Guiraude de Dax (fl. c. 1100 – c. 1130) was a
Gascon heiress. She was the daughter of
Arnaud III Raymond Arnaud may refer to:
People
* Arnaud (given name) or Arnauld (formerly Arnoul), the French form of the German given name Arnold
* Arnaud (surname) or Arnauld (formerly Arnoul), the French form of the name Arnold
* Arnauld family, a noble French f ...
,
vicomte de Dax
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In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
, who died c. 1090.
Overview
Guiraude was married to a distant cousin,
Arnaud Dat Arnaud may refer to:
People
* Arnaud (given name) or Arnauld (formerly Arnoul), the French form of the German given name Arnold
* Arnaud (surname) or Arnauld (formerly Arnoul), the French form of the name Arnold
* Arnauld family, a noble French f ...
, lord of
Mixe and
Ostabarret, and with the death of her brother, vicomte Pierre Arnaud, without issue (c. 1120), she and her husband succeeded to vicomte. Their marriage had reunited the two branches of descent from
Arnaud Loup, the first vicomte of Dax, who died prior to 1020.
Vicomtesse Guiraude was the mother of
Raymond II Arnaud, vicomte de Dax (c. 1100-1167), and through her great-granddaughter,
Navarre de Dax, the wife of
Raimond Arnaud,
vicomte de Tartas, Guiraude was the ancestor of that family, as well the seigneurs
d'Albret.
References
* P.D. Abbott, ''Provinces, Pays, and Seigneuries of France,'' Canberra (1981)
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12th-century French women
12th-century French people
French vicomtesses