X-Nico

2 unusual facts about William X, Duke of Aquitaine


Châtelaillon-Plage

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

Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard

The relationship between William and his legitimate son William was troubled by his father's liaison with Dangereuse.


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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).

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.

Dublin Lock-out

Other leaders in the ITGWU at the time were James Connolly and William X. O'Brien, while influential figures such as Patrick Pearse, Countess Markievicz and William Butler Yeats supported the workers, in the generally anti-Larkin media.

Irish Socialist Republican Party

Other notable figures in the 'first' ISRP included William X. O'Brien who became a leading figure in the Irish Trade Union movement, Cork man Con Lehane, future Northern Irish Senator Robert Dorman and Tom Lyng.

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.

Stockport by-election, 1920

A leading Irish trade unionist and secretary of the Irish Labour Party, William X. O'Brien, was interned by Britain for his role in the conflict, and he decided to stand in the by-election as a platform for his cause, and in an attempt to embarrass the British Labour Party into action.

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 X. O'Brien

An important figure in the Labour Party in Ireland in its formative days, O'Brien resisted James Larkin's attempt to gain control of the Party on release from prison.

W. T. Cosgrave while President of the Executive Council of the Free State government notably turned down a plea for asylum in Ireland for Leon Trotsky made by O'Brien.

Taking Larkin to court over his occupation of ITGWU headquarters, the Larkin-O'Brien feud resulted in a split within the labour and trade union movements, and the formation of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

Workers' Union of Ireland

Larkin, still officially general secretary of the ITGWU, clashed bitterly with William X. O'Brien, who had taken leadership of the ITGWU, the Irish Labour Party and the Irish Trade Union Congress.


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