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
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conqu ...
, in 1179.
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Historians have given a variety of dates for Wulgrin's ascension to the countship. Watson (453) gives it as 1179, backed up by charter evidence (353–62). Geoffrey of Vigeois' chronicle (325–26) also declares William VI to have died in 1179 and Wulgrin III to have ruled for only two years.]
His untimely death was the first break in the house of Taillefer, which had ruled
Angoulême
Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a commune, the prefecture of the Charente department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Angoumoisins'' o ...
since the days of the Carolingians. As he had only one daughter,
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 ...
, the territory went to his younger brother,
William VII of Angoulême. Wulgrin's daughter, Mathilde, would marry
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 ...
, who would eventually inherit the kingdom, over the claims of
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 E ...
, through
Isabella of Angoulême
Isabella (french: Isabelle, ; c. 1186/ 1188 – 4 June 1246) was Queen of England from 1200 to 1216 as the second wife of King John, Countess of Angoulême in her own right from 1202 until her death in 1246, and Countess of La Marche from 1 ...
, the daughter of
Aymer of Angoulême, the third and youngest brother.
References
Sources
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Histoire P@ssion - Chronologie historique des Comtes d’Angoulême (in French)*L'art de Verifier des Faits historiques, des Chartes, des Chroniques, et Autres Anciens Monuments, Depuis la Naissance de Notre-Seigner ''by Moreau et Yalade'', 1818
Page 189*The coinage of the European continent, ''by Swan Sonnenschein'', 1893,
Page 276*Annuaire Historique Pour L'annee 1854, ''by Société de l'histoire de France''
Page 180*Nouvelle Encyclopedie Theologique, ''by acques-Paul Migne'', 1854
Page 903*Geoffrey of Vigeois. "Chronica Gaufredi coenobitae monasterii D. Martialis Lemovicensis, ac prioris Vosiensis coenobii." In ''Novae bibliothecae manuscriptorum librorum tomus secundus: rerum aquitanicarum. . . .'' Edited by Philippe Labbe, 279–342. Paris: Sebastian Cramoisy, 1657
(His chronicle, in Latin, on Gallica)*Watson, Rowan Charles. "The Counts of Angoulême from the 9th to the Mid 13th Century." PhD diss., University of East Anglia, 1979.
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