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DE AQUITAINE, Guillaume IX

DE AQUITAINE, Guillaume IX

Male 1071 - 1126  (54 years)

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  • Name DE AQUITAINE, Guillaume IX  [1] 
    Birth 22 Oct 1071  [1] 
    • Poitiers, Aquitaine, France
    Gender Male 
    Differentiator Though his political and military achievements have a certain historical importance, he is best known as the earliest troubadour[1] — a vernacular lyric poet in the Occitan language — whose work survived. 
    Relation to Me 28 GGF 
    Royalty & Nobility Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou 
    Name William IX Aquitaine 
    Death 10 Feb 1126  Israel Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Burial Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I392  My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Father PIERRE, Guillaume VIII,   b. 1025   d. 25 Sep 1086, Chizé, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother DEBOUGGOGNE, Hildegarde Capet,   b. 1056, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1104, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Sep 1068  Gironde, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F107  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family MAUDE, Philippa,   b. 22 Oct 1073, Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Nov 1118, Abbey Fontevrault, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage 1094  France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. AQUITAINE, Guillaume X of,   b. 1099, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Apr 1137, Compostela, Orense, Galicia, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. OF AQUITAINE, Agnes,   b. 1105, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Mar 1147, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F89  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1094 - France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 10 Feb 1126 - Israel Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    William_IX_of_Aquitaine_-_BN_MS_fr_12473
    AquitaineDukes-family-tree

    Documents
    William-IX-DukeofAcquitaine_ The Troubadours    		William-IX-DukeofAcquitaine_ The Troubadours
    William IX, Duke of Aquitaine - Wikipedia    		William IX, Duke of Aquitaine - Wikipedia

  • Notes 
    • An anonymous 13th-century vida of William remembers him thus:

      The Count of Poitiers was one of the most courtly men in the world and one of the greatest deceivers of women. He was a fine knight at arms, liberal in his womanizing, and a fine composer and singer of songs. He traveled much through the world, seducing women.

      In a striking departure from the typical attitude toward women in the period, William seems to have held at least one woman in particularly high esteem, composing several poems in homage to this woman, who he refers to as midons (master):[8]

      Every joy must abase itself,
      and every might obey
      in the presence of Midons, for the sweetness of her welcome,
      for her beautiful and gentle look;
      and a man who wins to the joy of her love
      will live a hundred years.
      The joy of her can make the sick man well again,
      her wrath can make a well man die,

      His frankness, wit and vivacity caused scandal and won admiration at the same time. He is among the first Romance vernacular poets of the Middle Ages, one of the founders of a tradition that would culminate in Dante, Petrarch, and François Villon. Ezra Pound mentions him in Canto VIII:

      And Poictiers, you know, Guillaume Poictiers,
      had brought the song up out of Spain
      with the singers and viels...

      In Spirit of Romance Pound also calls William IX "the most 'modern' of the troubadours":

  • Sources 
    1. [S1557] Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).


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