In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

In 1137, Duke William X left Poitiers, going to Bordeaux and taking his daughters.

Some, such as John of Salisbury and William of Tyre say Eleanor's reputation was sullied by rumours of an affair with her uncle Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch.

13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John

He was a younger brother of William IX, Count of Poitiers ; Henry the Young King ; and Matilda, Duchess of Saxony.

Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine's oldest son, William IX, Count of Poitiers, died in 1156, before Richard's birth.

William of Poitiers claimed that the battle was won mainly through William's efforts, but earlier accounts claim that King Henry's men and leadership also played an important part.

No English source mentions a supposed embassy by Archbishop Robert to William conveying the promise of the succession, and the two Norman sources that mention it, William of Jumièges and William of Poitiers, are not precise in their chronology of when this visit took place.

William of Poitiers describes a council called by Duke William, in which the writer gives an account of a great debate that took place between William's nobles and supporters over whether to risk an invasion of England.

William of Poitiers also relates that the duke obtained Pope Alexander II's consent for the invasion, along with a papal banner.

Although William of Poitiers and William of Jumieges disagree about where the fleet was built – Poitiers states it was constructed at the mouth of the River Dives while Jumieges states it was built at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – both agree that it eventually sailed from Valery-sur-Somme.

William of Poitiers wrote glowingly of William's reign and its benefits, but the obituary notice for William in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle condemns William in harsh terms.

* April – William IX, Count of Poitiers ( b. 1153 )

* August 17 – William IX, Count of Poitiers ( d. 1156 )

The history of Anjou may be told partly with the aid of the chroniclers of the neighbouring provinces, especially those of Normandy ( William of Poitiers, William of Jumièges, Ordericus Vitalis ) and of Maine ( especially Actus pontificum cenomannis in urbe degentium ).

* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had " gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

Intelligent design advocate William Dembski gives this definition:

According to John of Fordun, whose account is the original source of part at least of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Malcolm's mother was a niece of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, but an earlier king-list gives her the Gaelic name Suthen.

* Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.

William of Ockham believed " only faith gives us access to theological truths.

* William Harvey gives his views on the circulation of blood as Lumleian Lecturer at the College of Physicians.

For example, William gives the date of Amalric's death as 11 July 1173, when it actually occurred in 1174.

On the way, just outside the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel, the army become mired in quicksand and Harold saves two Norman soldiers .< sup >( scene 17 )</ sup > William's army chases Conan from Dol de Bretagne to Rennes, and Conan finally surrenders at Dinan .< sup >( scene 20 )</ sup > William gives Harold arms and armour ( possibly knighting him ) and Harold takes an oath on saintly relics .< sup >( scene 23 )</ sup > Although the writing on the tapestry explicitly states an oath is taken there is no clue as to what is being promised.

William of Malmesbury in his De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie gives the Old Celtic Ineswitrin ( or Ynys Witrin ) as its earliest name, and asserts that the founder of the town was the eponymous Glast, a descendant of Cunedda.

Graham gives a solution by William W. Johnson of Cleveland for the general case of unequal circles.

William of Tyre knew Baldwin personally and gives a lengthy description of the king:

The medieval writer William of Poitiers gives the same reason, but also adds that Robert took with him as hostages Godwin's son Wulfnoth and grandson Hakon ( son of Sweyn ).

* June 25 – The Young Musicians ' Symphony Orchestra of London, conducted by James Blair, gives the belated premiere of William Walton's 1962 composition Prelude for Orchestra.

The Victorian antiquarian Sir William Jones described the Claddagh, and gives Chambers ' Book of Days as the source, in his book Finger-Ring Lore.

* William Goes to the Pictures-William's aunt gives him sixpence, and he goes to the cinema.

* William Jaco JSJ Decomposition of 3-manifolds This lecture gives a brief introduction to Seifert fibered 3-manifolds and provides the existence and uniqueness theorem of Jaco, Shalen, and Johannson for the JSJ decomposition of a 3-manifold.

William Shakespeare made use of such an event in King Lear: one of Cordelia's suitors gives up his suit upon hearing that King Lear will give her no dowry.

William H. Whitmore gives his death as of 1748, the year of Mrs. Copley's remarriage.

