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The County of Anjou (UK: / ˈ ɒ̃ ʒ uː, ˈ æ̃ ʒ uː /, US: / ɒ̃ ˈ ʒ uː, ˈ æ n (d) ʒ uː, ˈ ɑː n ʒ uː /; [1] [2] [3] French:; Latin: Andegavia) was a French county that was the predecessor to the Duchy of Anjou. Its capital was Angers, and its area was roughly co-extensive with the diocese of Angers.
The Count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by King Charles the Bald of West Francia in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son, Fulk the Red, were viscounts until Fulk assumed the title of count. Ingelger's male line ended with Geoffrey II.
A page from the manuscript BnF lat. 6218, containing the earliest and shortest copy of the Gesta.This passage concerns Count Geoffrey the Bearded.. The Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum ("Chronicle of the deeds of the consuls of Anjou"), or simply Gesta consulum Andegavorum, is a Latin history of the Ingelgerian dynasty of the county of Anjou written in the early 12th century, probably ...
The House of Ingelger (French: Ingelgeriens), also known as The Ingelgerians, was a lineage of the Frankish nobility, and the first dynasty in Anjou, where they established the autonomy and power of the county of Anjou between 930 and 1060. [1] It was founded by Ingelger (died 886), Viscount of Angers, whose son Fulk the Red made himself count ...
The county of Anjou was united to the royal domain between 1205 and 1246, when it was turned into an apanage for the king's brother, Charles I of Anjou.This second Angevin dynasty, a branch of the Capetian dynasty, established itself on the thrones of Naples and Sicily, and the joint throne of Croatia and Hungary.
1417–1434 Louis III of Anjou, Duke of Anjou and Touraine, nominal King of Sicily (1417), Duke of Calabria (1424), son of Louis II 1434–1480 René I of Naples the Good , Count of Guise (1417–1422), Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1431), King of Naples and (nominal) Sicily and Jerusalem (1434–1442), Duke of Anjou and Touraine (1434), King of ...
County of Anjou, a historical county in France and predecessor of the Duchy of Anjou Count of Anjou, title of nobility; Duchy of Anjou, ...
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