Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitiers William VIII (Guillaume)

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Founded the Priory of St. Gemma in Xaintonge. Some sources say died 1021, but no Duke of Aquitaine died then according to Stammtafeln.

William married of Burgundy Hildegard about 1069. Hildegard (daughter of Robert I "The Old" Capet, Duke of Burgundy and Ermengarde Blanche d'Anjou) was born in 1050; died after 1104. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Duke of Aquitaine William IX "The Troubadour" was born on 22 Oct 1071 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 10 Feb 1126 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

William married Mathide de la Marche about 1058. Mathide (daughter of Hugh V "The Fair" de Lusignan and Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges Toulouse and Barcelona) was born in 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Agnes de Blois was born in 1059; died in 1080.

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Some sources say he resigned the Dukedom for his son in 1021, but this is not indicated in Stammtafeln. Some sources also say died 1025, but Stammtafeln indicates 1030.

William married Comtesse de Bourgogne Agnes de Macon in 1018 in France. Agnes (daughter of Otto, King of Lombardy I and of Rheims Ermentrude de Roucy) was born in 995 in of Bourgogne, France; died on 10 Nov 1068. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Aquitaine. abdicated 993. Also known as Fierabras.

William married of Blois Emma about 968. Emma (daughter of Count of Champagne I Theobald and Luitgarda de Vermandois) was born about 945 in of France; died after 27 Dec 1003. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (94:33) calls him King of Lombardy and Count of Burgundy and Macon. This is also the source for his 2nd marriage to ADELAIDE/BLANCHE OF ANJOU.

Quoting from Christopher Cope's "The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy": "CONRAD was succeeded as King of Burgundy in 993 by his son Rudolph III. In 1006 the EMPORER HENRY II siezed Basel and extracted a promise from Rudolph to name him as his heir. Rudolph was childless and HENRY was his oldest nephew; however the prospect was anethema in Burgundy to high and low alike, and when Otto William, the most powerful lord in the kingdom, raised the standard of revolt in 1016, many rallied to him; few Burgundians wished to be ruled by the alien Germans. But Otto William was more than a folk hero, he was a man of high ambition. A contemporary wrote of him, 'Though nomially a vassal of the King of Burgundy, Otto William was resolved to be soverign master of his own territories.' "Otto Willam whose mother was Burgundian, was the son and grandson of the last 'national' kings of Italy, now ousted by the OTTONIAN EMPORERS. He was initially Count of Macon and Count of Burgundy, which means he held the lands north and west of the Jura known today as Franche Compte. In 1002 he was chosen by the bishops and barons of the area to succeed his stepfather [Henry I Capet] as Duke of Burgundy, but he was expelled from the Duchy after a long conflict by the KING OF FRANCE, ROBERT CAPET. The latter's younger son, also ROBERT, became Duke of Burgundy, founding the junior branch of the Capetian dynasty...." "Unhappily Otto William divided his efforts between his ambitons in Italy and in Burgundy and was defeated in both - perhaps the first case of a Burgundian prince failing in Burgundy because of involvement in Italy. But he and his allies continued to defy Rudolph and to challenge HENRY's claims to the succession. Their efforts seemed rewarded when HENRY died in 1024, for his successor, CONRAD, THE FIRST FRANCONIAN EMPORER, had only a very distant claim of blood to the Burgundian throne. However, he had married one of Rudolph's nieces and in 1026 Otto William died, and so Rudolph set aside the rights of his [i.e. Rudolph's) nephew and heir ODO OF BLOIS [aka EUDES II, COUNT OF BLOIS AND CHAMPAIGN] and on his death-bed in 1032 he sent Burgundy's regalia to CONRAD."

Otto married of Rheims Ermentrude de Roucy about 978 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. Ermentrude (daughter of Count of Rheims and Roucy Renaud of Roucy, Count of Roucy and Alberade de Roucy) was born about 963 in Rheim, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died before 5 Mar 1005 in Macon, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Auvergne, Velay, Limousin. Duke of Aquitaine

William married Princess of Normandy Adele about 944 in Aquitaine, France. Adele (daughter of Duke of Normandy Robert (Rollo) Ragnvaldsson) was born about 910 in Normandy, France; died after 14 Oct 962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Europaische Stammtafeln Band II Tafel 42.

I married Luitgarda de Vermandois before 945. Luitgarda (daughter of Herbert de Vermandois, Count of Vermandois Count of Meaux and Count of Soissons II and Adele Capet) was born about 922 in of Vermandois, Normandy, France; died on 9 Feb 978; was buried in Matemoutier Abbe, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Deposed 963. Count of Aosta.

Adalbert married Countess of Burgundy Gerberge about 954 in Burgundy, France. Gerberge (daughter of Count of Macon Otto Letald and Countess of Challons Adelaide de Chalon) was born about 940 in Chalon, Italy; died about 989. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Renaud married Alberade de Roucy about 945 in Reims, Marne, France. Alberade (daughter of Duke of Lorraine Gilbert (Giselbert) of Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine & Count of Hainault and Gerberga of Saxony) was born in 930 in Lorraine, France; died on 15 Mar 973 in Burgandy, France; was buried in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]