Geoffroy, count of Angoulême

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: December 1048.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given on Leo van de Pas’s “Genealogics” website, citing Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.). III 817.

Place of Burial: Abbaye de Saint-Cybard.

The place is given by père Anselme (3:125).

Relationships

Father: Guillaume (IV), count of Angoulême.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:125),by Bachrach (p. 266), and by Barthélemy (p. 612).

Mother: Gerberge d’Anjou.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:125) and by Bachrach (p. 266), who combines her with Ermengarde.

Spouse: Petronille d’Archiac.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:125) and on Leo van de Pas’s “Genealogics” website, citing Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.). III 817.

Spouse: Asceline.

This relationship is given by Cawley.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Foulques Taillefer (died 1087), count of Angoulême, married Condoha d’Eu.

Humberge married Adémar de Limoges.

Geoffroy Rudel.

Gerberge married Audoin, lord of Barbezieux.

a daughter married the lord of Chabanais.

Arnaud.

Mainard.

Guillaume (died 20 September 1076), bishop of Angoulême.

Adémar (died 1 September 1101), bishop of Angoulême.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Bachrach, Bernard S. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count, (University of California Press, 1993).

Barthélemy, Dominique. L’an mil et la paix de dieu: la France chrétienne et féodale 980-1060, (Fayard, 1999).

Cawley, Charles. “GEOFFROY d'Angoulême” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

“Geoffroy” on Leo’s Genealogics Website [accessed 22 April 2018].