Guillaume Sanche

Guillaume Sanche (Guilhem-Sants) (towards 950 - 996), succeeds his/her Sanche-Sanche brother, died without heir, with the head of the Gascogne.

Family

It is resulting from the Sanche family, which reigns since the beginning of the 10th century at least on the Western part of Gascogne. He marries Urraca, sister of the king Sanche III of Navarre, and has five children of them:

Bernard Guillaume,
Sanche Guillaume.
Brisce, wife of Guillaume V of Poitiers, Count de Poitiers, duke of Aquitaine,
Garsende, wife of a large lord of Burgundy
Toda, woman of Bernard Ier, count of Besalu.

It is under its reign and that of its sons Bernard Guillaume and Sanche Guillaume that the dynasty will reach its apogee.

Presentation

Its marriage with Urraca reinforced the links with the countries of the southern slope of the Pyrenees. He saw towards 970 - 980 his states to also increase towards north, of the Resident of Agen and especially of the county of Bordeaux, bequeathed by his holder, Guillaume the Good. He would have demolishes the Viking S with the battle Taller in the Landes towards 988. Although the absence or the special character of the preserved documents hardly makes it possible to measure the range of its action elsewhere than in the religious field, it is manifest that its reign was decisive for the reorganization and the revival of Gascogne. One can of the remainder think that it is by this will that is explained partly the number of Abbaye S - ten - founded by him and by Urraca: it is known indeed that the hearths of intense spiritual life that are the monasteries always were, and in particular at that time, of the very active centers of economic life and cultural life, and which they thus brought certainly a considerable help to the count in the realization of his intentions.

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