Draft:Guillaume III Talleyrand of Angoulême
William III "Tallyrand" was a French Count of Angoulême and Périgord from 960 until his death in 962.
Biography[edit]
William was the second son of Count Bernard of Angoulême and his first wife Bertha. His full brother was Arnold I "Voratio" and his two half brothers were Ralph I "Bompar" and Richard "the Simple".[1]
William is first mentioned as being a witness to a document in which his father, Bernard, returned the abbey of Saint-Sour de Genouillac to the friars, along with his siblings Arnald, Gauzbert, and Bernard.[2]
Around 940, Bernard had the abbey of Sarlat restored with the consent of his second wife Garsenda and William was among those who countersigned the document.[3]
Bernard died in 950, and was succeeded by Arnald in both Angoulême and Périgord. Arnald died sometime before William, leaving the counties to William.[4]
William died in 962 and was succeeded by his half brother Ralph.
References[edit]
- ^ Jean Combes ( dir. ) and Michel Luc ( dir. ), La Charente from Prehistory to the present day (collective work) , St-Jean-d'Y, Imprimerie Bordessoules, coll. “History through documents”,1986, 429 pp.
- ^ Louis Halphen, France: the last Carolingians and the rise of Hugh Capet (888-987) , in «History of the medieval world», vol. II, 1979, pp. 636–661
- ^ Lewis, Archibald R. (1965). The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050. University of Texas Press.
- ^ Ademarus Engolismensis Historiarum, par 23, pages 41 and 42