NameErmengarde D'anjou
Death1 Jun 1147
Spouses
Birthbef 1070, Bretagne, Indre, France
Death13 Oct 1119
MotherHawise De Bretagne (-1072)
ChildrenHawisa
Marriageabt 1089
Divorce1092
Notes for Ermengarde D'anjou
aka: Hermengarde , Countess de Bretagne
Married ABT 1089 Divorce 1092 to , William IX the Troubador of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine
Notes for Alan IV "Fergent" (Spouse 1)
Acceded: 1084
Died: 13 OCT 1119
Notes:
deposed 1112


Fergant, Alan IV of Brittany, Duke of Brittany
Alan IV "Fergent", Duke de Bretagne
Died 1119
Notes for Guillaume IX “the Troubador” (Spouse 2)
Born: 22 OCT 1071, France
Acceded: 1086
Died: 10 FEB 1126
Notes:Assisted Philip I of France against William the Conqueror. He erected the Palace of Poictou, and, after confering large donations on the Church, died. The dates and name are unclear. Some label him as William VII.
aka: Guillaume VII d'Aquitaine

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William IX (French: Guillaume de Poitiers ; Occitan: Guilhèm de Peitieus) (22 October 1071 – 10 February 1126), called the Troubador, was the Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou (as William VII) between 1086 and his death. He was also one of the leaders of the Crusade of 1101. Though his political and military achievements have certain historical importance, he's best known as the earliest troubadour[1] — a vernacular lyric poet in the Occitan language — whose work survived.

William was the son of William VIII of Aquitaine by his third wife, Hildegarde of Burgundy. His birth was a cause of great celebration at the Aquitanian court, but the Church at first considered him illegitimate because of his father's earlier divorces and his parents' consanguinity. This obliged his father to make a pilgrimage to Rome soon after his birth to seek Papal approval of his third marriage and the young William's legitimacy.
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