61 years old.
• A child of WILLIAM d'AQUITAINE and AGNES de BURGUNDY

Household of WILLIAM d'AQUITAINE VIII

(1) He is married to HILDEGARDE CAPET de BURGUNDY.

They got married in the year 1068 at Poitou, Aquitaine, France, he was 43 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Agnes d'AQUITAINE  1072-1097
2. WILLIAM d'AQUITAINE  1071-???? 

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Matilda De la MARCHE.

They got married in the year 1058, he was 33 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Agnes d'AQUITAINE  1060-1097




(3) He is married to ERMENSINDE de LONGWY.

They got married in the year 1047 at Poitou, Aquitaine, France, he was 22 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Agnes d'AQUITAINE  1052-> 1089 
2. CLEMENTIA d'AQUITAINE  1059-1142 


• The couple has common ancestors.



(4) He is married to Anne de PERIGORD.

They got married in the year 1044, he was 19 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Agnes d'AQUITAINE  1052-> 1089 




Notes about WILLIAM d'AQUITAINE VIII

William VII (born Peter, Pierre-Guillaume) (1023 - autumn 1058), called the Eagle (Aigret) or the Bold (le Hardi), was the duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou (as William V) between 1039 and his death, following his half-brother Odo.

William was the third son of William V of Aquitaine, the eldest by his third wife, Agnes of Burgundy. He was brother-in-law of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, who married his sister Agnes. His mother remarried to Geoffrey Martel, Count of Anjou, during his reign. William won his patrimony in a war with his half-brother Odo, who was killed in battle at Mauzé. He did not, however, succeed in occupying Gascony.

Geoffrey Martel refused to concede to him the territories gained in the reigns of his predecessors. William set to work regaining his patrimony by force of arms. He was besieging Geoffrey in Saumur when he died of dysentery.

He was married to Ermesinde, of unknown origins. Two daughters have been hypothesized to be children of this couple:

Clementia, who married Conrad I of Luxembourg
Agnes, who married Peter I of Savoy.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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