Everything about William I Of Aquitaine totally explained
William I (died
July 6 918), called
the Pious, was the
Count of Auvergne from
886 and
Duke of Aquitaine from
893, succeeding the
Poitevin ruler
Ebalus Manser. He made numerous monastic foundations, most important among them the foundation of
Cluny on
September 11 910.
William was the son of the
Bernard II of Auvergne and Ermengard. Sometime before
898, he married the
Bosonid Engelberga, daughter of
Boso and
Ermengard.
By inheritance, he was the master of
Auvergne and the
Limousin. He conquered Poitou and Aquitaine in 893 on behalf of Ebalus Manser. He kept the latter for himself and was proclaimed duke. His possessions extended from
Austrasia to
Toulouse and included the
Autunois and
Mâconnais.
In 910, William founded the
Benedictine abbey of Cluny that would become an important political and religious centre. William required no control over the abbey and established that the Cluniac house was responsible directly to the
pope (see
Clunian reforms). William nominated Cluny's first abbot,
Bernon de Baume.
A sign of William's independence of rule in Aquitaine is that he'd a
deniers minted in his own name at
Brioude. He was buried in the monastery of Saint-Julien there. He had no sons of his own and was succeeded by a nephew,
William the Younger, son of his sister Adelinda.
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