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| Marriage Ending Status: Divorce
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| Guillaume IX (Husband) b. 22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France
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| Marriage: | 1088 1089 |
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Individual:
Ref: Eleanor of Aquitaine a biography by Marion Meade
"In 1088, when William was sixteen, he married the daughter of his northern neighbor, Fulk, Count of Anjou, a man so disagreeable that he won the nickname "The Contrary." Fulk's daughter Ermengarde, beautiful and highly educated, appeared to be precisely the type of woman that William wanted, and not until after the wedding did he realize that she had inherited a streak of her father's sour disposition. Ermengarde, he discovered, had good periods and bad periods, her moods swinging drastically between vivacity and the most alarming sullenness, although it was possible that William's great weakness for chasing women contributed to her fits of bad temper. Moreover, she revealed a tendency to nag, a trait that thoroughly annoyed the carefree William, and the marriage got off to a bad start. After a quarrel, Ermengarde would retire to a convenient cloister, where she would sever all communications with the outside world, her husband included. But after a period of solitary retreat, she would suddenly reappear at court, magnificently dressed and smothered in jewels, behaving with a merriment that enchanted the courtiers and belied the fact that she had ever shown a sulky face. Her schizophrenic behavior soon proved too much for William, since she had failed to conceive, he probably felt justified in sending her back to Anjou. The marriage was dissolved in 1091, and a year later Ermengarde married the Duke of Brittany."
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