Among the people who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine) are:
- Guerin (or Warin[us]) (638–677)
- Hatton (735-778)
- Renaud (795–843)
- Bernard I (815–844)
- Emenon or Emeno (828 – 839),
- Ranulph I (835–866)
- Ranulph II (866–890)
- Gauzbert (857–892)
- Robert I (866–923)
- Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (890–892) (illegitimate son of Ranulf II of Poitiers)
- Aymar (892–902)
- Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (restored) (902–935) (illegitimate son of Ranulf II of Poitiers)
- William III of Aquitaine (935–963) aka: William I of Poitou (son of Ebalus of Aquitaine)
- William IV of Aquitaine (963–995) aka: William II of Poitou (son of William III of Aquitaine)
- William V of Aquitaine (969–1030) aka: William III of Poitou (son of William IV of Aquitaine)
- William VI of Aquitaine (1030–1038) aka: William IV of Poitou (1st son of William V of Aquitaine)
- Odo of Gascony (1038–1039) aka: Eudes (2nd son of William V of Aquitaine)
- William VII of Aquitaine (1039–1058) aka: William V of Poitou (3rd son of William V of Aquitaine)
- William VIII of Aquitaine (1058–1086) aka: William VI of Poitou (4th son of William V of Aquitaine)
- William IX of Aquitaine (1071–1126) aka: William VII of Poitou (son of William VIII of Aquitaine)
- William X of Aquitaine (1099–1137) aka: William VIII of Poitou (son of William IX of Aquitaine)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine
- Louis VII of France (1137–1180)** obtained title through marriage to Eleanore of Aquitaine (Queen of France)
- Henry II of England (1133–1189)**obtained title through marriage to Eleanore of Aquitaine (Queen of England)
- William Plantagenet (1153–1156) son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England
- Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1196–1218)
- Richard of Cornwall (1224) younger brother of Henry III of England
- Alphonse Capet (1220–1271) son of Louis VIII of France
- Philip V of France (1293–1322)
- John II of France (1319–1364)
- John, Duke of Berry (1340–1416) son of John II of France
- John, Dauphin of France (1398–1417) son of Charles VI of France
- Charles VII of France (1403–1461)
- François Joseph de Rye (r. 1695–1715)
Charles Louis Edmond "de Bourbon", a pretender to the French throne, has used the title. His claim was disproven in 1998 when DNA tests showed that his grandfather, Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, was not Louis XVII of France.
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