List of the Counts and Dukes of Anjou
The list of Counts and Dukes of Anjou lists the owners of the rulership of the medieval feudal territory of Anjou .
List of the Counts of Angers
| Surname | Reign | relationship | Remarks |
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| Angers as part of Neustria of the Merovingians | |||
| Licinius | 587-592 | Not necessarily under the title Graf |
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| Raganfrid | ??? - 731 | Not necessarily under the title Graf |
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| Angers as part of the Breton Mark the guideschi | |||
| Lambert II. | 845-852 | Count of Nantes and Angers Count of the Breton Mark |
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| Angers as part of the Neustrian Mark of the Robertines | |||
| Robert the Brave | 853-866 | Count of Tours and Angers Count of the neustrian mark |
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| Odo | 866-898 | Son of his predecessor | Count of Tours and Angers Count of the Neustrian Mark |
| Robert | 898-923 | Brother of his predecessor | Count of the neustrian mark from 922 King of West Franconia |
| Hugo Magnus | 923-956 | Son of his predecessor | Duke of France (dux francorum) |
| Hugo Capet | 956-996 | Son of his predecessor | Duke of France from 987 King of France |
officiated as vice counts of the Robertines in Angers:
- Ingelger
- Fulko the Red , his son
List of the Counts of Anjou
| Surname | Reign | relationship | Remarks |
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| First house in Anjou | |||
| Fulko I. the red | 929-941 | Son of Ingelger | |
| Fulko II the good | 941-958 | Son of his predecessor | |
| Gottfried I. gray jacket | 958-987 | Son of his predecessor | |
| Fulko III. Nerra | 987-1040 | Son of his predecessor | |
| Gottfried II Martel | 1040-1060 | Son of his predecessor | |
| House of Château-Landon | |||
| Gottfried III. The bearded | 1060-1068 | Nephew of his predecessor | |
| Fulko IV. The brawler | 1068-1109 | Brother of his predecessor | |
| Gottfried IV Martel | 1103-1106 | Son of his predecessor | Co-regent |
| Fulko V. the Younger | 1109-1129 | Son of Fulko IV. | from 1131 king of Jerusalem |
 House Plantagenet
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| Gottfried V. Plantagenet | 1129-1151 | Son of his predecessor | from 1144 Duke of Normandy |
| Heinrich short coat | 1151-1189 | Son of his predecessor | Duke of Normandy from 1154 King of England |
| Gottfried VI. | 1151-1156 | Brother of his predecessor | Co-regent Count of Nantes |
| Heinrich the Younger | 1169-1183 | Son of Heinrich | Co-regent from 1172 King of England |
| Richard the Lionheart | 1189-1199 | Son of Heinrich | Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine King of England |
| Johann Ohneland | 1199-1204 | Brother of his predecessor | Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine King of England |
| Unification of the Anjou with the French crown domain after the collapse of the English-led Angevin Empire in 1204. Enfeoffment of Prince Charles with the Anjou in 1246. |
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 House Anjou
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| Charles I. | 1246-1285 | Son of King Louis VIII of France | Earl of Maine and Provence from 1266 king of Sicily-Naples |
| Charles II the Lame | 1285-1290 | Son of his predecessor | Earl of Maine and Provence King of Naples |
| Margarethe | 1290-1299 | Daughter of her predecessor | Countess of Maine |
 House Valois
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| Charles III from Valois | 1290-1325 | Husband of Margarethe | |
| Philip | 1325-1328 | Son of his predecessor | from 1328 king of France |
| After Philip's accession to the throne in 1328, the Anjou is united with the crown domain. | |||
List of the Dukes of Anjou
In 1351 King John II of France entrusted his son Louis with the county of Anjou. In 1360 this fiefdom was upgraded to a duchy.
| Surname | Reign | relationship | Remarks |
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| Ludwig I. | 1351 / 1360-1384 | Son of his predecessor | Titular King of Naples and Jerusalem Count of Provence |
| Ludwig II. | 1384-1417 | Son of his predecessor | Titular King of Naples and Jerusalem Count of Provence |
| Ludwig III. | 1417-1434 | Son of his predecessor | Titular King of Naples and Jerusalem Count of Provence |
| René the good king | 1434-1480 | Brother of his predecessor | King of Naples Titular King of Jerusalem, |
| Charles IV | 1480-1481 | Nephew of his predecessor | Duke of Maine Count of Provence |
| King Louis XI. unites the Anjou with the crown domain. | |||
Apanaged Dukes of Anjou from the House of Valois
- 1566–1576: Henri de Valois-Angoulême , son of King Henry II of France , who later became King of France ( Henry III )
- 1576–1584: François-Hercule de Valois-Angoulême , his brother
Apanaged Dukes of Anjou from the House of Bourbon
- 1608–1640: Jean-Baptiste de Bourbon , son of King Henry IV of France , later duc d'Orléans
- 1640–1668: Philippe de Bourbon , son of King Louis XIII. of France, later duc d'Orléans
- 1668–1671: Philippe Charles de Bourbon (1668–1671), son of King Louis XIV of France
- 1672–1672: Louis François de Bourbon, son of King Louis XIV of France
- 1683–1700: Philippe de Bourbon , grandson of King Louis XIV of France, who later became King of Spain ( Philip V )
- 1712–1715: Louis de Bourbon , later King of France ( Louis XV. )
- 1730–1733: Philippe Louis de Bourbon (1730–1733), son of King Louis XV. from France
The title of Duke of Anjou was no longer awarded after 1733.
Further use of the title
The title Duke of Anjou has been borne by the majority of the legitimist pretenders to the throne from the House of Bourbon-Anjou since the end of the First World War . They are referring to their ancestor, King Philip V of Spain, who was duc d'Anjou before he received the crown of Spain. Whereby Philip V and his descendants no longer bore the title and only carried the coat of arms of Anjou in their personal coat of arms.
- Jaime de Borbón y Borbón-Parma (1870–1931), duque de Madrid y de Anjou (1909)
- Alfonso Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Este (1849–1936), duque de San Jaime y de Anjou , whose uncle was proclaimed Duke of Anjou by his followers in 1931; he never seems to have had the title himself
- Jaime de Borbón y Battenberg (1908–1975), duque de Segovia (1935), de Anjou (1936), de Madrid (1964) y de Toledo (1969) , his cousin
- Alfonso Jaime de Borbón y Dampierre , duque de Cádiz (1972) y de Anjou (1975) , his son
- Luis Alfonso de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú , duque de Anjou (1989) , his son
In addition, Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans (* 1933), the current Orleanist pretender to the throne, has appointed his nephew Charles-Philippe d'Orléans Duke of Anjou. The House of Orléans contests the legality of the Bourbon-Anjou's claim to the title of Duke of Anjou.