NameDangereuse DE L'ISLE BOUCHARD, 26G Grandmother
Spouses
ChildrenAenor (1103->1130)
Web Notes notes for Dangereuse DE L'ISLE BOUCHARD
Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (183:3), she m. AIMERY I in 1109 and bore him ELEANOR. She later became the mistress of WILLIAM IX, DUKE OF AQUITAINE, the father of ELEANOR's husband. Amy Kelly's "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings", p.6: "When the famous troubadour, [GUILLAUME VII/IX] returned from his disastrous crusade early in the century in a very cynical mood, he found his countess, PHILIPPA OF TOULOUSE, taken up with one of those religious movements perennially arising on the soil of Aquitaine. Being at the time less than usually inclined to spiritual restoratives, he abandoned his lady with her innocent nose in a breviary and rapt away the Countess of Chatellerault [Dangerose] to enliven his middle years."