Ingelger
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Ingelger | |
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| Count of Anjou | |
| Successor | Fulk I |
| Full name | Ingelger or Ingelgarius |
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| Buried | Church of Saint-Martin at Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe |
| Noble family | Ingelger |
| SpouseTemplate:Pluralize from text | Adelais of Amboise |
| Issue | Fulk the Red |
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Ingelger (845 – 888),[1] 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 that he was the son of Tertullus (Tertulle) and Petronilla.[a]
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 Script error: No such module "Lang"., and he was a Script error: No such module "Lang". in the Gâtinais and Francia. Contemporary records refer to Ingelger as a Script error: No such module "Lang"., an excellent soldier.[2]
Later, in accordance with family tradition, his mother was made a relative of Hugh the Abbot,[b] 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.[2] 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.[2][3]
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 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.[2][4]
Ingelger was buried in the Church of Saint-Martin at Châteauneuf, Allègre, France. He was succeeded by his son Fulk the Red.
Notes
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- ^ The anonymous twelfth-century Script error: No such module "Lang". names his father as Script error: No such module "Lang"., but both the name Tertullus and the title Script error: No such module "Lang". are unusual. Another twelfth-century source, the Script error: No such module "Lang". (c. 1180) records that Ingelger was Script error: No such module "Lang"., a nephew of Hugh, Duke of Burgundy (died 952) — chronologically stretched. Modern scholars are divided as to the historicity of Tertullus and Petronilla.
- ^ This man is distinct from abbot Hugh, son of Charlemagne, but the two are frequently confused, resulting in some 19th-century sources erroneously naming Petronilla as granddaughter of Charlemagne.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Anselm de Guibours; du Fourny, Honoré Caille (1730). 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 (in français). Vol. 6 (3rd ed.). Paris: Compagnie des Libraires.
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bachrach, Bernard S. (1993). Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987–1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 4–5. ISBN 0-520-07996-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Geary, Patrick J. (2006). Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 88.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Collins, Paul (2013). The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century. Perseus Books Group. p. 33.
External links
- Halphen, Louis and René Poupardin. Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise. Steve Lane, trans. Paris: Picard, 1913. Part of Medieval Sourcebook.
- The Legendary Ancestry of Fulko Rufus Contains a well thought-out and referenced discussion of Ingelger's probable ancestry.
- Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count by Bernard S. Bachrach
