Events
Date of Birth: about 995.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The estimated date is given by Glocker (p. 320).
Date of Death: 9 November 1068.
Place of Death: Saintes.
The date and place are given by Guillot and Dillange (p. 157).
Place of Burial: Poitiers, Priory of Saint-Nicolas.
The place is given by Guillot and by Dillange (p. 157).
Relationships
Father: Otte-Guillaume, count of Mâcon.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:517), by Cokayne (p. 76), by Glocker (p. 320), by Bouchard (1987, p. 270; 2001, p. 18), and by Baldwin.
Mother: Ermentrude, daughter of Ragenold, count of Roucy.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:517), by Cokayne (p. 76), by Glocker (p. 320), and by Bouchard (1987, p. 270; 2001, p. 18).
Spouse: Guillaume V d’Aquitaine. Married about 1019.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:517), by Cokayne (p. 74), by Guillot, by Glocker (p. 320), and by Bouchard (1987, p. 270, 2001, p. 18).
Spouse: Geoffroy II, count of Anjou. Married 1 January 1031/2, repudiated by 1047.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:517), by Cokayne (p. 76), by Glocker (p. 320), by Bouchard (p. 18), and by Baldwin.
Children (by Guillaume):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Pierre (1023 - 1058), later Guillaume VII, duke of Aquitaine, and Guillaume V, count of Poitou, married Ermesinde.
Guy-Geoffroy (1023 - 25 September 1086), later Guillaume VIII, duke of Aquitaine and Guillaume VI, count of Poitou, married (1) Aina de Périgord; married (2) Mathilde; married (3) Audearde de Bourgogne.
Agnès (about 1025 - 14 December 1077) married Heinrich III, king of Germany.
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Baldwin, Stewart. “Otto alias Guillaume, or Otte-Guillaume” in The Henry Project.
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198 (Cornell University Press, 1987).
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).
Dillange, Michel. Les comtes de Poitou: ducs d’Aquitaine (778-1204) (Mougon: Geste éditions, 1995).
Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).
Guillot, O. "Agnes, Tochter des Grafen von Mâcon Otto-Wilhelm" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).