William (Guillaume) III, Duke Of Aquitaine

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• Name: Guillaume III T?te d'Etoupe (the Towhead)
• Name: William I Towhead, The Pious
• Name: William III,
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• Alt. Birth: 900, Of Poitiers, Aquitaine; Alt. Birth
• TitleOfNobility: Between 935 and 963, Poitou, France; Count of Poitou and Auvergne
• Title (Nobility): Between 950 and 963; Count of Auvergne (as William I)
• Alt. Death: 3 Apr 963, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France

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William III (913 ? 3 April 963), called Towhead (French: T?te d'?toupe, 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 Jumi?ges.

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 Ad?le), 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.

Wilhelm Werghaupt (lat. Caput stupe, frz. T?te d'Etoupe; * um 900; ? 3. April 963) war als Wilhelm III. Herzog von Aquitanien und als Wilhelm I. Graf von Poitou, Limoges und Auvergne aus der Familie der Ramnulfiden.

Wilhelm war der ?lteste Sohn von Ebalus Mancer, dem er nach dessen Tod 934 im Poitou nachfolgte. Wilhelm war ein Feind der Robertiner, deren Oberhaupt Hugo Magnus sich 936 Poitiers bem?chtigte. Unter Ausnutzung des Konfliktes Hugos mit K?nig Ludwig IV. dem ?berseeischen konnte Wilhelm die Stadt 938 zur?ckerobern. 942 wurde er vom K?nig zum Laienabt der Abtei von St. Hilaire ernannt, die seither im Besitz der Familie blieb.

Seinen vorrangigsten Kampf f?hrte Wilhelm gegen den Grafen Raimund Pons von Toulouse, der ihm die Herrschaft ?ber die Auvergne streitig machte. Nach dem Tod K?nig Ludwigs IV. (954) huldigte ihm aber die Noblesse der Auvergne, 955 erlangte er die Herrschaft ?ber die Grafschaft Limoges. Seine Position als Herzog von Aquitanien war jedoch umstritten: Einerseits durch die Grafen von Toulouse, die 935 das Herzogtum von K?nig Rudolf verliehen bekamen, und vor allem durch Hugo Magnus, der seinen dominierenden Einfluss auf K?nig Lothar geltend machte und sich von diesem mit dem aquitanischen Herzogtum belehnen lie?. 955 zog Hugo Magnus mit einem k?niglichen Heer vor Poitiers und schlug Wilhelm in einer Feldschlacht. Poitiers konnte aber erfolgreich verteidigt werden. 956 starb Hugo Magnus und obwohl dessen Sohn Hugo Capet die Politik des Vaters aufnahm, sollte die Herrschaft Wilhelms in Aquitanien nicht mehr gef?hrdet werden. Erst jetzt war er unbestrittener ?Herzog der Aquitanier".

Kurz vor seinem Tod wurde Wilhelm M?nch in der Abtei von Saint-Cyprien, wo er auch bestattet wurde.

Wilhelm war seit 935 mit Gerloc-Adele (? nach 969) verheiratet, einer Tochter des normannischen Grafen Rollo. Sie hatten zwei Kinder:

Wilhelm Eisenarm (* um 937; ? 995/996), Graf von Poitou (Wilhelm II.) und Herzog von Aquitanien (Wilhelm IV.)
Adelheid (Aelis) (* wohl 950; ? 1004) 8 im Sommer 968 mit Hugo Capet, Herzog von Franzien und ab 987 K?nig von Frankreich

William married Adele (Gerloc) Of NORMANDY on 1 Jan 935 in Lyons-la-For?t, Eure, Normandie, Fran?a. Adele (daughter of Robert Rollo ROGNAVALDSSON, 1st and Poppa Of Normandy De VALOIS, Duchess) was born about 917 in Normandie, Neustria; died in Oct 962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Adelaide (Aelis) Of Poitou DE POITOU, Princess Of Aquitaine was born in 945 in Poitiers, Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; was christened in in France - House of Aquitaine (Dukes of VI); died on 15 Jun 1006; was buried after 15 Jun 1005 in Abbaye De Saint-Denis, Paris, ?le-de-France, France.
2. Guillaume IV, Duc d'Aquitaine was born in 949 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; was christened in 949 in Francicot, Gironde, Aquitaine, France; died on 3 Feb 995 in Abbatiale St-Maixent, St-Maixent-l'?cole, D?partement des Deux-S?vres, Poitou-Charentes, France; was buried in Feb 995 in Saint-Maixent-L'?cole, Deux-S?vres, Poitou-Charentes, France.

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Count of Poitou

Ebalus married Aremburgis in 892. Aremburgis and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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