| Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (605 words) |
 | The heirs of Charlemagne divided and redivided their inheritance, and Aquitaine passed out of the control of Neustria, the western kingdom of Charlemagne's house, and in the 9th century the leading local counts gradually freed themselves of the vestiges of royal control. |
| Duke William IX, the troubadour was a poet himself, and Poitiers became a center of the musical poetry of the troubadours. |
| When William X died (1137), his daughter Eleanor of Aquitaine, the greatest heiress of France, married her guardian, Louis VII of France and followed him on crusade, then had the marriage annulled under the pretext of kinship in 1152 to marry his greatest rival Henry II of England. |
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