Alduin II (Angoulême)

Alduin II (also Audoin or Hildouin ; † 1032 ) was a Count of Angoulême from the House of Taillefer . He was the older son of Count William IV of Angoulême and the tanners of Anjou.

After his father's death, Alduin had several women cremated in public whom he had accused of sorcery . However, a 12th-century chronicle reported that his wife Alaisia was responsible for the death of their father through poisoning. His successor as Count of Angoulême was apparently therefore immediately contested by his younger brother Gottfried , from whom he was feuded from Blaye Castle . After eight days of siege, he was finally able to conquer the castle and take Gottfried prisoner. He forgave him the revolt and gave him two castles in the Saintonge as a fief.

Alduin died four years after his father. He was married to Alaisia, the heir to the Vice Count Grimoard von Fronsac and his wife Dea von Montignac . Their children could not succeed in Angoulême because Gottfried ousted them.

Individual evidence

↑ Ademar von Chabannes , Ademari Historiarum Liber III , ed. by Georg Waitz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 4 (1861), pp. 146–147; Chronicon III §66, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 192
↑ Historia pontificum et comitum engolismensium , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876), p. 264
↑ Historia pontificum et comitum engolismensium , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876), p. 263. The chronicle names the year 1030 as the year of Alduin's death, which is obviously an error, since Ademar von Chabannes quoted the inscription from the grave of Wilhelm IV, according to which he had died in 1028.
↑ For the origin of Alaisia see the chronicle of the Abbey of Guîtres (11th century), which contains a genealogy of the Vice Counts of Fronsac. Frédéric Boutoulle: La généalogie des premiers vicomtes de Fronsac d'après la chronique de Guîtres (Xe-XIe siècles) , in: Château et stratégies familiales (2007), pp. 29-50. Also Ademar von Chabannes, Ademari Historiarum Liber III , ed. by Georg Waitz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 4 (1861), p. 148. In European family tables (Volume III, Plate 817) she is wrongly mentioned as the daughter of Duke Sancho Wilhelm of Gascogne († 1032).

predecessor	Office	successor
William IV	Count of Angoulême 1028-1032	Gottfried

personal data
SURNAME	Alduin II (Angoulême)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Angoulême
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH	1032

[1] Ademar von Chabannes , Ademari Historiarum Liber III , ed. by Georg Waitz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 4 (1861), pp. 146–147; Chronicon III §66, ed. by Jules Chavanon (1897), p. 192

[2] Historia pontificum et comitum engolismensium , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876), p. 264

[3] Historia pontificum et comitum engolismensium , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876), p. 263. The chronicle names the year 1030 as the year of Alduin's death, which is obviously an error, since Ademar von Chabannes quoted the inscription from the grave of Wilhelm IV, according to which he had died in 1028.

[4] For the origin of Alaisia see the chronicle of the Abbey of Guîtres (11th century), which contains a genealogy of the Vice Counts of Fronsac. Frédéric Boutoulle: La généalogie des premiers vicomtes de Fronsac d'après la chronique de Guîtres (Xe-XIe siècles) , in: Château et stratégies familiales (2007), pp. 29-50. Also Ademar von Chabannes, Ademari Historiarum Liber III , ed. by Georg Waitz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 4 (1861), p. 148. In European family tables (Volume III, Plate 817) she is wrongly mentioned as the daughter of Duke Sancho Wilhelm of Gascogne († 1032).