189110276. Duke Guillaume IX of Aquitaine & 189110277. Duchess Philippa of Toulouse & 756441158. Viscount Aimery I of Chatellerault & 756441159. Dame Dangereuse de L’Isle Bouchard
10/22/1071,
Guillaume ‘the Troubador’ born in Aquitaine, France, s/o §§Duke Guillaume
VIII of Aquitaine (fl.1052-86) & 378220553. Duchess Hildegarde of
Burgundy.
~1080,
Philippa born in Toulouse, d/o §§Duke William IV of Narbonne (fl.1061-94),
s/o §§Pons of Toulouse (fl.1037-61) & Almodis de la Marche.
~1080,
Aimery born in France, s/o §§Boson II de Châtellerault & Aleanor de
Thouars.
~1085,
Dangereuse born in France, d/o §§Bartholomew de l'Isle Bouchard &
Gerberge de Blaison.
9/25/1086,
Guillaume’s father died.
[––Guillaume––]
1087,
Guillaume 1st married Ermengarde (639672181). [No children.
Guillaume’s father made a trip to Rome to receival papal approval of the marriage
due to consanguinity of his parents.]
1088,
Guillaume succeeded his father.
1089, Legate
Amatus held a council in Bordeaux in which he obtained his own election to the
archbishopric of the city, against the will of Duke William. (S) France in the
Making, Dunbabin, 2000, P159.
1091,
Guillaume’s marriage to Ermengarde dissolved.
6/4/1094,
Philippa’s husband died [at the battle of Huesca.]
1094,
Philippa’s father died.
[––Guillaume
& Philippa––]
1094,
Guillaume married Philippa.
12/25/1095,
Pope Urban II spent Christmas at Guillaume’s court, when the Pope urged
Guillaume to take up the cross of a crusader. (S) Medieval France, Kibler,
1995, P56.
1096, Pope
Urban II threatened Duke William with the interdiction of all his
lands if he did not force his vassal, Eble, to restore the Island of Oleron to
the monastery of the Trinity of Vendome. (S) Cultures of Power, Bisson, 1995,
P273.
1098,
Guillaume, with the support of its Bishop, captured Toulouse. [Philippa’s uncle
was away on crusade.]
1098, A
charter of St. Sernin de Toulouse: William of Acquitaine, count of Poitiers and
‘Pictavensis et Tolose … nomine Philippa … filia W. comitis’. (S) England and
Her Neighbors, Jones, 2003, P36.
1100,
William Rufus, king of England, in negotiations with Duke William about
conquering France. (S) History of the Norman Conquest of England, V5, Freeman,
1876, P-XI. [The 2 Williams were 3rd cousins.]
8/2/1100,
Henry I crowned King of England.
10/1100,
William of Aquitaine, an ally of excommunicated King Philip of France, took the
cross at Limoges.
1101,
Fontevraud abbey founded.
3/1101,
Guillaume a leader of the crusade to the holy land. [William would meet up with
Welf of Bavaria who left a month later.]
6/1101,
William of Aqutaine and Welf of Bavaria reached Constantinople.
7/1101,
William of Aqutaine and Welf of Bavaria crossed the Bosphorus.
9/1101,
Guillaume’s army defeated by the Turks at Heraclea, Guillaume barely escaping
and reaching Antioch with only 6 surviving companions.
1101-2,
William accompanied the prince of Antioch to Jerusalem.
1102,
William was back in Poitiu.
[––Aimery
& Dangereuse––]
~1103,
Dangereuse married to Viscount Aimery I of Chatellerault. [See daughter Aenor
(94555139).]
1107,
William, count of Poitou, used a seal on his documents. (S) Queens in Stone and
Silver, Nolan, 2009, P79.
8/3/1108,
Louis VI crowned King of France. William refused to do homage to the new king.
1108,
Bertrand of Saint-Gilles took Toulouse with support of the Bishop who no longer
supported William.
