Guillaume d'Auvergne VI De Velay

• Preferred Name: Guillaume d'Auvergne VI De Velay^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Crusader
  
• FSID: GX26-2WT
  
• Death: 1136 in Montferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France at LATI: N5.7931 LONG: E0.1138 with note:
  
• Birth: environ 1069 in Montferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France at LATI: N5.7931 LONG: E0.1138 with note:
  
• Notes:

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  === #Générale# Comte d'Auvergne. ===
  #Générale# Comte d'Auvergne.
  
  === Profession : Comte d'Auvergne. ===
  Profession : Comte d'Auvergne.

• m. 1087

1. Guillaume d'Auvergne VII, b. 25 FEB 1095 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France     d. 21 NOV 1182 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

1. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/AUVERGNE.htm#GuillaumeVIAuvergnedied1136;
   Note: GUILLAUME [VI] (-25 Jan [1136]). "Rotberti comitis Alvernorum, Wilelmi filii eius" subscribed a charter of "Francorum rex Philippus" dated 1095[231]. Comte d'Auvergne et de Velay. The necrology of the priory of Saint-Robert de Cornillon, Grenoble records the death "VIII Kal Feb" of "Guillelmus comes Arverniæ"[232]. m ---. The name of Guillaume’s wife is not known. It is possible that she was Emma of Sicily, daughter of daughter of Roger I Count of Sicily & his first wife Judith d'Evreux [Normandie]. Malaterra names "filiam eius…Emmam…de prima uxore Judicta" when recording that her father arranged her marriage to Philippe I King of France, in return for a generous dowry, not knowing that the king was still married to Bertha of Holland. She left for France, but when the king's marital status came to light, the dowry was sent back to Sicily and her marriage to the Comte de Clermont was arranged by her brother-in-law Raymond de Saint-Gilles[233]. Baluze is extremely sceptical about the reliability of these statements and suggests that the "comte de Clermont" in question may have been a member of the Clermont [Chiaramonte] family which is recorded from the early 12th century in southern Italy[234]. According to Europäische Stammtafeln[235], the wife of Comte Guillaume [VI] was Emma, daughter of Guillaume d'Evreux, who was the maternal aunt of Emma of Sicily, but this appears to be chronologically impossible. Emma married [secondly] Rodolfo Macabeo Conte di Montescaglioso. Pope Pascal II confirmed the possessions of the abbey of Notre-Dame de Josaphat in Sicily and Calabria by charter dated 3 Jan 1113, listing the donations including "Emme filie Rogerii comitis Sicilie et Calabrie…orto ante ecclesiam Sancte Perpetue"[236]. "Rogerius…Sicilie et Italie rex" confirmed donations "a beate memorie Emma sorore nostra quondam comitissa civitate Severiane et Appii domina" to the church of St Basilius in Appia by charter dated 21 Sep 1133[237]. "Rogerius…Sicilie et Italie rex…Rogerii primi comitis heres et filius" confirmed past donations to St Mary Josephat, Jerusalem by (among others) "dna Emma soror nostra uxor quondam Radulfi Machabei" by charter dated 11 Oct 1144[238]. Comte Guillaume [VI] & his wife had two children: a) ROBERT [III] (-[1145]). "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[239]. Comte d'Auvergne. "Rotbertus comes Arvernorum" donated property to Sauxillanges, for the souls of "patris mei Willelmi et matris meæ ac fratris mei Willelmi et filii mei Willelmi", by undated charter[240]. m ---. The name of Robert's wife is not known. Comte Robert [III] & his wife had one child: i) GUILLAUME [VII] "le Jeune" (-[1169]). "Rotbertus comes Arvernorum" donated property to Sauxillanges, for the souls of "patris mei Willelmi et matris meæ ac fratris mei Willelmi et filii mei Willelmi", by undated charter[241]. Comte d'Auvergne. - DAUPHINS d’AUVERGNE, COMTES de CLERMONT. b) GUILLAUME [VIII] "le Vieux" d'Auvergne (-[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[242]. He succeeded as Comte d'Auvergne. - see below.
   
2. Title: Wikipedia
   Author: Bibliographic sources Étienne Baluze , Genealogical History of the House of Auvergne . 1708. Read online : Volume 1 , Volume 2 . Yves Carrias, Crusader Knights of Auvergne, heraldic table. Preface by Jean-Guy Micolon de Guérines, president of the genealogical and historical research association of Auvergne, 2009, Éditions Create, Clermont. (book which contains anachronisms and errors).
   Publication: Name: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_VI_d%27Auvergne;
   Note: Translated from French Guillaume VI , (born circa 1069, died 1136) was Count of Auvergne after 1095. After participating in the First Crusade , Guillaume would come into conflict with the King of France , his northern neighbor, and thus be the first Auvergne vassal to face his suzerain during the first interventions of the King of France in more southern territories. William VI of Auvergne Town of Montferrand, built and fortified by Guillaume VI of Auvergne. Montferrand in Guillaume Revel's Armorial d'Auvergne , 1450. Title of nobility Count of Auvergne 1096-1136 Predecessor Robert II of Auvergne Successor Robert III of Auvergne Biography Birth Worms 1069 Death 1136 Activity Feudatory Father Robert II of Auvergne Mother Judith de Melgueil ( d ) Spouse Emma de Hauteville ( d ) (from1087) Children William VIII of Auvergne Robert III of Auvergne This context of conflict also sees for the Count of Auvergne, a need to fortify and build strongholds in order to control and protect the Auvergne territory ; in this way, Guillaume VI will found the city of Montferrand which since its birth wants to be a rival stronghold of the neighboring city of Clermont , city of the bishop . Biography He is the son of Robert II, Count of Auvergne and Gévaudan , and his second wife, Judith de Melgueil. The crusade Arms of William VI and Auvergne . In the year 1102, he took the elite of the Auvergne nobility to the Holy Land : Baron de la Tour, Jean de Murat, Arnaud d'Apchon, etc. They joined Raymond de Saint-Gilles and besieged Tripoli with him . Its arms, " gold a gonfanon gules fringed vert ", remained those of Auvergne . The war against the king of France Back in Auvergne , he had Montferrand , the town of his creation, fortified with the aim of having a stronghold against Aimeri , bishop of Clermont. The repeated violence he exercised in 1122 against the Clermont clergy decided the latter to appeal to King Louis VI the Fat , who gathered an army " to avenge on the Auvergnats the injury done to the Church ", according to Suger . The royal army ravaged Limagne , took Pont-du-Château and invested Clermont , which obliged Guillaume to return what he had taken. Four years later, the quarrel with the bishop having resumed, the King of France Louis VI came to besiege Montferrand , but the army of the Duke of Aquitaine, Guillaume IX , suzerain of Guillaume d'Auvergne, came to his aid. The large number of soldiers in the French army made the Aquitaine army lose its confidence and forced negotiations to take place. Things were settled in accordance with feudal law, the duke making allegiance to the king, his suzerain, for the lands of his vassal the Count of Auvergne. He founded the priory of Chavanon around 1130. William VI married Emma, ​​daughter of Roger I of Sicily and Judith of Évreux . He is the father of Robert III and William VIII , who both became Counts of Auvergne, the latter having stripped his nephew of the former's estate.