William III, Count of Ponthieu

William III. Talvas (c. 1095; † June 20, 1172 ) was the son of Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Agnes of Ponthieu, whose heritage as Count of Ponthieu he was before 1111.

Since his father was imprisoned in 1112 by King Henry I for the rest of his life, William was in opposition to Henry. Wilhelm connections to Geoffrey of Anjou took advantage of Heinrich to fill William's castles in Normandy. Consequently, he inherited not the possessions of his father in England.

1119, He is Lord of Montgomery and the other possessions of his father ( Bellême, Alençon, etc.), 1126/29 he gave the county of Ponthieu to his son Guido II from. 1141 was his son John I, Count of Alençon (he himself joined in 1145 as well as Count of Alençon on ).

William had since about 1115 Hélie / Ela / Helen of Burgundy (c. 1080; † February 28, 1142 ) married the daughter of Odo I, Duke of Burgundy ( Older house Burgundy ) and widow of Bertrand, Count of Toulouse ( † 1112) (House Toulouse); the Gesta Normannorum Ducum attributes to him four children, two sons and two daughters, are actually eleven known children: