William V the Great of Aquitaine (Cir 969-1030)

Agnes of Burgundy (Cir 995-1068)

William VIII of Aquitaine (1025-1086)

Anne of Perigord (-)

Agnes of Poitou (1052-Cir 1078)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Alfonso VI Ferdinandez Agnes of Poitou 1 2 3 Born: 1052 Marriage: Alfonso VI Ferdinandez in 1069 Died: Cir 1078 aged 26 Buried: Royal Monastery of Sahagún   General Notes: In the varied matrimonial career of her father, Constance of Burgundy, daughter of Duke Robert the Old, was the second of Alfonso's wives. The first, Agnes, daughter of Duke William VIII of Aquitaine, apparently produced no children who survived. The last mention of Agnes occurs in a donation of Alfonso VI to Cluny on May 22, 1077. Agnes married Alfonso VI Ferdinandez, son of Fernando I el Grande of Castilla-Leon and Sancha of León, in 1069. The marriage ended in divorce in 1077. (Alfonso VI Ferdinandez was born before Jun 1040 and died on 29 Jun 1109.)   Marriage Notes: Alfonso's first wife was Agnes, daughter of William VII of Aquitaine. They had no children and were divorced due to consanguity. 2

Sources

1 The Library of Iberian Resources Online, http://libro.uca.edu/, The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca; Chapter 1. Alexandre Bruel, Recueil des chartes de l'Abbaye de Cluny, 6 vols. (Paris, 1876-1903), 4:625-626. Agnes's death has frequently been given as June 6, 1078, based on a garbled notice in the "Annales Compostellani," ed. Enrique Flórez, ES, vols. 1-27 (Madrid, 1747-72), 23:322. The notice more probably refers to her half sister of identical name, who was married to Peter I of Aragón. The French Chronicle of St. Maixent says that she was repudiated by Alfonso; see Alfred Richard, Histoire des comtes de Poitou (Paris, 1903), 1:307-308 and n. 1. In any event, Agnes was buried, as were three other spouses of Alfonso subsequently, at the royal monastery of Sahagún; Julio Puyol y Alonso, El abadengo de Sahagún (Madrid, 1915), pp. 17-18 and n. 1. The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula.

2 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).

3 Brian C. Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical (Datahttp://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
Brian Tompsett
Department of Computer Science
University of Hull
Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk).