Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Towhead
• FSID: LD9Y-C7T
• Appointments / Titles: Between 935 and 963, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; Count of Poitou and Auvergne
• Appointments / Titles: Between 962 and 963, Aquitaine, France; Duc d'Aquitaine - after restoration

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.

WIlliam married de Normandie, Adèle on 1 Jan 935 in Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. Adèle (daughter of Rognvaldsson, Earl Rollo and of Bayeux, Poppa) was born in 911 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; was christened in 912 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 14 Oct 962 in Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France; was buried on 14 Oct 962 in Saint-Maixent-l'École, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: Poitiers (by birth)
• House: Robertian (by marriage)
• FSID: M15L-V4Q
• Appointments / Titles: Between 987 and 996; Queen consort of The Franks

Notes:

Adelahide, Adele, or Adelaide of Aquitaine (also known as Adelaide of Poitiers; c. 945 or 952 – 1004),[1] was queen consort of France by marriage to Hugh Capet. Adelaide and Hugh were the founders of the Capetian dynasty of France, and Adelaide had some extent of influence over her husband's governance of France.

Adelaide was the daughter of William III, Duke of Aquitaine and Adele of Normandy, daughter of Rollo of Normandy. Her father used her as security for a truce with Hugh Capet, whom she married in 969.[2]

In 987, after the death of Louis V, the last Carolingian king of France, Hugh was elected the new king with Adelaide as queen. The couple were proclaimed as the new monarchs at Senlis and blessed at Noyon. As such, they had become the founders of the Capetian dynasty of France.[1] Apparently, Hugh trusted in Adelaide's judgement and allowed her to take part in government. He asked her to negotiate on his behalf with the regent of the Holy Roman Empire, Empress Theophanu, committing himself beforehand to any agreement they reached.[1]

Adelaide's son, Robert, came into conflict in the late 990's with Gerbert, the Archbishop of Reims. Gerbert took refuge with Otto III, Theophanu's son and the new Holy Roman Emperor, and Adelaide attempted to recall the former to Reims, but Gerbert resisted this command in a letter dated to the spring of 997.[3]

Adelaide and Hugh had at least three children that lived to adulthood:

Hedwig, Countess of Mons (or Hadevide, or Avoise) (c. 969–after 1013), wife of Reginar IV, Count of Mons
Robert II (972–1031), the future king of France. Crowned co-king in 987, in order to consolidate the new dynasty.
Gisèle, Countess of Ponthieu (c. 970–1002), wife of Hugh I, Count of Ponthieu.
A number of other daughters are less reliably attested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_of_Aquitaine

Adélaïde married Capet, Hugues in 968 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Hugues was born on 3 Jul 941 in Dourdan, Essonne, Île-de-France, France; was christened on 3 Jul 941 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France; died on 24 Oct 996 in Prasville, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France; was buried on 24 Oct 996 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: Capetian
• FSID: LD9R-RBH
• Appointments / Titles: 970; Countess de Dagsbourg
• Appointments / Titles: 970, Hainaut, Belgium; Countess of Hainaut
• Appointments / Titles: 970; Princesse de France
• Appointments / Titles: 996; Countess of Mons

Notes:

Hedwig of France (c. 970 – after 1013), also called Avoise, Hadevide or Haltude, was Countess of Mons. She was the daughter of Hugh Capet, the first King of France, and his wife, Queen Adelaide of Aquitaine.

Family
In 996 Hedwig married Reginar IV of Hainaut (947–1013). Their children were:

Reginar V, Count of Mons
Gisèle (998-1049), who married Wautier III d'Olhain
Lambert
Beatrix, who married Ebles I, Count of Rheims and Roucy
Ermentrude, died at the age of two or three; buried in the Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude in Nivelles, Belgium. The burial came to light during an excavation. A lead cross, inscribed with her name and that of her parents, was found in the tomb.

