William Count of Poitiers

1153 - 1156  (2 years)

• Name	William Count of Poitiers
  Born	17 Aug 1153	Normandy, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	Apr 1156	Wallingford Castle Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
  Buried	Reading Abbey Cemetery Reading, Berkshire, England
  Person ID	I753	King of Scots
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2009

  
  

  Father	Henry II King of England and Lord of Ireland,   b. 05 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France ,   d. 06 Jul 1189, Anjou, France  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Eleanor of Aquitaine (Queen of England),   b. 1122, Chateau De Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France ,   d. 01 Apr 1204, Fontevraud Abbey Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Chinon, Anjou, France  (Age 82 years)
  Married	18 May 1152
  Family ID	F307	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  William (17 August 1153 ? April 1156) was the first child of Henry Plantagenet (later Henry II of England) and Eleanor of Aquitaine, born in Normandy, on the same day that his father's rival Eustace IV of Boulogne died. William was a younger maternal half-brother of Marie de Champagne and Alix of France. He was an older brother of Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora of Aquitaine, Joan Plantagenet and John of England. He died aged two years at Wallingford Castle, and was buried in Reading Abbey at the feet of his great-grandfather Henry I. At the time of his death, he had already been given the title of Count of Poitiers. For centuries, the dukes of Aquitaine had held this as one of their minor titles, so it had passed to Eleanor from her father; giving it to her son was effectively a revival of the title, separating it from the dukedom. Some authorities say he also held the title of "Archbishop of York", but this is probably an error. His half-brother Geoffrey Plantagenet (died 1212), who was born within months of William, did later hold that office, causing the confusion.