Hvem giftede sig med William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine?

William VIII (c. 1025 – 25 September 1086), born Guy-Geoffrey (Gui-Geoffroi), was duke of Gascony (1052–1086), and then duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitiers (as William VI) between 1058 and 1086, succeeding his brother William VII (Pierre-Guillaume).

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Garsende de Périgord, duchesse de Gascogne.

Née au début du XI^e siècle, elle est la fille d'Audoin II comte de Périgueux et d’Alausie de Gascogne qui lui donne pour sa dot ses droits sur le duché de Gascogne.

Garsende les apporte donc à son époux Guillaume VIII d'Aquitaine à leur mariage après 1044.

Quand Guy-Geoffroi devient comte de Poitiers et duc d'Aquitaine en 1058, il répudie Garsende à cause de la stérilité de leur mariage.

Elle se retire donc au couvent Notre-Dame de Saintes, fondé en 1047 par sa belle-mère Agnès de Bourgogne.

• Portail de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine
• Portail du Moyen Âge central

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Hildegarde of Burgundy (c. 1056–1104) was a French noble, Duchess consort of Gascony and Aquitaine by marriage to William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine.

She was the only daughter of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy with his second wife, Ermengarde of Anjou. She was, and by marriage, Duchess of Gascony and Aquitaine.

She married William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine; she was his third wife. William and Hildegarde had these children together:

• William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
• Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre
• Beatrice? married firstly to Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile and secondly to Elias I, Count of Maine.

William’s birth was a cause of great celebration at the Aquitanian court, but the Church at first considered him illegitimate because of his parents’ consanguinity. This obliged his father to make a pilgrimage to Rome soon after his birth to seek papal approval of his marriage to Hildegarde.

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