Eléonore DE CHÂTELLERAULT
- Born: Abt 1103, Châtellerault, Vienne, France
- Married: 1121, France
- Died: After Mar 1130, Talmant, , France
Research Notes:
“Willelmus…dux Aquitanorum” donated property to “ecclesiæ B. Hilarii de Cella” (La Celle, outside Poitiers) granted by “Gaufredus avus et Guillelmus pater mei” by charter dated 3 Mar 1130, subscribed by “Willielmi ducis Aquitanorum, Aenordis comitissæ, Alienordis filiæ eorum, Wilelmi Aigres filii eorum”. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not been identified. It is indicated by the Chronicon Gaufredi Vosiensis which names [her niece] "Sibylla filia Radulfi de Faya, qui fuit frater Guillelmi Vicecomitis de Castelleyrac" when recording her marriage, read together with Ralph de Diceto who named Raoul [de Châtellerault] Seigneur de Faye as “avunculus” of [her daughter] Eléonore d’Aquitaine, wife of Henry II King of England. 1
Marriage Information:
Eléonore married Guillaume X D' AQUITAINE Comte de Poitou, son of Guillaume IX "The Troubador" D' AQUITAINE, Comte de Poitou, and Philippa DE TOULOUSE, in 1121 in France. (Guillaume IX "The Troubador" D' AQUITAINE was born in 1099 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France, died on 19 Apr 1137 in Santiago, Compostela, Galicia, Spain and was buried in Compostela, Compostela, Galicia, Spain.)
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