Death of William X of Aquitaine
April 8, 1137
The troubadour-duke of Aquitaine died on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, leaving his vast lands to his daughter Eleanor. Within weeks the girl was married off to the future Louis VII of France on her father's deathbed instructions. Eleanor inherited the largest and richest duchy in France, its courts the cradle of troubadour poetry, its revenues greater than those of the Capetian crown itself.
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