Guillaume VI Comte de Poitou et VIII Duc de Aquitaine
- Born: 1024-1026, Poitou, Aquitaine 160
- Marriage: Audearde de Bourgogne circa 1069 160
- Died: Abt 25 Sep 1086, Château Chizay, Poitou, Aquitaine about age 61 160
 Other names for Guillaume were William VI Duke of Aquitaine and VIII Count of Poitou and Guy d’Aquitaine.1002
General Notes:
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 110:23, Geoffrey, called William VI count of Poitou was the son of William III, Count of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine who in turn was the son of Willaim II, Count of Pointou, son of William I of Poitou. William VI married Hildegarde, daughter of Robert the Old, Duke of Burgundy and his wife Ermengarde of Anjou 160
Information about this person:
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Guy d'Aquitaine .
Guy d'Aquitaine was the son of Guillaume V "le Grand" duc de Aquitaine & III comté de Poitou. Guy adopted the first name of Guillaume when he succeeded his brother in 1058 as Guillaume VII duc de Aquitaine & VI comté de Poitou. His first wife was Aina de Périgord, widow of Eudes de Bordeau and daughter of Boson III comté de Périgord and his wife Aina de Montignac. Guillaume married as his second wife, Mathilde, of unknown parentage, and they had a daughter named Agnes. He married for a third time to Audearde (Hildegarde) de Bourgogne, daughter of Robert I "le Vieux" duc de Burgogne. Their known children were Guillaume d'Aquitaine, later Guillaume IX duc de Aquitaine; Hugues d'Aquitaine; Agnes d'Aquitaine who married Pedro de Aragón, son of Sancho I, King of Aragon by his first wife Isabel de Urgel; and Beatrix d'Aquitaine, a possible daughter, who married Alfonso VI, King of Castile.
Guillaume married Audearde de Bourgogne, daughter of Robert "le Vieux" Capet Duc de Burgundy and Éremburge d'Anjou comtesse du Maine, circa 1069.160 (Audearde de Bourgogne died after 1120 1000 and was buried in Poitiers, Aquitaine 1000.)
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