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unusual facts about William VI, Count of Auvergne



Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne

Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498 – 28 April 1519) was a younger daughter of Jean III de La Tour (1467– 28 March 1501), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais, and Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendôme (1465–1511).

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 VI, Count of Auvergne

William VI of Auvergne (1096–1136) was a French count of the historically independent region of Auvergne, today in central France.

William VI, Duke of Aquitaine

He was freed in 1036, after nearly three years imprisonment, only by ceding the cities of Saintes and Bordeaux.

On 20 September 1034, he was captured in the field at Moncontour, near Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes.

William VI, Marquess of Montferrat

The only great success of the alliance was the sack of Cuneo.


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