Guillaume (IV), count of Angoulême

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 6 April 1028.

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. Père Anselme (3:124) gives 8 April 1028.

Place of Death: unknown.

Place of Burial: Angoulême, Abbaye de Saint-Cybard.

The place is given by père Anselme (3:124).

Relationships

Father: Arnaud “Mancer”, count of Angoulême.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:124) and by Barthélemy (p. 612).

Mother: Raingarde.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:124) and on Leo van de Pas’s “Genealogics” website, citing Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.). III 817.

Spouse: Gerberge d’Anjou.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:124) and by Baldwin.

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.)

Arnaud.

Guillaume.

Hilduin (died 1032), count of Angoulême, married Alaisia de Fronsac.

Geoffroy (died December 1048), count of Angoulême, married (1) Petronille d’Archiac; married (2) Asceline.

Foulques married Aynora.

Odon.

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).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Geoffroy I "Grisegonelle" (Geoffrey Greycloak, Gaufridus/Gauzfredus Grisegonella)” in The Henry Project.

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

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

“Guillaume IV Taillefer” on Leo’s Genealogics Website [accessed 22 April 2018].