144:. Due to his relative youth, throughout his rule William faced challenges from the Provençal lords, including the seizing of his family's ecclesiastical interests. These conflicts escalated until William died 4 March 1019, while fighting the castellans of Fos and Hyères, and the two widows, Adelaide and Gerberga, were forced to call on the assistance of Adelaide's older son,
230:, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Apr., 1981), pp. 268–287). However, this was based on a misunderstanding of a document that referred to Otto William and Adelaide-Blanche without ever indicating the two were married. Several recent scholars who specifically studied the question see no bar to making William II Adelaide's son, as he is explicitly called in contemporary documents.
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125:, who were married by January 984. William appears in the documents of his father from 992, and succeeded the elder William on the latter's retirement to a monastery just before his death in 994, but as a minor he fell under the control of his paternal uncle,
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