d'Anjou, Ingelger I

845 - 888  (43 years)

• Name	d'Anjou, Ingelger  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	I
  Birth	845	Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Appointments / Titles	Comte d'Anjou
  Appointments / Titles	Comte d'Orleans
  House	House of Ingelger  [1, 3]
  FSID	LBKG-X1C  [1, 3]
  Death	888	Tours, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France   [2, 3]
  Burial	888	Châteauneuf, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I34493	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	d'Anjou, Tertulle,   b. 821, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 877, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	d'Auxerre, Petronille,   b. 825, Aach, Trier-Saarburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. Between 845 and 860, France (Age 20 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	839	Châteauneuf, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France
  Family ID	F13624	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	de Buzançais, Adelais,   b. 850, Tours, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France d. 890, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	869	Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France   [1, 3]
  Children	1. d'Anjou, Fulk I,   b. 870, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 13 Aug 938, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 68 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F13619	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 845 - Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France Marriage - 869 - Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France Death - 888 - Tours, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France Burial - 888 - Châteauneuf, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Ingelger or Ingelgarius (died 888) 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's 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 beneficium, and he was a casatus in the Gâtinais and Francia. Contemporary records refer to Ingelger as a miles optimus, 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. 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. At some point Ingelger was appointed Count of Anjou, at a time when the county stretched only as far west as the Mayenne River. 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. He was buried in the church of Saint-Martin at Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe. He was succeeded by his son Fulk the Red. His wife was Adelais. Her good connections may have helped her husband gain the title of Count of Anjou.

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] WORLD: Family Search, Family Tree. https://www.familysearch.org/search/tree/name [S788] WORLD: Wikipedia. https://www.wikipedia.org/ [S791] WORLD: Ancestry Family Trees. https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/42/