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Persoonlijke gegevens Duke William IV of Aquitaine 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 937 in France.
• Hij is overleden op 3 februari 994 in Saint Maixent Lecole, Deux-Sevres, Poitou-Charentes, France, hij was toen 57 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William III of Aquitaine en Geirlaug (Adela) of Normandy

Gezin van Duke William IV of Aquitaine

Hij is getrouwd met Duchess Emma Blois.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Ebles of Poitiers  ± 967-± 997 
2. William V of Aquitaine  975-1030 

Notities over Duke William IV of Aquitaine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV,_Duke_of_Aquitaine

 

William IV (937 – 3 February 994^[1]), called Fierebras or Fierebrace (meaning "Proud Arm", from the French Fier-à-bras or Fièrebrace, in turn from the Latin Ferox brachium), was the Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou from 963 to his retirement in 990.

William's father, William III, abdicated to the abbey of Saint-Cyprien in Poitiers and left the government to Fierebras. His mother was Gerloc, the daughter of Duke Rollo of Normandy. His sister was Adelaide, wife of Hugh Capet, the king against whom William later battled for his duchy. His early reign was characterised by many wars. He fought frequently against the counts of Anjou, the first time against Geoffrey Greymantle, who had taken Loudun.

In 988, he went to war with the newly elected king of France, Hugh Capet, whom he refused to recognise. Capet had been granted Aquitaine by King Lothair before the latter had been reconciled to William's father. Capet renewed his claim on the great duchy and invaded it that year. A royal army was defeated on the plain of the Loire Valley. William sheltered the young Louis, the son of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, the last legitimate Carolingian heir. He opened the palace of Poitiers to him and treated him as royalty, regarding him as the true heir to the French throne.

In 968, he married Emma or Emmeline,^[2] daughter of Theobald I of Blois and Luitgarde of Vermandois. Their marriage was stormy, in part because of William's indulgence in the pursuit of women and, a hunting aficionado, wild animals. She banished his paramours, they separated twice for long periods, and finally he retired to a monastery, as his father had done, leaving Emma to rule Aquitaine in the name of their son William until 1004. Their second son, Ebles, died sometime after 997.

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