Counts and Dukes of Angoulême

The county of Angoulême Angoulême with its capital was already in the 9th century. She was up to the beginning of the 13th century in the possession of the House of Taillefer, and was then passed on to the house of Lusignan.

1308 took over the French crown, the county, she added in the Domaine royal, and gave them as Paragium and later as a duchy Angoulême within the family further.

List of Counts and Dukes of Angoulême

Count of Angoulême

First Count

  • 839-863: Turpion, † October 4 863 in the fight against the Normans
  • 863-866: Emenon, † June 22 866, whose brother

House of Taillefer

  • 866-886: Vulgrin I, Count of Angoulême, Périgord and Agen
  • 886-916: Alduin I., whose son
  • 916-926: Adémar, former Count of Poitiers, nephew Turpions, ∞ Sancia, probably daughter of Vulgrin I.
  • 926-945: William II Taillefer, son Alduin I.
  • 945-950: Bernard, son of William I of Perigord, so first cousin of his predecessor
  • 950-952: Arnaud Barnabé, whose son
  • 952-962: William III. Talleyrand, whose brother
  • 962-975: Ranulf Bompar, whose brother
  • 975-998: Arnaud Manzer, illegitimate son of William II Rain Guards I ∞, ∞ II Hilde Bard d' Aunay
  • 989-1028: William IV Taillefer, son Arnaud and Rain Gardes, ∞ Gerberge, daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Anjou
  • 1028-1031: Alduin II, whose son, ∞ Adélaïde de Fronsac
  • 1031-1047: Gottfried, whose brother, ∞ Pétronille d' Archiac
  • 1047-1087: Fulk, whose son, ∞ Condoha de Vegena
  • 1087-1120: William V Taillefer, whose son, ∞ Vitapoy de Bénauges
  • 1120-1140: Vulgrin II, whose son, ∞ Ponce de Montgomery
  • 1140-1179: Wilhelm VI. Taillefer, whose son, ∞ Marguerite de Turenne
  • 1179-1181: Vulgrin III, whose son, ∞ Elisabeth d' Amboise.
  • 1181-1186: Wilhelm VII Taillefer, whose brother
  • 1186-1203: Aymar, whose brother, ∞ Alice de Courtenay
  • 1203-1246: Isabella, whose daughter, ∞ King John of England and then with Hugo X of Lusignan

House of Lusignan

  • After the death of Guido whose sisters Johanna and Isabella sold the county of Angoulême to King Philip IV. , The county remained in the Domaine royal until King Charles IV in 1325 to his cousin Philip of Évreux, and Charles VI. She gave as an appanage to his younger brother Louis of Orléans.

House France Évreux

De la Cerda

House of Valois - Angoulême

1515: Return of Angoulême in the Domaine royal

Dukes of Angoulême

Para lusted Dukes

1619: Return to the Domaine royal

1696: Return to the Domaine royal

Titularherzöge of Angoulême

Orléanist pretenders

  • Eudes d' Orléans, third son of Henri d' Orléans, Duke of France and Count of Paris, duc, since 1987.
  • Duchy
  • Graf ( Angoulême )
  • Duke ( Angoulême )
  • Peerage
Crown lands of France Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou Counts and dukes of Anjou Alice of Courtenay Hugh X of Lusignan Hugh XI of Lusignan Hugh XII of Lusignan Hugh XIII of Lusignan Guy of Lusignan, Count of Angoulême Philip IV of France Philip III of Navarre Charles VI of France Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans Louise of Savoy Henry II of France Charles IX of France Marie Touchet Charles X of France List of heirs to the French throne
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