Ingelger (died 888), also called Ingelgarius, was a Frankish nobleman, who was the founder of the

County of Anjou The County of Anjou (, ; ; la, Andegavia) was a small French county that was the predecessor to the better-known Duchy of Anjou. Its capital was Angers, and its area was roughly co-extensive with the diocese of Angers. Anjou was bordered by Brit ...

and of the original House of Anjou. Later generations of his family believed that he was the son of Tertullus (Tertulle) and Petronilla. Around 877, he inherited his father Tertullus' lands in accordance with the

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, which Charles the Bald had issued. His father's holdings from the king included

Château-Landon Château-Landon () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. The commune contains within it the Souppes-sur-Loing quarry, where the bright white travertine stones for construction of the S ...

in , and he was a in the Gâtinais and Francia. Contemporary records refer to Ingelger as a , a great military man. Later, in accordance with family tradition, his mother was made a relative of

Hugh the Abbot Hugh the Abbot (died 12 May 886) was a member of the Welf family, a son of Conrad I of Auxerre and Adelaide. After his father's death, his mother apparently married Robert the Strong, the margrave of Neustria. On Robert's death in 866, Hugh beca ...

, an influential counselor of both Louis II and

Louis III of France Louis III (863/65—5 August 882) was King of West Francia (a precursor to the Kingdom of France) from 879 until his death in 882. He succeeded his father Louis the Stammerer, and ruled over West Francia in tandem with his brother Carloman II. L ...

, from whom he received preferment. By Louis II Ingelger was appointed viscount of Orléans, which city was under the rule of its bishops at the time. At Orléans Ingelger made a matrimonial alliance with one of the leading families of Neustria, the lords of

Amboise Amboise (; ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Today a small market town, it was once home of the French royal court. Geography Amboise lies on the banks of the river Loire, east of Tours. It is also about away f ...

. He married

Adelais Adelais is a given name that may refer to: * Adelaide of Auxerre, a name referring to multiple people and sometimes given as Adelais *Audelais of Benevento, name sometimes given as Adelais (lived 730s) *Adelais, daughter of Pepin the Short (d.768), ...

, whose maternal uncles were Adalard, Archbishop of Tours, and Raino, Bishop of Angers. Later Ingelger was appointed prefect (military commander) at Tours, then ruled by Adalard. At some point, Ingelger was appointed Count of Anjou, at a time when the county stretched only as far west as the river Mayenne. Later sources credit his appointment to his defense of the region from Vikings, but modern scholars have been more likely to see it as a result of his wife's influential relatives. Ingelger was buried in the Church of Saint-Martin at

Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Les Hauts-d'Anjou.Fulk the Red Fulk I of Anjou ( 870 – 942) — ("Fulk the Red", i.e., "Red Falcon") — held the county of Anjou first as viscount, then count, until his death. Life Born about 870, Fulk was the son of Ingelger of Anjou and Adelais of Amboise. He was the ...

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René Poupardin René Poupardin (27 February 1874 – 23 August 1927) was a French medievalist and paleographer whose most important works were on Burgundy, Provence and the south Italian principalities. He was an alumnus of the École nationale des chartes and a ...

''Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise''.
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The Legendary Ancestry of Fulko Rufus
Contains a well thought-out and referenced discussion of Ingelger's probable ancestry.
Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count
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Bernard S. Bachrach Bernard Stanley Bachrach (born 1939) is an American historian. He taught history at the University of Minnesota from 1967 until his retirement in 2020. He specializes in the Early Middle Ages, mainly on the topics of medieval warfare, medieval Je ...

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