Counts and dukes of Angouleme

Angouleme (Angoumois) in western France was part of the Carolingian empire as the kingdom of Aquitaine. Under Charlemagne's successors, the local count of Angouleme 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 Angouleme

• 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 (1140-1178) (under English control from 1152-?)
• Wulgrin III (1178-1181)
• William V (1181-1188)
  • Ademar (1181-1218)
  • Mathilde (1181-1208)
• Hugh I (1218-1249)
• Hugh II (1249-1260)
• Hugh III (1260-1282)
• Hugh IV (1282-1303)
• Guy (1303-1308)
• part of Aquitaine (1308-1317)
• Philip III (1317-1343)
• Charles II (1343-1387) (directly part of France after 1373)
• Charles III (1387-1404)
• Louis I (1404-1407)
• John (1407-1467)
• Charles (1467-1496)
• Francis (1496-1515)

Dukes of Angouleme

• Louise (1515-1531)
• part of France (1531-1540)
• Charles (1540-1545)
• part of France (1545-1551)
• Henry (1551-1582)
• Diane (1582-1619)
• Charles (1619-1650)
• Louis Emmanuel (1650-1653)
• Frances Marie (1653-1696)
  • Louis II (1653-1654)
• part of France (1654-1675)
• Elizabeth (1675-1696)
• part of France (1696-1710)
• Charles Emmanuel, duke of Berry (1710-1714)
• part of France (1714-1773)
• Charles Philip (1773-1836)
• Louis Anthony (1836-1844)
• part of France after 1844