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unusual facts about William IX, Duke of Aquitaine



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June 9Battle of Toulouse: after besieging Toulouse for three months, Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the Wāli (governor) of Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), is defeated (and dies of his injuries) by Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine, preventing the spread of Umayyad control westward from Narbonne into Aquitaine.

Charte d'Alaon

The Charte d'Alaon is a spurious and fraudulent charter purporting to provide a genealogy of the house of Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine (715 – 735).

Châtelaillon-Plage

On August 1130, the Duke of Aquitaine William X of Poitiers, sieged the château.

Chilperic II

In 718, Chilperic, in response, allied with Odo the Great, the duke of Aquitaine who had made himself independent during the contests in 715, but he was again defeated by Charles, at Soissons.

Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard

She was also mistress to her granddaughters' paternal grandfather William IX, Duke of Aquitaine.

Isembert de Châtelaillon

Isambert, like all the Lords of Châtelaillon was a vassal of the Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou.

Ligugé Abbey

The invasion of the Saracens, the wars of the dukes of Aquitaine with the early Carolingians, and lastly the Norman invasion were a series of disasters that almost destroyed the monastery.

Martin Ernst von Schlieffen

Schlieffen became the most important adviser of Landgraves Frederick II and William IX.

William I, Duke of Aquitaine

William I (22 March 875 – 6 July 918), called the Pious, was the Count of Auvergne from 886 and Duke of Aquitaine from 893, succeeding the Poitevin ruler Ebalus Manser.

William IX

William I, Elector of Hesse (or Hesse-Cassel), also known as William IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, (1743–1821)

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

William was excommunicated a second time for "abducting" the Viscountess Dangerose (Dangerosa), the wife of his vassal Aimery I de Rochefoucauld, Viscount of Châtellerault.


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