Guiraude de Dax

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Guiraude de Dax (fl. c. 1100 – c. 1130) was a Gascon heiress. She was the daughter of , , who died c. 1090.

Overview[]

Guiraude was married to a distant cousin, , lord of and Ostabarret, and with the death of her brother, vicomte Pierre Arnaud, without issue (c. 1120), she and her husband succeeded to vicomte. Their marriage had reunited the two branches of descent from , the first vicomte of Dax, who died prior to 1020.

Vicomtesse Guiraude was the mother of , vicomte de Dax (c. 1100-1167), and through her great-granddaughter, , the wife of , , Guiraude was the ancestor of that family, as well the seigneurs d'Albret.

References[]

• P.D. Abbott, Provinces, Pays, and Seigneuries of France, Canberra (1981)