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Ingelger d'Orléans et d'Angers
b.Est 845 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
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m. Abt 844
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m. Abt 869
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Ingelger (died 888), also called Ingelgarius, was a Frankish nobleman, who was the founder of the County of Anjou and of the original House of Anjou. Later generations of his family believed he was the son of Tertullus (Tertulle) and Petronilla. Around 877 he inherited his father Tertullus' lands in accordance with the Capitulary of Quierzy, which Charles the Bald had issued. His father's holdings from the king included Château-Landon in , and he was a in the Gâtinais and Francia. Contemporary records refer to Ingelger as a , a great military man. Later family tradition makes his mother a relative of Hugh the Abbot, an influential counselor of both Louis II and Louis III of France, 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.[1] At Orléans Ingelger made a matrimonial alliance with one of the leading families of Neustria, the lords of Amboise. He married Adelais, 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.[1] 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 defence of the region from Vikings, but modern scholars have been more likely to see it as a result of his wife's influential relatives.[1] Ingelger was buried in the church of Saint-Martin at Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe. He was succeeded by his son Fulk the Red. [edit] NamesIngelger is an historical figure, but little about is known about him from contemporary records. He was created Viscount of Touraine and Anjou about 870. Charles II "le Chauve" King of the West Franks gave him "a piece of a fief in the castle of Landonense." He was installed as viscount of the city of Orléans by Louis II "le Bègue," King of the West Franks, and appointed royal representative at Tours. He was installed as count in the town of Angers as a reward for having defended the area so effectively against the Normans. [edit] LinksIngelger was a viscount who held territory around Orléans and Angers at the end of the 9th century. His son Fulk became the first count of Anjou. After Robert the Strong, he directed the resistance to the Norman invasions on the Loire. Through his descendant Geoffrey Plantagenet, father of Henry II of England, he is an ancestor to the present-day British royal family, including Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and her son, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. , Ingelgerius Child 1: , Fulk I the Red of Anjou, Count of Anjou
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