Boniface, king of the Lombards. Among his seven sons and five daughters (one of whom marries Louis the Pious) is William. The defeat of the Moors at Orange was given legendary treatment in the 12th-century epic La Prise d'Orange. There, he was made Count of Toulouse in the stead of the disgraced Chorso, then King of Aquitaine in 778. He is difficult to separate from the legends and poems that gave him feats of arms, lineage and titles: Guillaume Fièrebras, Guillaum au Court-Nez (broken in a battle with a giant), Guillaum de Narbonne and Guillaume d'Orange. These legends turn his wife into a converted Saracen, Orable, later christened Guibourc. References Bouchard, Constance Brittain Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 2001. "L'Abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert" (in French) Metropolitan Museum:The Saint-Guilhem Cloister External links "The saint who married a Muslim princess", Catholic Herald, January 4, 2008 "Die altfranzösische Wilhelmsage und ihre beziehung zu Wilhelm dem Heiligen 1896" Saints from the Carolingian Empire French Roman Catholic saints Counts of Toulouse 750s births 810s deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain Characters in epic poems Roman Catholic royal saints 8th-century Frankish people 9th-century French people 9th-century Christian saints Medieval French saints