THE LIST OF MEN CALLED "WILLIAM, DUKE OF AQUITAINE"
Here follows a list of the order of the dukes of Aquitaine and counts of Poitou by the Bollandist Henschenius* (Feb. II. 378):
1) William I., nicknamed "the Pious" (Pius), the son of Duke Bernard of Auvergne and his wife Hermengard, was duke of the first Aquitaine. He is the founder of the world-famous Cluny monastery, founded in 890. His wife's name was Ingelberga. He left no children, but did have grandchildren by his sister Adalnidis, including a Duke William of Aquitaine whose father's name was Acfred.
2) William II. (I.) followed in the second Aquitaine as the son of Ebolus, who died in A.D. 935. He had the nickname "Flaxhead" (Caput stupae) and should really be counted as William I in the second Aquitaine, just as he is Duke William IV. if you count all the Dukes William of Aquitaine that existed, including William of Gellone, and also "William the Pious" and his grandson, who died around the year 963.
3) William III. (II.) was his son and successor, who according to Pierer* (XXXIV. 84) died in 994, according to others in 1000.
4) William IV. (III.) son of the previous (of 3), was given the nickname "Iron Arm" (Ferreum brachium, Fierabras) and died in old age on January 31, 1030. He had married three times; the first wife, Adalmodis, bore him William, who succeeded him immediately; the second, named Brisca, the Odo and Thetand who died as a boy; from the third, Agnes, he had, apart from the daughter Agnes, who in 1043 was married to Emperor Henry III. (Heinrich) at Ingelheim, also two more sons, who were called Peter and Gaufred Wido.
5) William V. (IV.), the previous's (4) eldest son, succeeded his father in the dominion. According to Henschenius*, his death took place in 1036 (according to Pierer*: 1038). His stepbrother Odo from the second marriage reigned only for a short time.
6) William VI. (V.) was his brother and successor. His real name was Peter. He adopted the name William for official matters in memory of his father William IV. He died in 1058.
7) William VII. (VI.) from his father's (4) third marriage, was actually called Gaufred Wido, but also changed his name to William. He lived until the year 1086.
8) William VIII. (VII.), his son, born in 1071, followed in 1086 and died on February 10, according to Pierer* in 1127.
9) William IX. (VIII.) was son and successor of the previous (8) and in 1137 completed the series of dukes of Aquitaine. Aquitaine then passed to France by his daughter Eleonora, but then to England, with whom it remained for 300 years until it finally came permanently to France in 1453 under King Charles VII. and remained so ever since.
*A hagiography source used by the authors
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, pp. 556-58)
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