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Foulques "Taillefer" Comte d'Angoulême
(-1087)
Condoha d'Eu
Guillaume Amanieu Vicomte de Bezaume
(-Bef 1103)
William III Count of Angoulême
(Abt 1084-1120)
Vitapoi de Bezaume
Vulgrin II Comte d'Angoulême
(Abt 1108-1140)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Pontia de la Marche

Vulgrin II Comte d'Angoulême 1 2 3

  • Born: Abt 1108, Angoulême, Angoumois, (Charente, France)
  • Marriage (1): Pontia de la Marche
  • Died: 16 Sep 1140, Château de Bouteville, Bouteville, Angoumois, (Charente, France) about age 32
  • Buried: Saint-Éparche, Angoulême, Angoumois, (Charente, France)

   Other names for Vulgrin were Wulgrin II Count of Angoulême and Ponce de la Marche and Bougrin Taillifer.

  Research Notes:

From Wikipedia - Wulgrin II, Count of Angoulême :

Wulgrin II (also Vulgrin or Bougrin), called Taillifer or Rudel, was the Count of Angoulême from 1120 to his death on 16 November 1140.[1] He was a son of Count William III and he married Pontia de la Marche, daughter of Roger the Poitevin and Almodis, the daughter of count Aldebert II of La Marche. They had only one son, William IV of Angoulême . After the death of his first wife, Wulgrin remarried to Amable de Châtellerault and had three children: Fulk, Geoffrey "Martel" and an unnamed daughter.

He retook Blaye from William X of Aquitaine in 1127 and reconstructed the castle there in 1140.[2]

The troubadour Jaufré Rudel may be possibly his son or his son-in-law.[2]

  Birth Notes:

May have been born about 1089 in Angouleme.

  Death Notes:

May have died on 16 Nov 1140 (burial date?).

  Noted events in his life were:

• Count of Angoulême, 1118-1140.


Vulgrin married Pontia de la Marche, daughter of Roger "the Poitevin" Montgomery and Almodis Countess of La Marche. (Pontia de la Marche was born in <La Marche, (France)>.)


Sources


1 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Wulgrin II, Count of Angoulême. Cit. Date: 12 Sep 2009.

2 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 153A-25 (Marguerite de Turenne).

3 Website:, http://cybergata.com/roots/1121.htm. Cit. Date: 29 Jun 2013.


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