William VII, Duke of Aquitaine

William VII ( baptized as Peter) called the Eagle ( Guillaume l' aigret ) or the Bold ( le Hardi ) (* 1023, † autumn 1058 ) from the family of Ramnulfiden was Duke of Aquitaine and (as William V ) Count of Poitou from 1039 to his death. He succeeded his half-brother Odo.

William was the third son of Duke Wilhelm V, the eldest of his third marriage, of the. Agnes of Burgundy He was the brother of the emperor Henry III. , Who was married to his sister Agnes of Poitou. During his reign, his mother 's second marriage was Gottfried II Martel, Count of Anjou.

As Gottfried of Anjou refused him after his divorce from Agnes before Burgundy ( 1049/52 ) to return the areas that were granted as her dowry, Wilhelm VII took up arms. He laid siege to Saumur, where he died of dysentery ( dysentery ).

He was married to Ermesinde, a woman whose origin in research is controversial (see Adalbert (Lorraine ) ). William and Ermesinde probably had two daughters: Clementia (PDF, 3.4 MB), the Konrad I, Count of Luxembourg, married, and presumably Agnes, the only Ramiro I King of Aragon, later Count Peter I of Savoy married.