Vulgrin II (Angoulême)

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Vulgin II (also Wulfgrin ; † September 16, 1140 in Bouteville ) was a Count of Angoulême from the House of Taillefer . He was a son of Count Wilhelm V. Taillefer and the Vitapoi von Bénauges.

He was born in the 11th century when he and his father made a donation to Saint-Pierre of Angoulême in the 1090s . His first marriage was to Pontia, a daughter of Roger Poitevin de Montgommery , Count of La Marche . The Norman Montgommery family competed with the long-established house of Lusignan for possession of the county of La Marche and Vulgrin attracted the enmity of the Lusignans through his marriage. In 1127 Hugo VII von Lusignan and Gottfried I von Rancon attacked the castle of Montignac , which he owned , but Vulgrin was able to repel the attackers successfully.

Vulgrin died in Bouteville Castle and was buried in Saint-Cybard Abbey in Angoulême.

From his first marriage to Pontia von La Marche he had a son and heir, Wilhelm VI. Taillefer († 1179).

His second wife was Amable, a daughter of Vice Count Amalrich I of Châtellerault. Their children were Fulko and Gottfried Martel.

literature

  • Sidney Painter: The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , in: Speculum 32 (1957), p. 39.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex Historia pontificum et comitum engolismensium. In: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France . 12 (1877), p. 394.
  2. ↑ Ex Historia pontificum et comitum engolismensium. In: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France. 12 (1877), p. 396.
  3. ↑ For the date of death, place and burial see: Ex Historia pontificum et comitum engolismensium. In: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France. 12 (1877), p. 399.
  4. ↑ Gottfried Martel accompanied Hugo VIII of Lusignan on an "armed pilgrimage" ( crusade ) to the Holy Land in 1163 and fought there in 1164 in the Battle of Artah . His further fate is unclear. William of Tire : Historia Rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. XIX, §8–9, In: Recueil des historiens des croisades . (1844), Historiens occidentaux II, pp. 894-895.
predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm V. Taillefer Count of Angoulême
1120–1140 		William VI. Taillefer
personal data
SURNAME Vulgrin II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vulgrin II of Angoulême
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Angoulême
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1140
Place of death Bouteville