Sancho VI William (
Basque
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: ''Antso Gilen'',
French: ''Sanche Guillaume'',
Gascon: ''Sans Guilhem'',
Spanish: ''Sancho Guillén'') (died 4 October 1032) was the
Duke of Gascony from 1009 to his death. His reign is most notable for the renewal of Gascons ties with Spain.
Sancho was a son of
William II Sánchez and
Urraca of Navarre and relative of
Sancho III of Navarre and he spent a portion of his life at the court of that king in
Pamplona
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Lying at near above sea level, the city (and the wider Cuenca de Pamplona) is located on the flood pl ...
. He also took part in the
Reconquista
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. It is possible he even submitted Gascony to the suzerainty of Navarre. In 1010, he appeared together with Sancho,
Robert II of France
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, and
William V of Aquitaine at
Saint-Jean d'Angély. He certainly never paid homage to the
king of France
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Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Fra ...
.
In 1027, he met
William V William V may refer to:
* William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969–1030)
* William V of Montpellier (1075–1121)
* William V, Marquess of Montferrat (1191)
* William V, Count of Nevers (before 11751181)
* William V, Duke of Jülich (1299–1361)
* Will ...
at
Blaye and they jointly selected
Geoffrey, a
Frank, as
Archbishop of Bordeaux, which had become the Gascon capital during Sancho's reign. He had given his sister Brisca in marriage to the widower duke William and when he died without successors in 1032, the Aquitainian duke's children by this second marriage inherited Gascony.
Sources
*Higounet, Charles. ''Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age''. Bordeaux, 1963.
*Lewis, Archibald R. ''The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050''. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1965.
*
Zurita, Gerónimo. ''Anales de la Corona de Aragón I''. Edited by Antonio Ubieto Arteta and Desamparados Pérez Soler. Valencia: 1967.
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1032 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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