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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.
Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy 1410s or 7 August 1420 1424/31 August 1432 12 November 1434 husband's death: 30 September 1479 Louis III: Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine: Charles II, Duke of Lorraine c. 1400 24 October 1420 12 November 1434 husband's ascension: 28 February 1453 René: Jeanne de Laval: Guy XIV de Laval, Count of Laval
Lambert, a former count of Nantes, devastated Anjou in concert with Nominoé, duke of Brittany. By the end of the year 851, he had succeeded in occupying all the western part as far as the Mayenne . The principality which he thus carved out for himself was occupied on his death by Erispoé, duke of Brittany .
Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the Fair (French: le Bel), Plantagenet, and of Anjou, was the count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also duke of Normandy by his marriage claim, and conquest, from 1144. Geoffrey married Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, king of England and duke of Normandy.
[4] [5] Anjou itself was united to the royal domain again in 1328, but was detached in 1360 as the Duchy of Anjou for the king's son, Louis I of Anjou. The third Angevin dynasty, a branch of the House of Valois, also ruled for a time the Kingdom of Naples. The dukes had the same autonomy as the earlier counts, but the duchy was increasingly ...
Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, also Charles of Maine, Count of Le Maine and Guise (1446 – 10 December 1481), was the son of the Angevin prince Charles of Maine, Count of Maine and Isabelle of Luxembourg-Saint-Pol. [1] He succeeded his father as Count of Maine, Guise, Mortain and Gien in 1472.
In 1579, negotiations commenced for marrying Anjou to Elizabeth I of England. The Duke of Anjou was in fact the only one of Elizabeth's foreign suitors to court her in person. He made two visits to England, in 1579 and 1581. [4] He was 24 and Elizabeth was 46. Despite the age gap, the two soon became very close, Elizabeth dubbing him her "frog."
Counts and dukes of Anjou; A. Arthur I, Duke of Brittany; C. Charles I of Anjou; Charles II of Naples; Charles, Count of Valois; F. Fulk II, Count of Anjou; Fulk III ...