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• FSID: G8WY-Y15

Family/Spouse: d'Auvergne, Bernard II. Bernard (son of de Poitiers, Bernhard II and du Maine, Blichilde) was born on 22 Mar 841 in Uzès, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died on 18 Jul 886 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: GSZX-P1N

Family/Spouse: de Provence, Engelberge. Engelberge (daughter of de Provence, Boson and de Italy, Queen of Burgundy Ermengarde) was born in 860 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died in 919 in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: G8XC-GM9

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Émilienne
Also Known As: "Emilienne", "Emilianne", "Emiliana", "Emillane", "may be Aremburga ?"
Birthdate: circa 879
Birthplace: France
Death: circa 935 (47-65)
Poitiers, Vienne, Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes, France
Place of Burial: Poitiers, Vienne, Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes, France
Immediate Family:
Wife of Ebles II Manzer, duc d'Aquitaine
Mother of Guillaume 'Tête d'étoupe' d'Aquitaine, III duc d'Aquitaine, I comte de Poitou

Emilienne married d'Aquitaine, Ebles II in 911 in France. Ebles (son of de Poitiers, Ranulf II) was born on 23 Feb 876 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 27 May 935 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; was buried after 27 May 935 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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

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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]