The earliest definite ancestor seems to have been Gerard
I, Cte d'Auvergne (k.a.Fontenoy
1a) Rainulf, Ct of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine 852, k.a.Oct
866; m.ca 845 a dau.of Ct Rorico de Maine; acc to some sources he married 1stly
Rotrud, daughter of Charlemagne
1b) Rainulf II, Ct of
1c) Rainulf III of
2c) [illegitimate] Ebles Mancer,
Ct of
1d) [probably by 1st
m.] William I (III), dit Tete d'Etoupe, Ct of Poitou, Auvergne and Limoges,
Duke of Aquitaine 959/62, d.3 Apr 963; m.935 Adela=Gerloc (d.after 969), dau of
Rollo of Normandy; with him the numbering confusion begins; he was the first
Duke William of Aquitaine of his family, but there had been two Duke Williams
of the house of Autun; thus the ordinal confusion
1e) William II (IV), Duke of
Aquitaine, Ct of Poitou, d.995/6; m.Emma (d.after 1003), dau of Cte Thiebaut de
Blois
1f) William III (V) "le
Grand", Duke of Aquitaine, Ct of Poitou, d.31 Jan 1030; m.1st ca
997 Almodis de Gevaudun (d.after 1005), widow of Boso Cte de la Marche; m.2nd
1011 Sancha (d.ca 1018), dau of Duc Guillaume de Gascogne; m.3rd 1019
Agnes (d.10 Nov 1068), dau of Cte Othon Guillaume de Bourgogne (and later wife
of Geoffroy Martel, Cte d’Anjou)
[by 1st
m.]:
1g) William IV (VI) "le
Gros", Duke of Aquitaine, Ct of Poitou, Saintonge and Guyenne (1004-15 Dec
1038); m.before 1031 Eustachie (d.after 1038), dau of Berlay de Montreuil
[by 2nd
m.]:
2g) Eudes, Duc de Gascogne, Ct
of
3g) Thibaut, d.young
[by 3rd
m.]:
4g) Peter-William V (VII)
"l'Aigret", Duke of Aquitaine, Ct of Poitou, d.1058; m.before 1041
Ermesinde (d.after 1058), dau of Albert Cte de Longwy, Duke of Upper Lorraine
1h) Clementia of Aquitaine,
heiress of Longwy, Frau von Gleiberg, d.after 1129; m.1st shortly
before 1-75 Ct Konrad of Luxemburg (d.1086); m.2nd Ct Gerhard of
Geldern
2h) ??Agnes
of Aquitaine, d.after
5g) Guy-William VI (VIII), Duke
of
[by 2nd
m.]:
1h) [acc. to some sources, by
2d m., though the dates don’t match] Agnes of
[by 3rd
m.]:
2h) William
1i) [by 2nd
m.] William VIII (X), Duke of Aquitaine, Ct of
1j) William, d.1130/7
2j) Eleanor, Dss of Aquitaine,
Css of
3j) Aelis=Petronelle, d.after
[illegitimate
issue of William
2i) Raimund de Poitiers, Prince
of Antioch, k.a.27 Jun 1149; m.1140 Constance of Sicily, Pss of
3i) Henri de Poitiers, Abbot of
4i) Guillaume de Poitiers, Cte
de Valentinois, d.1187/9; m.N de Beziers; this man may have been son of William
VII (IX), as stated, but some sources list his parents as one Ademar and his
wife Rixende, sister of Eustache, Cte de Valence; his descendants bore the
surname “de Poitiers”
5i) Agnes=Matilda; m.1st
before 1117 Vcte Aimery de Thouars (d.1127); m.2nd 1135 King Ramiro
II of Aragón (d.1157)
6i)
3h) Hugues, d.after 1126
4h) Agnes, d.1097; m.King Pedro
I of Aragón (d.1104)
5h) Beatrix, d.1110; m.1108
King Alfonso VI of
6g) Beatrix, d.ca 1109;
m.Raimon de Melgueil
7g) Adelais; m.1st Cte
Gerard d'Armagnac; m.2nd Vcte de Lomagne
2f) Ebles, d.after 997
2e) Adela, d.ca 1004; m.970
King Hugh of
2d) Ebles, Bp of
2b) Gauzbert, d.892
3b) Ebles, an abbot (857-2 Oct
892)
2a) Cte Gerard de Limousin, d.ca 879
1b) Cte Geraud d'Aurillac (d.ca
909)
3a) a dau., m.Fulko de