Count of Poitiers

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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:

  • Bodilon
  • Warinus (638–677), son of Bodilon
  • (735-778)

Carolingian Counts

  • Bernard I [fr] (814-828)
  • Renaud (795–843)
  • Bernard II (840 - 844)
  • Emenon or Emeno (828 – 839), brother of Bernard II
  • Ranulph I (839–866)
  • Ranulph II (866–890),[1] son of Ranulph I
  • (857–892)
  • Robert I (866–923)
  • Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (890–892) (illegitimate son of Ranulph II)(first reign– 890–893)(second reign– 902–935) [1]
  • (892–902) (son of Emenon)
  • Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (restored) (902–935) [1]
  • William I (935–963) (son of Ebalus) [1]
  • William II (963–995) (son of William I) [1]
  • William III (969–1030) (son of William II) [1]
  • William IV (1030–1038) (1st son of William III) [1]
  • Odo (Eudes) (1038–1039) (2nd son of William III) [1]
  • William V (1039–1058) (3rd son of William III) [1]
  • William VI (1058–1086) (4th son of William III) [1]
  • William VII (1071–1126) (son of William VI) [1]
  • William VIII (1099–1137) (son of William VII) [1]
  • Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine [1]
  • William IX (1153–1156) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England
  • Richard I (1169–1196) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England [1]
  • Otto (1196–1198)
  • Richard I again (1198–1199) [1]
  • Richard II (1224) younger brother of Henry III of England
  • Alphonse I (1220–1271) son of Louis VIII of France
  • Philip I (1293–1322)
  • John I (1319–1364)
  • John II (1340–1416) son of John I
  • John III (1398–1417) son of Charles VI of France
  • Charles (1403–1461)
  • (r. 1695–1715)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties And Kingdoms Of The World, by R F Tapsell, 1983, Facts On File, Inc., New York, NY, page 211.
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