William VIII of Montpellier
William VIII of Montpellier | |
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| Died | 1202 |
| Noble family | Guilhem |
| Spouse(s) | Eudokia Komnene Agnes of Castile |
| Father | William VII of Montpellier |
| Mother | Matilda of Burgundy |
William VIII (in Occitan: Guilhem; died 1202) was Lord of Montpellier, the son of William VII and .
William VIII married Eudokia Komnene, grand-niece of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos.[1]
They had one daughter:
- Marie of Montpellier
Lacking a male heir William separated from Eudokia, sending her to a monastery in Ariane.[2]
William married and they had:
The Pope ruled William's marriage to Agnes as illegitimate and Marie was given the throne.[5]
William VIII was a patron of troubadours. Arnaut de Mareuil came to his court after fleeing from the entourage of Azalais of Toulouse, and at least one of Arnaut's poems is addressed to him.
References[]
- ^ Paul Magdalino, The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180, (Cambridge University Press, 1993), 102.
- ^ Nicole M. Schulman, Where Troubadours Were Bishops: The Occitania of Folc of Marseille (1150-1231), (Routledge, 2001), 25 note46.
- ^ a b c d The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon, ed. Damian J. Smith and Helena Buffery, (Ashgate Publishing, 2010), 19.
- ^ William M. Reddy, The Making of Romantic Love, (University of Chicago Press, 2012), 126.
- ^ E. Jenkins (6 August 2012). The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon (1162-1213). Springer. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-137-07826-1.
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