Death
Following the death of her first husband, Hedwig remarried to Hugh de Dagsbourg. She died after 1013.
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“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HUGUES OF FRANCE nicknamed le Grand or Capet, Duke of France, 960-987, King of France, 987-996, son of Hugues “le Grand,” Duke of France, by his 3rd wife, Hedwig, daughter of Heinrich I, King of Germany, born say 940. He married in the summer of 968 ADELAIDE OF POITOU, daughter of Guillaume I, Count of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine, by Adèle, daughter of Rollo of Normandy. They had one son, Robert II [King of France], and two daughters, Hawise (or Hawidis/Hadwidis/Hathuidis/Hadevidam) (wife of Regnier IV, Count of Hainault) and Gisèle (wife of Hugues I, seigneur of Abbeville, Avoué of Saint-Riquier). He was consecrated King of France at Noyon 1 July 987. HUGUES CAPET, King of France, died at "Les Juifs" near Prasville, Eure-et-Loire 24 October 996, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Denis. His widow, Adélaide, died 15 June 1003-5.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS IX (1851): 366 (Historia Francorum Senonensis: "Secundo anno obiit Hugo Magnus dux Francorum apud Drodingam villam 16. Kal. Iul. [16 June], sepultusque est in basilica beati Dyonisii martiris Parisius. Cui successerunt filii eius, Hugo videlicet, Otto et Heinricus, nati ex filia Odonis regis."), 368 (Historia Francorum Senonensis sub A.D. 998: "Obiit Hugo rex, sepultusque est in basilica beati Dyonisii martiris Parisius."). Acta Sanctorum Octobris 10 (1861): 791-793 (Translatio S. Maglorii et Aliorum Ex tomo III Annalium Ord. S. Benedicti: "Hugone, Francorum duce ... qui etiam cum sua venerabili conjuge, Adelaide nomine, filia Pictavorum comitis, de progenie Caroli Magni ..."). Prou Raoul Glaber - Les cinq Livres de ses Histoires (900-1044) (1886). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 319 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "XVII kal. jul. [15 June] - Ob. Adelaidis regina"), 329 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "VIIII Kal. Nov. [24 Oct.] - Ob. Hugo rex [996]"). Lot Sur le Règne de Hugues Capet et la Fin the Xe Siècle (1903). Chaume Les Origins du Daché de Bourgogne 1 (1925): 536-537 (chart). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Charles 115 (1957): 168-171. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France), 76 (ancestry of Alix de Poitou). Bouchard Sword, Miter, & Cloister (1987). Medieval Prosopography 9 (1988): 1-32. Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 47-55. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 310 (France ped.).”

Hedwig married de Mons, Régnier IV in 996 in Hainaut, Belgium. Régnier was born on 11 Jan 947 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; died in 1013 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; was buried in 1013. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: Capet
• Nickname: The Pious
• Nickname: The Wise
• FSID: LD9R-RB7
• Appointments / Titles: Between 987 and 996; King of The Franks (co-reign)
• Life Event: 30 Dec 987, Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France
• Appointments / Titles: Between 996 and 1031; King of the Franks

Robert married d'Arles, Constance in 1003 in France. Constance (daughter of de Provence, WIlliam I and d'Anjou, Adélaïde) was born in 986 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; died on 25 Jul 1032 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried after 25 Jul 1032 in Basilica of St Denis, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LBSF-ZFR

Notes:

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HAINAUT.htm#BeatriceM1EblesRoucyM2ManassesRameru
https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfralaoncou.htm#EblesRoucydied1033
https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/chamdampjo.htm#ManassesCalvaAsinadiedafter1053

BEATRIX de Hainaut. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Beatricem" as daughter of "Rainero comiti de Hainaco" and his wife Hedwige, naming her husband "Ebalus de Roceio"[162]. The Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis gives more details, naming "Beatricem" as daughter of "Hadevidem…comitissam Hainonensium" and specifying that she married "Ebalus de Roceio, cuius frater fuit Lebaldus de Malla et soror Iveta comitissa de Roitest" and later "Manasses cui agnomen Calva-asina"[163]. m firstly (divorced before 1021) EBLES [I] Comte de Roucy, son of GISELBERT Comte [de Roucy] & his wife --- (-11 May 1033). Archbishop of Reims 1021. m secondly ([1021]) MANASSES de Ramerupt "Calva-asina", son of HILDUIN [III] de Ramerupt [Montdidier] & his wife ---. Vidame de Reims 1053. !

