Alduin I. (Angoulême)

Alduin I. (also Audoin or Hildouin ; † March 27, 916 ) was a Count of Angoulême from the House of Taillefer . He was the older son of Count Vulgrin I of Angoulême-Périgord , his younger brother was Count William I of Périgord .

Alduin was involved in the fight against the Vikings invading Aquitaine and had the city wall of Angoulême specially expanded in 886 . Allegedly he was in possession of a piece of wood from the “ true cross ” that his father had already received from Charroux Abbey , as a Christian symbol that brought victory to the fight against the Vikings. But now the monks of Alduin demanded the return of this relic, which the latter refused. Thereupon a serious illness attacked him and his followers began to roam the country like wolves on the hunt for human flesh. Then he had a golden shrine built for the relic and brought it to Charroux by his son Wilhelm, whereupon the curse came to an end. After his death he was buried in Saint-Cybard Abbey.

Alduin was married to a now unknown woman with whom he had a son, Wilhelm II. Taillefer († 945). Because he was not of age when he died, Adémar first took control of Angoulême, who was probably Alduin's brother-in-law.

source

• Ademar von Chabannes , Chronicon III §23, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 144
• Ademar von Chabannes, Ademari Historiarum Liber III , ed. by Georg Waitz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 4 (1861), pp. 125–126
• on the date of death: Annales Engolismenses , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 4 (1841), p. 5

predecessor	Office	successor
Vulgrin I.	Count of Angoulême 886–916	Adémar