Ebles Manzer, duke of Aquitaine

Count of Poitou

Count of Auvergne

Duke of Aquitaine

Events

Date of Birth: about 870.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Richard (p. 72) states that Ebles was aged about 65 at his death.

Date of Death: 935.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Père Anselme (2:513), by Richard (p. 72), and by Dillange (p. 82).

Relationships

Father: Rainulf II.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:513), by Richard (p. 43), by Barthélemy (p. 611), and by Dillange (p. 77).

Mother: unknown.

According to Richard (p. 43), Ebles was born to an unknown mistress of Rainulf, before Rainulf’s marriage. Père Anselme (2:513) makes the mother Adelaide, the daughter of Louis le Begue, king of France.

Spouse: Aremburge.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:513), by Richard (p. 73), and by Dillange (p. 82).

Spouse: Emillane.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:513), by Richard (p. 73), and by Dillange (p. 82).

Children (by Emillane):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Guillaume III d’Aquitaine (died 3 April 963) married Adèle de Normandie.

Eble (died 26 February 977), bishop of Limoges.

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).

Auzias, Léonce. L’Aquitaine Carolingienne (778-987)  (1937). 

Barthélemy, Dominique. L’an mil et la paix de dieu: la France chrétienne et féodale 980-1060, (Fayard, 1999).

Dillange, Michel. Les comtes de Poitou: ducs d’Aquitaine (778-1204) (Mougon: Geste éditions, 1995).

Richard, Alfred. Histoire des Comtes de Poitou 778-1204. Tome Premier 778-1126 (Paris:1903).