Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal to the French king. From 1152, the Duchy of Aquitaine was held by the Plantagenets, who also ruled England as independent monarchs and held other territories in France by separate inheritance (see Plantagenet Empire). The Plantagenets were often more powerful than the kings of France, and their ...
The title of Duke of Aquitaine, already revived, was now borne by Rainulf, although it was also claimed by the counts of Toulouse. The new Duchy of Aquitaine, including the three districts already mentioned, remained in the hands of Ramulf's successors, despite disagreement with their Frankish overlords, until 893 when Count Rainulf II was ...
William II, Duke of Aquitaine This page was last edited on 27 August 2017, at 14:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
From 1180 to 1183 the tension between Henry and Richard grew, as King Henry commanded Richard to pay homage to Henry the Young King, but Richard refused. Finally, in 1183 Henry the Young King and Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, invaded Aquitaine in an attempt to subdue Richard. Richard's barons joined in the fray and turned against their duke.
William III the Younger (restored, 918–926), son of Adelinda, daughter of Bernard Plantapilosa, also duke of Aquitaine. Acfred of Aquitaine (926–927), brother of previous. After the death of Acfred, who left the comital fisc completely diminished, there appeared no successor who could control the entire Auvergne, with Velay.
William was the son of William IX by his second wife Philippa of Toulouse. [1] He was born in Toulouse during the brief period when his parents ruled the capital. His birth is recorded in the Chronicle of Saint-Maixent for the year 1099: Willelmo comiti natus est filius, equivoce Guillelmus vocatus ('a son was born to Count William, named William like himself').
Title extinguished in 1804 with the 7th Duke, Louis-Antoine-Henri of Bourbon-Condé. Duke of Mercœur: 1569 Lorraine: 1712 Duchy-peerage created in 1569 on Mercœur (department of Puy-de-Dôme) for Nicolas de Lorraine, passed in 1649 to the House of Bourbon. Title extinguished in 1778 with the 9th Duke, Charles-Philippe of France, future King ...
Hunald I, also spelled Hunold, Hunoald, Hunuald or Chunoald [a] (died 756), was the Duke of Aquitaine from 735 until 745. Although nominally he was an officer of the Merovingian kings of Francia , in practice Aquitaine was completely autonomous when he inherited it.