Dukes of Aquitaine

1. Adelaide, Princess of Aquitaine: Born about 952, of Germany; Died 1004; Married 968; Hugh "Capet", King of France, Count of Paris: Born about January 941, of Paris, Seine, France; Died 24 October 996, Paris, Seine, France. (See Kings of France).

Adelaide's Parents--

2. William III, Duke of Aquitaine, (I) Count of Poitou: Born about 929, of Poitiers, France; Died 3 April 963; Married Adele, Princess of Normandy, Countess of Poitiers: Born about 897, Normandy, France; Died after 14 October 962.

Adele's Parents--

I. Rollo, (Rolf the Ganger) Duke of Normandy: Married Poppa, Duchess of Normandy. (See The Kings of England)

William's Parents--

3. Ebles Mancer, Duke of Aquitaine: Born about 902, of Poitiers, France; Died 935; Married about 928, France; Elgiva, Princess of England: Born about 912, Wessex, England; Died 28 Oct.

Elgiva's Parents and both sets of Grandparents--

• I. Edward I, "the Elder", King of England: Born about 871, Wessex, England; Died 924, Farrington, Berkshire, England; Married 919, Wessex, England; Edgiva, Queen of England: Born about 896, Kent, England; Died 961. The Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Elder ruled from 899 until 924. Edward unified most of England south of the Humber River. He succeeded his father, Alfred, as King of Wessex and continued the wars of resistance against the Danes. Conducting a series of joint campaigns with his sister, AEthelflaed of Mercia, he destroyed a Danish army in 910 and by 918 had virtually extinguished Danish power in England. On AEthelflaed's death in the same year, English Mercia was incorporated into Wessex. In 920, Edward received the formal submissions of Raegnald, the Scandinavian King of York; Ealdred, ruler of English Northumbria; the Welsh King of Strathclyde; and possibly Constantine II of Scotland. He died on July 17, 924, and was succeeded by his son Athelstan. By the time of his death Edward was the effective ruler of all of England south of Trent; but the Mercian folk remembered that he was a West Saxon.
• Edgiva's Father--
  • A. Sigehelm, Earl of Kent: Born about 871, of Kent, England.
• Edward's Parents--
  • B. Alfred "the Great", King of England: Married Ethelswida (Alswitha), Queen of England. (See Anglo-Saxon Monarchs)

Ebles' Parents--

4. Ranulph II (or Rainulfe), Count of Poitou: Born about 855, of Poitiers, France; Died 5 August 890; Had issue with a concubine.

5. Ranulph I, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou: Born about 835, of Poitiers, France; Died 875; Married Blichilde De Maine: Born about 837, of Maine, Normandy, France.

Blichilde's Father--

• I. Rorick (Rorican), Count of Maine: Born about 804, of Maine, Normandy, France; Married about 834, of Maine, Normandy, France.

Ranulph's Parents--

6. Gerard, Count of Auvergne: Married a Princess of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Princess of the Holy Roman Empire's Parents--

7. Louis I "the Fair", Holy Roman Emperor: (See La Zouche) Married 798, France; Ermengarde, Princess of Hesbaye, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire: Born about 778, of Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium; Died 3 October 818, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France.(See Holy Roman Emperors #3)