Guillaume VIII "l'Ancien", comte d'Auvergne

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Guillaume ''l'Ancien" d'Auvergne

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Birthplace: France
Death: circa 1182 (78-96)
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Son of Guillaume VI "le Vieux", comte d'Auvergne and Emma Hauteville, of Sicily-Evreux
Husband of Anne de Nevers
Father of Robert, comte d'Auvergne; Agnès d'Auvergne and Judith d'Auvergne
Brother of Robert III, comte d'Auvergne
Half brother of Ruggiero Macabeo, conte di Montescaglioso; Adelisa Macabeo and Judith Macabeo

Occupation: Comte d'Auvergne
Managed by: John Jacques Leslie Marshall
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About Guillaume VIII "l'Ancien", comte d'Auvergne

GUILLAUME [VIII] "le Vieux" d'Auvergne
s/o GUILLAUME [VI] Comte d'Auvergne & Emma of Sicily (-[1182])
x ANNE de Nevers d/o GUILLAUME II Comte de Nevers & Adelais

  • ROBERT [IV] d'Auvergne (-[1194],
  • GUILLAUME (-1219)
  • JUDITH? x BERAUD [III] Seigneur de Mercœur s/o ODILON [de Mercœur] & his wife --- (-before 1169).]
  • AGNES? (-after 1195).

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/AUVERGNE.htm#GuillaumeVIIIAuvergned...

- https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_VIII_d%27Alvernia


-https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/AUVERGNE.htm#GuillaumeVIIIAuvergne...

GUILLAUME [VIII] "le Vieux" d'Auvergne, son of GUILLAUME [VI] Comte d'Auvergne & his wife Emma of Sicily (-[1182]). "Poncius…Cluniacensis ecclesiæ…abbas" recommended "amitam suam domnam Judit Arvernorum comitissam" to donate property to Cluny, noting the later donation by "eidem comitissæ et filio eius domno Willelmo Arvernorum comiti…et filios eius Robertum…et Willelmum et eius filiam Judith", by undated charter[229]. He succeeded as Comte d'Auvergne. A letter from the canons of Clermont to Louis VII King of France complained of the activities of “Willelmi maioris natu comitis atque filii eius Roberti”, undated[230].

m ANNE de Nevers, daughter of GUILLAUME II Comte de Nevers & his wife Adelais ---. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "comitissa Anna…soror comitis Renaldi Nivernensis" as mother of "Robertus [comes Alvernie]"[231].

Comte Guillaume [VIII] & his wife had four children:

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