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Aimar V Boso (c.
1135, in
Limoges – c.
1199) was the
Viscount of Limoges, a petty nobleman in the
Loire valley in the
Duchy of Aquitaine.
Aimar was orphaned at a young age and raised by his relatives among the southern French aristocracy. He ruled from 1148 - 1199.
Aimar is most famously known for being a fulcrum of insurrection against
King Richard I of England, who was also the
Duke of Aquitaine in right of his mother
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Richard's full title being "Richard I, By the Grace of God, King of the English, Duke of the Normans and Aquitanians, Count of the Angevins"). Aimar, like many of the fractious Aquitanian nobles, participated in sporadic rebellion against ducal authority throughout his adult life, often co-operating with Duke Richard's brothers, the Count of
Angouleme and the house of
Lusignan, though he was generally brought to heel.
It was while suppressing one of Aimar's revolts that King Richard was to meet his end. The Duke was besieging the
Château de Chalus-Chabrol, a small and scantly garrisoned castle in
Limousin,
France under the control of Aimar, when he was shot by a
crossbow, possibly fired by a certain
Pierre Basile. Richard was hit in the shoulder and died days later on
April 6, 1199.
Aimar's disinclination to obey the
Plantagenet dukes was encouraged by
Bertran de Born, a
baron and
troubadour of the
Saint Martial School. A lament for the Viscomte by another troubadour,
Giraut de Bornelh, suggests that Aimar died unexpectedly.
Roger of Hoveden claims that he was killed by
Philip of Cognac, King Richard's bastard son, who thus succeeded in punishing Aimar's long career of contumacy and his role in Richard's death. This story is held as tradition, and though there's little hard evidence behind it, it was adapted by
William Shakespeare in his history play
King John, where Philip, the "Bastard of Falconbridge", kills a composite of Richard's enemies described as "Lymoges, Duke of
Austria".
Aimar married
Sarah de Dunstanville, daughter of
Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall, at
Bordeaux in 1159.. His daughter and heiress, Marie de Limoges, married
Eble V of Ventadorn, the viscount of Ventadour.
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