Counts and dukes of Angoulême

Angoulême (Angoumois) in western France was part of the Carolingian empire as the kingdom of Aquitaine. Under Charlemagne's successors, the local count of Angoulême was independent and was not united with the French crown until 1307. By the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Angoumois, then ruled by the counts of Angoulême, was ceded as English territory to Edward III. In 1371 it became a fief of the dukes of Berry, a cadet line of the French royal family. When François I, formerly the count of Angoulême, became king in 1515, Angoumois was definitively incorporated into the French crown lands, as a duchy.

Counts of Angoulême

House of Taillifer

Coat of Arms of the Counts of Angoulême.

• Turpion (839–863)
• Emenon (863–866)
• Wulgrin I (866–886)
• Alduin I (886–916)
• William I (916–962)
• Arnold I (962–975)
• Arnold II (975–987)
• William II (987–1028)
• Alduin II (1028–1032)
• Geoffrey (1032–1048)
• Fulk (1048–1089)
• William III (1089–1118)
• Wulgrin II (1118–1140)
• William IV (1140–1179)
• Wulgrin III (1179–1181)
• William V (1181–1186)
• Aymer (1186–1202)
• Isabella (1202–1246)

House of Lusignan

Coat of Arms of the Lords of Lusignan.

• Hugh I (1218–1249)
• Hugh II (1249–1260)
• Hugh III (1260–1282)
• Hugh IV (1282–1303)
• Guy (1303–1308)
• Part of Aquitaine (1308–1317)
• Royal Domain (1317–1328)

Royal Grantees

• Joan II (1328–1349) with her husband
  • Philip III (1328–1343)
• Charles de la Cerda (1350–1354)
• John I (1356–1374)
• Louis I (1404–1407), Duke of Orléans
• John II (1407–1467)
• Charles (1467–1496)
• Francis (1496–1515)

Dukes of Angoulême

Coat of Arms of the Counts of Angoulême of the Valois-Orleans family.

• Louise (1515–1531)
• Royal domain
• Charles (1540–1545)
• Royal domain
• Henry (1551–1574)
• Henry (1574–1582)
• Diane (1582–1619)
• Charles (1619–1650)
• Louis Emmanuel (1650–1653)
• Frances Marie (1653–1696)
  • Louis II (1653–1654)
• Royal domain
• Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (1675–1696)
• Royal domain
• Charles de France (1710–1714)
• Royal domain
• Charles Philippe de France (1773–1836)
• Louis Antoine d'Artois (1836–1844)
• Royal domain

Sources

• Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis; Lines: 177-26, 153A-25, 153A-27, 275-26