Family/Spouse: de Rheims, Archbishop Ebles I. Ebles (son of de Roucy, Giselbert and de Roucy, N.N.) was born in 988 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 11 Mar 1033 in Épernay, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France; was buried in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: Capet
• FSID: LDW5-66P
• Appointments / Titles: Between 14 May 1027 and 20 Jul 1081, Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; King of France

Notes:

Henry I (4 May 1008-4 August 1060) was King of the Franks from 1031 to his death. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. This is not entirely agreed upon, however, as other historians regard him as a strong but realistic king, who was forced to conduct a policy mindful of the limitations of the French monarchy.

Reign-
A member of the House of Capet, Henry was born in Reims, the son of King Robert II (972-1031) and Constance of Arles (986-1034). He was crowned King of France at the Cathedral of Reims on 14 May 1027, in the Capetian tradition, while his father still lived. He had little influence and power until he became sole ruler on his father's death.

The reign of Henry I, like those of his predecessors, was marked by territorial struggles. Initially, he joined his brother Robert, with the support of their mother, in a revolt against his father (1025). His mother, however, supported Robert as heir to the old king, on whose death Henry was left to deal with his rebel sibling. In 1032, he placated his brother by giving him the duchy of Burgundy which his father had given him in 1016.

In an early strategic move, Henry came to the rescue of his very young nephew-in-law, the newly appointed Duke William of Normandy (who would go on to become William the Conqueror), to suppress a revolt by William's vassals. In 1047, Henry secured the dukedom for William in their decisive victory over the vassals at the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes near Caen; however, Henry would later support the barons against William until the former's death in 1060.

In 1051, William married Matilda, the daughter of the count of Flanders, which Henry saw as a threat to his throne. In 1054, and again in 1057, Henry invaded Normandy, but on both occasions he was defeated.

Henry had three meetings with Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor-all at Ivois. In early 1043, he met him to discuss the marriage of the emperor with Agnes of Poitou, the daughter of Henry's vassal. In October 1048, the two Henries met again and signed a treaty of friendship. The final meeting took place in May 1056 and concerned disputes over Theobald III and County of Blois. The debate over the duchy became so heated that Henry accused the emperor of breach of contract and subsequently left. In 1058, Henry was selling bishoprics and abbacies, ignoring the accusations of simony and tyranny by the Papal legate Cardinal Humbert. Despite his efforts, Henry I's twenty-nine-year reign saw feudal power in France reach its pinnacle.

King Henry I died on 4 August 1060 in Vitry-en-Brie, France, and was interred in Basilica of St Denis. He was succeeded by his son, Philip I of France, who was 7 at the time of his death; for six years Henry's queen Anne of Kiev ruled as regent. At the time of his death, he was besieging Thimert, which had been occupied by the Normans since 1058.

Marriages-
Henry I was betrothed to Matilda, the daughter of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, but she died prematurely in 1034. Henry then married Matilda of Frisia, but she died in 1044, following a Caesarean section. Casting further afield in search of a third wife, Henry married Anne of Kiev on 19 May 1051. They had four children:

1.) Philip I (23 May 1052-30 July 1108).

2.) Emma (1054-1109).

3.) Robert (c. 1055-1060).

4.) Hugh "the Great" of Vermandois (1057-1102).

Henri married Yaroslavna, Anne on 29 Jan 1051 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Anne (daughter of of Kievian Rus', Grand Prince Yaroslav I and Olafsdotter, Saint Ingrid) was born in 1030 in Kievian Rus' Empire (Historical); died on 5 Sep 1075 in La Forêt, Essonne, Île-de-France, France; was buried after 5 Sep 1075 in La Forêt, Essonne, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]