d'Aquitaine, WIlliam III

915 - 963  (47 years)

• Name	d'Aquitaine, WIlliam  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  		Map of Aquitania
  Suffix	III
  Birth	22 Oct 915	Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Appointments / Titles	Between 935 and 963	Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France   [2, 5, 6]
  	Count of Poitou and Auvergne
  Appointments / Titles	Between 962 and 963	Aquitaine, France   [2, 5, 6]
  	Duc d'Aquitaine - after restoration
  Nickname	Towhead
  FSID	LD9Y-C7T  [1, 2, 5, 6]
  Death	3 Apr 963	Saint-Maixent-l'École, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6]
  Burial	5 Apr 963	Saint Cyprien, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France   [1, 2, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I34337	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	d'Aquitaine, Ebles II,   b. 23 Feb 876, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 27 May 935, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	du Poitou, Emilienne,   b. 879, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 935, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	911	France   [7]
  Family ID	F13519	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	de Normandie, Adèle,   b. 911, Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 14 Oct 962, Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 935	Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Children	1. d'Aquitaine, Adélaïde,   b. 945, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 30 Oct 1004, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France (Age 59 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F13517	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Oct 915 - Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France Appointments / Titles - Count of Poitou and Auvergne - Between 935 and 963 - Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France Marriage - 1 Jan 935 - Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Appointments / Titles - Duc d'Aquitaine - after restoration - Between 962 and 963 - Aquitaine, France Death - 3 Apr 963 - Saint-Maixent-l'École, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France Burial - 5 Apr 963 - Saint Cyprien, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Wikipedia William III (913 – 3 April 963), called Towhead (French: Tête d'étoupe, Latin: Caput Stupe) from the colour of his hair, was the "Count of the Duchy of Aquitaine" from 959 and Duke of Aquitaine from 962 to his death. He was also the Count of Poitou (as William I) from 935 and Count of Auvergne from 950. The primary sources for his reign are Ademar of Chabannes, Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and William of Jumièges. William was son of Ebalus Manzer[1] and Emilienne. He was born in Poitiers. He claimed the Duchy of Aquitaine from his father's death, but the royal chancery did not recognise his ducal title until the year before his own death. Shortly after the death of King Rudolph in 936, he was constrained to cede some land to Hugh the Great by Louis IV. He did it with grace, but his relationship with Hugh thenceforward deteriorated. In 950, Hugh was reconciled with Louis and granted the duchies of Burgundy and Aquitaine. He tried to conquer Aquitaine with Louis's assistance, but William defeated them. Lothair, Louis's successor, feared the power of William. In August 955 he joined Hugh to besiege Poitiers, which resisted successfully. William, however, gave battle and was routed. After the death of Hugh, his son Hugh Capet was named duke of Aquitaine, but he never tried to take up his fief, as William reconciled with Lothair. He was given the abbey of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, which remained in his house after his death. He also built a library in the palace of Poitiers. Family background, marriage and issue His father was duke Ebles Manzer, who already was a man in his middle years when he was born in about 913. According to the chronicle of Ademar de Chabannes, William's wife was Geirlaug (French: Gerloc, also known as Adèle), a daughter of Rollo of Normandy. The less reliable Dudo of Saint-Quentin has William rather than Ebles marrying Gerloc, perhaps about 936, in a match that may have been arranged by William I of Normandy. With Gerloc, he had at least one child whose filiation is clearly attested: William, his successor in Aquitaine. He abdicated to the abbey of Saint-Cyprien in Poitiers and left the government to his son. Many[who?] genealogies accept the high likelihood[vague] that they also had a daughter: Adelaide, who married Hugh Capet But her parentage is not reliably documented of their era and is regarded only as a good possibility by usual modern genealogical literature.

  
  

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