DEPOITOU, William Aigret

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• Relation to Me: 27 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Duke of Aquataine

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Birth:
St Jacques, Aquitaine, France

Died:
Saint Jacques De Compostelle, Spain

Guillaume married DE CHATELLERAULT, Aenor in 1121. Aenor (daughter of AIMERY, I and ISLE BOUCHARD, Dangereuse Maubergeonne) was born in 1103; died in Mar 1130 in Talmont, Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France; was buried in Nieul, Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: Mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who arguably became the most powerful woman in Europe of her generation.
• Relation to Me: 27 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Duchess of Aquitaine

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Birth:
De Chatellerault, Aquitaine, France

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Married:
Poitou, Aquitaine, France

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• Differentiator: Though his political and military achievements have a certain historical importance, he is best known as the earliest troubadour[1] — a vernacular lyric poet in the Occitan language — whose work survived.
• Relation to Me: 28 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou
• Name: William IX Aquitaine

Notes:

An anonymous 13th-century vida of William remembers him thus:

The Count of Poitiers was one of the most courtly men in the world and one of the greatest deceivers of women. He was a fine knight at arms, liberal in his womanizing, and a fine composer and singer of songs. He traveled much through the world, seducing women.

In a striking departure from the typical attitude toward women in the period, William seems to have held at least one woman in particularly high esteem, composing several poems in homage to this woman, who he refers to as midons (master):[8]

Every joy must abase itself,
and every might obey
in the presence of Midons, for the sweetness of her welcome,
for her beautiful and gentle look;
and a man who wins to the joy of her love
will live a hundred years.
The joy of her can make the sick man well again,
her wrath can make a well man die,

His frankness, wit and vivacity caused scandal and won admiration at the same time. He is among the first Romance vernacular poets of the Middle Ages, one of the founders of a tradition that would culminate in Dante, Petrarch, and François Villon. Ezra Pound mentions him in Canto VIII:

And Poictiers, you know, Guillaume Poictiers,
had brought the song up out of Spain
with the singers and viels...

In Spirit of Romance Pound also calls William IX "the most 'modern' of the troubadours":

Birth:
Poitiers, Aquitaine, France

Guillaume married MAUDE, Philippa in 1094 in France. Philippa (daughter of WILLIAM, IV and Living) was born on 22 Oct 1073 in Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France; died on 28 Nov 1118 in Abbey Fontevrault, Aquitaine, France; was buried in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Relation to Me: 28 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Toulouse
• Royalty & Nobility: Duchess Consort of Aquiitaine

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• Relation to Me: 28 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Viscount of Chatellerault

Notes:

Through his daughter he was the grandfather of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who would become Duchess of Aquitaine (in her own right) as well as queen of both France and England. Eleanor was arguably the most celebrated woman in Medieval European history.

Died:
Notre Dame, Paris, Ile-de-France, France

I + ISLE BOUCHARD, Dangereuse Maubergeonne. Dangereuse (daughter of Living) was born in 1079; died in 1119. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: Viscountess of Châttellerault

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Whilst travelling through Poitou, Duke William IX of Aquitaine met the "seductive" Dangereuse.[5] This led to her leaving her husband for Duke William, who was excommunicated by the church for "abducting her"; however, she appeared to have been a willing party in the matter. He installed her in the Maubergeonne tower of his castle in Poitiers, and, as related by William of Malmesbury, even painted a picture of her on his shield.[6][7]

Upon returning to Poitiers from Toulouse, William's wife Philippa of Toulouse was enraged to discover a rival woman living in her palace. She appealed to her friends at the court of Aquitaine and to the Church;[8] however, no noble could assist her since William was their feudal overlord, and when the Papal legate Giraud complained to William and told him to return Dangereuse to her husband, William's only response to the bald legate was, "Curls will grow on your pate before I part with the Viscountess." Humiliated, in 1116, Philippa chose to retire to the Abbey of Fontevrault.

Birth:
LIle Bouchard, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France

Died:
LIsle Bouchard, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: He married three times and had at least five children. After he divorced his second[sic, first?, his 2nd wife bore a child, his first did not] wife due to infertility, he remarried to a much younger woman who was also his cousin. This marriage produced a son, but William VIII had to visit Rome in the early 1070s to persuade the pope to recognize his children from his third marriage as legitimate.
• Relation to Me: 29 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Poitou, Duke of Gasony amd Duke of Aquitaine
• Name: William VIII and Guy-Geoffrey, Guillaume Pierre VIII Aquitaine

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Birth:
Poitiers, Vienne, Aquitaine, France

Guillaume married DEBOUGGOGNE, Hildegarde Capet in Sep 1068 in Gironde, Gironde, Aquitaine, France. Hildegarde (daughter of ROBERT, I and ANJOU, Ermengarde d) was born in 1056 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France; died in 1104 in Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 29 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Duchess of Gascony and Aquitaine.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 29 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 1061 and 1094; Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence, Duke of Narbonne

IV + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]