William VI of Angoulême (died 1179) was also known as William Taillefer IV. The eldest son of Count Wulgrin II of Angoulême and his first wife, Poncia, daughter of Roger the Poitevin and Almodis, he succeeded his father at the head of the county of Angoulême in 1140. William married Emma of Limoges(d?). He married a second time to Marguerite of Turenne, daughter of viscount Raymond I of Turenne. It is from him, that the territory was passed down through sons of William VI:

Wulgrin III of Angoulême Wulgrin III of Angoulême, also known as Wulgrin Taillefer II, inherited the title of Count of Angoulême and its territories from his father, William VI of Angoulême, in 1179. Historians have given a variety of dates for Wulgrin's ascension to the ...

who was the eldest,

William VII of Angoulême William VII of Angoulême (died 1186) was also known as William Taillefer V, was the Count of Angoulême from 1181. The second of three sons of William VI of Angoulême, he inherited the title of Count of Angoulême Count (feminine: countess) ...

and Aymer of Angoulême. After the death of Aymer, the territory did not pass to Aymer's daughter, Isabella of Angoulême, Queen consort to

John of England John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Emp ...

, but rather to the daughter of Wulgrim III,

Mathilde of Angoulême Mathilde of Angoulême (also Mahaut; after marriage Taillifer) (1181–1233) was the sole daughter of Wulgrin III, Count of Angoulême. After the death of her father, the title passed to her uncle, William VII of Angoulême. After her marriage to H ...

, who had married

Hugh IX of Lusignan Hugh IX "le Brun" of Lusignan (1163/1168 – 5 November 1219) was the grandson of Hugh VIII. His father, also Hugh (b. c. 1141), was the co-seigneur of Lusignan from 1164, marrying a woman named Orengarde before 1162 or about 1167 and dying i ...

, father of

Hugh X of Lusignan Hugh X de Lusignan, Hugh V of La Marche or Hugh I of Angoulême (c. 1183 – c. 5 June 1249, Angoulême) was Seigneur de Lusignan and Count of La Marche in November 1219 and was Count of Angoulême by marriage. He was the son of Hugh IX an ...

. Mathilde and Hugh IX had no children together, and Mathilde's step-son Hugh X later married Aymer's daughter Isabella, after the death of her first husband, king

. The eldest son of Hugh X and Isabella came to inherit Angouleme (to the exclusion of Isabella's five children by King John).

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