William of Poitiers shows that castles were an important part of Norman society, and gives the impression that they could be a double edged sword.

Amongst his pupils at St John's were William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, who married Cheke's sister Mary, and Roger Ascham, who in The Scholemaster gives Cheke the highest praise for scholarship and character.

He tells his boss, Walker ( William Lucking ) that he wants out, and his boss gives him one last job, head down to South America and get his son Travis ( Seann William Scott ).

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

Images of James Beckworth, Biddy Mason, and William Leidesdorff are portrayed in the well detailed historical mural.

* The history of smog in LA is detailed in Smogtown by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly ( Overlook Press ).

Starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez and Edmond O ' Brien, the film detailed a gang of veteran outlaws on the Texas / Mexico border in 1913 trying to exist within a rapidly approaching modern world.

King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny ( Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, 2011 ), detailed popular biography

William Rufus inherited the Anglo-Norman settlement detailed in the Domesday Book, a survey undertaken at his father's command, essentially for the purposes of taxation, which could not have been undertaken anywhere else in Europe at that time, and is a sign of the control of the English monarchy.

Palaeontologist Christopher McGowan examined a copy she made of an 1824 paper by William Conybeare on marine reptile fossils and noted that the copy included several pages of her detailed technical illustrations that he was hard pressed to tell apart from the original.

Eminent canal engineer William Jessop oversaw the project, but he left the detailed execution of the project in Telford's hands.

This final model, sold by Kenner Toys and dubbed the " Knight Rider Voice Car ", spoke electronically ( actual voice of William Daniels ), featured a detailed interior and a Michael Knight action figure as well.

For instance, in The Tempest, Shakespeare borrowed from a manuscript by William Strachey that detailed an actual shipwreck of the Virginia-bound 17th-century English sailing vessel Sea Venture in 1609 on the islands of Bermuda.

Part of the reason that de la Peña's memoirs are questioned comes from his detailed account of Col. William Travis ' death in " With Santa Anna in Texas ".

Typical of the era is the long and detailed study of William Ewart Gladstone, who among his many talents was a trained classicist.

William Hone wrote about a visit to the Crooked Billet in 1827 and included a detailed sketch of the last building on the original site.

When he returned to the subject many years later, the narrative became more personal: In William Rush and His Model ( 1908 ), gone are the chaperon and detailed interior of the earlier work.

Although William did not know him personally like Fulcher did, he left a detailed description of him:

Military aviation began there on 12 March 1912, when 1st Lt. Frank P. Lahm of the 7th Cavalry, detailed to the Division, opened the Philippine Air School on the polo field of Fort William McKinley, using a single Wright B airplane to train pilots.

His son William Cope Moyers ( CNN producer, Hazelden Foundation spokesman ) struggled to overcome alcoholism as detailed in the book Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption.

At mid-century, the influence of John Ruskin led to increasing interest in watercolors and particularly in use of a detailed " Ruskinian " style by such artists as John W. Hill Henry, William Trost Richards, Roderick Newman, and Fidelia Bridges.

The invention of the marine chronometer in the late 18th century enabled Western explorers, such as Jean Francois de Galaup from France, William Robert Broughton from Britain, and Adam Johann von Krusenstern ( Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern ) from Russia, to measure time and longitudes on the sea precisely and map the detailed shape of the Sea of Japan.

New England was not the only area in the colonies ; southern literature is represented by the diary of William Byrd of Virginia, as well as by The History of the Dividing Line, which detailed the expedition to survey the swamp between Virginia and North Carolina but which also comments on the different lifestyles of the Native Americans and the white settlers in the area.

En route to Madison Barracks, New York, he exchanged telegrams from Hawaii with an assistant executive of the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, Major William " Billy " Mitchell, who alerted him that he was being detailed to the Signal Corps again, as a first lieutenant if he chose non-flying status.

Retributive justice began to replace such systems following the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066 A. D. William the Conqueror's son, Henry I, detailed offenses against the “ king ’ s peace .” By the end of the 11th century, crime was no longer perceived as injurious to persons, but rather was seen as an offense against the state.

William of Poitiers presents a detailed picture of Norman France prior to 1066, as the first part of the history narrates the various rebellions William faced in his early reign.