DE AQUITAINE, Guillaume IX
1071 - 1126 (54 years)
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Name DE AQUITAINE, Guillaume IX [1] Birth 22 Oct 1071 [1] - Poitiers, Aquitaine, France
Gender Male 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 Death 10 Feb 1126 Israel 
[1] Burial Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France [1] Patriarch & Matriarch 
AQUITAINE, Ranulf I of, b. 820 d. 866 (Age 46 years) (5 x Great Grandfather)
Person ID I392 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father PIERRE, Guillaume VIII, b. 1025 d. 25 Sep 1086, Chizé, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 61 years) Relationship natural Mother DEBOUGGOGNE, Hildegarde Capet, b. 1056, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France d. 1104, Aquitaine, France (Age 48 years) Relationship natural Marriage Sep 1068 Gironde, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Family ID F107 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MAUDE, Philippa, b. 22 Oct 1073, Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France d. 28 Nov 1118, Abbey Fontevrault, Aquitaine, France (Age 45 years)
Marriage 1094 France Children 1. AQUITAINE, Guillaume X of, b. 1099, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France d. 9 Apr 1137, Compostela, Orense, Galicia, Spain (Age 38 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]▻ DE CHATELLERAULT, Aenor m. 11212. OF AQUITAINE, Agnes, b. 1105, France d. 7 Mar 1147, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 42 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F89 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Marriage - 1094 - France 
Death - 10 Feb 1126 - Israel 
Burial - - Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France = Link to Google Earth
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William-IX-DukeofAcquitaine_ The Troubadours William IX, Duke of Aquitaine - Wikipedia
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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":
- An anonymous 13th-century vida of William remembers him thus:
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Sources - [S1557] Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S1557] Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