1113,
William again attacked Toulouse when Count Bertrand was in Tripoli.
4/1112,
Count Bertrand died in the Holy Lands.
1114,
Guilluame excommunicated for an infringement of the Church’s tax privileges.
[William imprisoned the Bishop that had excommunicated him.]
[––Guillaume
& Dangereuse––]
1114-15,
Guillaume took up with the wife of 1 of his vassals, Dangereuse de L’Isle
Bouchard, mother of his son’s future wife [Aenor (94555139)].
1114-15,
Guillaume excommunicated by Gerard, bishop of Angouleme, a papal legate, for
abandoning his legitimate wife. Philippa
had raised the issue at the council of Reims, declaring the woman named
Malberge, wife of viscount Chatellerault, had replaced her in his bed. (S)
Crime and Punishment, Classen, 2012, P50. [This negated William’s claim to
Toulouse.]
1116,
Philippa retired to the abbey of Fontrevault [In Anjou, also the home of
Guillaume’s 1st wife].
11/28/1118,
Philippa died at the abbey. Ermengarde, upon the death of Philippa, left
Fontevrault for the Poitevin court, demanding to be reinstated as the Duchess
of Aquitaine.
[––Guillaume––]
1119,
William, during and illness, composed his lament ‘Pos de chantar me’es pres
talenz.’ (S) Eleanor of Aquitaine, Courtly Love, … Swabey, 2004, P115.
10/1119,
Ermengarde appeared at the Council of Reims being held by Pope Calixtus II and
demanded that the Pope excommunicate William, oust his mistress from the ducal
palace, and restore herself to her rightful place [denied.]
5/1120,
William began a crusade against the North African Almoravids in Spain with the
King of Aragon.
1120-23,
Guillaume with Castile and Leon tried to take Cordoba, Spain.
1121,
Guillaume arranged for his son and heir to marry a daughter of his mistress.
1123,
Guillaume lost control of Toulouse to Count Raymond of Toulouse.
1124,
Guillaume supported King Louis VI of France against the invasion of the
Lorraine by German Emperor Henry V.
1125,
Guillaume invaded Spain, reaching Grenada.
2/10/1126,
Guillaume, count of Poitiers and duke of Aquitaine, died of an illness.
[––Aimery––]
11/7/1151,
Viscount Aimery I of Chatellerault died.
(S)
Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare, Bradbury, 2004, P104. (S) 1st
Crusade, Riley-Smith, 2009, P162. (S) Nelson’s Encyclopaedia, V10, 1907, P526.
(S) Heresy in Medieval France, Taylor, 2005, P41.
Family notes:
Guillaume had the portrait of his mistress painted on
his shield. (S) She-Wolves, Castor, 2011, P136.
During William’s reign, Poitiers, the capital of the
duchy, became one of the leading towns in western Europe.
Guillaume was the first known troubadour, or lyric
poet, employing the Romance vernacular called Provençal or Occitan. 11 of his
songs survive, printed in Mahn’s ‘Die Werke der Troubadours’, 1846. 13th
Century anonymous writer: 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
travelled much through the world, seducing women.
Guillaume had a sister Inez who married Alfonso VI of
Castile and Leon in 1074; but was repudiated in 1077.
1064, §§Guillaume VIII of Aquitaine and Robert Crespin
of Normandy joined forces with Ermegol III of Urgell to conquer Barbastro. (S)
Possessing the Land, Stalls, 1995, P20.
Children
of Guilaume and Philippa:
i. Guillaume X of Aquitaine (94555138) born 1099 in
France.
ii. Raymond of Antioch, born ? in France.
By 1148,
Raymond the ruler of Antioch.
Child
of Aimery and Dangereuse:
i. Aenor of Chatellerault (94555139) born ~1105 in France.
Child
of Guilaume and Dangereuse [mistress]:
i. Agnes of Aquitaine (378220579) born ~1114 in France.
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