- AKA: Alix of Poitiers
- Countess of Vermandois
- Sister of the Queen Consort of France
Petronille de Poitiers was born circa 1125 to William X of Aquitaine (1099-1137) and Eleonor de Châterault (1103-1137) and died 1153 of unspecified causes. She married Raoul I de Vermandois (1085-1152) 1142 JL .
Biography
Petronilla of Aquitaine was a French noble. She was the second daughter of William X of Aquitaine (1099-1137) and Eleonor de Châterault (1103-1137). She was the elder sister of William Aigret and the younger sister of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was Queen consort of France, later England. She is variously called Alix (or Aelith in Occitan) and Petronilla; she typically went by Alix after her marriage, while Petronilla seems to have been her childhood name (she is referred to as such in her father's will).
Petronilla accompanied her sister to the French court, where she met Count Raoul I de Vermandois (1085-1152),[1] who was a married man and a cousin to her brother-in-law Louis VII of France. He repudiated his wife and married her, and they were excommunicated by Pope Innocent II in 1142.[2] Hostilities flared, and Louis VII infamously burned Vitry-le-François. Pope Eugenius III renewed the excommunication in 1145, but eventually lifted it at the Council of Reims in 1148.
The exact date of Petronilla's death is unknown, although she must have died at some point between the Council of Reims in 1148 and 1152 when Raoul was married for a third time to Laure, daughter of Thierry of Alsace, count of Flanders.[3][4][5][6] Petronilla was buried in the Cluniac priory of Saint-Arnoul in Crépy-en-Valois, where Raoul was later interred alongside her.[7]
Issue
Rauol I and Petronille had 3 children:
- Elizabeth (or Isabelle) Mabile, countess of Vermandois and Valois (1143–1183), married Philip I, Count of Flanders; no issue.[8]
- Ralph II, count of Vermandois and Valois (1145–1167),[9] was the first husband of Margaret of Lorraine, later countess of Flanders. He died of leprosy in 1167 without issue.
- Eleanor, countess of Vermandois and Valois (b. 1148? – d. 1213/1214).[10] She married four times as follows, but had no issue:
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Élisabeth de Vermandois (1143-1183) | 1143 | 28 March 1183 Arras, France | Philippe d'Alsace (-1191) |
| Raoul II de Vermandois (1145-1167) | 1145 | 17 June 1167 | Margaret I of Flanders (c1143-1194) |
| Éléonore de Vermandois (c1148-1213) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) | 1122 Château Belin | 1 April 1204 Fontrevault | Louis VII of France (1120-1180) Henry II of England (1133-1189) |
| Petronille de Poitiers (1125-1153) | 1125 | 1153 | Raoul I de Vermandois (1085-1152) |
| Guillaume Aigret de Poitiers (1126-1130) | |||
Sources
- wikipedia:en:Petronilla of Aquitaine
- Project Medlands
- Petronilla d'Aquitaine, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Petronilla-d-Aquitaine/6000000006906655766, retrieved 18 Mar 2024
References
- ^ Ffiona Swabey (2004). Eleanor of Aquitaine, Courtly Love, and the Troubadours. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 34. ISBN 978-0-313-32523-6. https://archive.org/details/eleanorofaquitai00swab.
- ^ Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1876). Popular history of France, to the death of Louis xiv. pp. 86. https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryf00sewegoog.
- ^ John of Salisbury (1956). Chibnall, Marjorie. ed. Historia Pontificalis. pp. 14–15.
- ^ Gislebert of Mons (1904). Vanderkindere, L.. ed. Chronicle of Hainaut. pp. 70.
- ^ Lambert of Wattrelos. Annales Cameracenses. MGH SS, XVI. pp. 522.
- ^ Flandria Generosa. MGH SS, IX. pp. 324.
- ^ Van Kerrebrouck, Patrick (2000). Les Capetiens, 987-1328. pp. 539.
- ^ Baldwin 1986, p. 15.
- ^ Duval-Arnould 1984, p. 68.
- ^ Duval-Arnould 1984, p. 67.
- ^ Gislebertus (of Mons) 2005, p. 40.
- ^ a b Dyggve 1935, p. 67-68.
- ^ Baldwin 1986, p. 81.
Footnotes (including sources)
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