William of Poitiers (Prince)

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William of Poitiers (French: Guillaume de Poitiers , English: William of Poitiers ; born August 17, 1153 probably in Angers , † June 1156 in Berkshire ) was a prince of the Anglo-Angevin ruling dynasty Plantagenet .

Life

King Henry II of England and his children. Far left, Wilhelm. Depiction from the 13th century.

As the eldest son (primogentius) of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine , he was the designated heir to the English throne and the extensive territorial conglomerate of his family in France (see: Angevin Empire ). His place of birth is nowhere mentioned explicitly, but it is believed to be in Angers , where Eleonore held a court day shortly after his birth in the absence of her husband. She approved, among other things, "for the success of her husband Heinrich [in England]" and "the well-being of her son Wilhelm" a petition from the abbot of La Trinité-de-Vendôme , which is Wilhelm's first documentary mention. In the more recent historical literature in particular, Wilhelm is also incorrectly referred to as " Count of Poitiers "; in fact, due to his childhood, he was never enfeoffed with this county. Regarding his naming, Robert von Torigni noted, however, that the name Wilhelm "is almost the attribute of the Counts of Poitou and the Dukes of Aquitaine".

In April 1155, Henry II made his English vassals swear by his son in Wallingford to ensure his successor. However, Wilhelm died in the spring of 1156 at the age of three and was buried in Reading Abbey .

The next main heir was Heinrich “the young king” , born in February 1155 , who was also crowned King of England in 1170.

literature

  • Léopold Delisle (Ed.): Chronique de Robert de Torigni. 2 volumes, Rouen 1872/73.
  • Alfred Richard: Histoire des comtes de Poitou. 2 volumes, Paris 1903.
  • Ralph V. Turner: Eleanor of Aquitaine - Queen of the Middle Ages. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63199-3 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The date of birth is given in Torigni ([1153] Mense Augusti, circa octavus sancti Laurentii,… In eisdemoctavis, nascitur filius Hanrico duci Normannorum ex uxore sua Alienor comitissa Pictavensi.) And in the Chronicle of Sankt Alban im Anjou ([1153] Guillelmus natus est, filius Henrici ducis, XVI ° kalendas septembris) . See Torigni, Vol. I, p. 280. Chronicæ sancti Albini Andegavensis, ed. by Paul Marchegay and Émile Mabille in: Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou (1869), p. 38.
  2. ↑ See Richard, Vol. II, p. 115 f ; Turner, p. 156 f.
  3. ↑ Cartulaire saintongeais de la Trinite de Vendôme (1040–1785), ed. by Charles Métais in: Archives Historiques de Saintonge et d'Aunis, Vol. 22 (1874), No. LXII, p. 103 f.
  4. ↑ Torigni, Vol. I, p. 280. Vocatus est idem puer Willermus, quod nomen quasi proprium est comitibus Pictavorum et ducibus Aquitanorum.
  5. ↑ See Torigni, Vol. I, p. 293; Turner, p. 175.
  6. ↑ See Torigni, Vol. I, p. 300.
personal data
SURNAME William of Poitiers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillaume de Poitiers; William of Poitiers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English heir to the throne
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1153
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Angers
DATE OF DEATH June 1156
Place of death Berkshire