NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Count of Poitou

Among the men who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of the Aquitaine) are:

Guerin (or Warin[us]) (638-677)
Renaud (795-843)
Bernard I (815-844)
Ranulph I (835-875)
Ranulph II (855-890)
Gauzbert (857-892)
Robert I (866-923)
Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (901-935)(illigitimate son of Ranulf II of Poitiers)
William III of Aquitaine (935-963) aka: William I of Poitou (son of Ebalus of Aquitaine)
William IV of Aquitaine (963-995) aka: William II of Poitou (son of William III of Aquitaine)
William V of Aquitaine (969-1030) aka: William III of Poitou (son of William IV of Aquitaine)
William VI of Aquitaine (1030-1038) aka: William IV of Poitou (1st son of William V of Aquitaine)
Otto of Aquitaine (1038-1039) aka: Eudes (2nd son of William V of Aquitaine)
William VII of Aquitaine (1039-1058) aka: William V of Poitou (3rd son of William V of Aquitaine)
William VIII of Aquitaine (1058-1086) aka: William VI of Poitou (4th son of William V of Aquitaine)
William IX of Aquitaine (1071-1126) aka: William VII of Poitou (son of William VIII of Aquitaine)
William X of Aquitaine (1099-1137) aka: William VIII of Poitou (son of William IX of Aquitaine)
Raymond, Prince of Antioch (1112-1149)
Louis VII of France (1120-1180)
Henry II of England (1133-1189)
William Plantagenet (1153-1156) son of Henry II of England
Alphonse Capet (1220-1271) son of Louis VIII of France
Philip V of France (1293-1322)
John, Duke of Berry (1340-1416) son of John II of France
Charles VII of France (1403-1461)
Charles Louis Edmond (b. 1929)
Craig Stuart I-Douglas Hamilton(b.1963)

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Ebalus of Aquitaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (450 words)
	In the interval, Aymar was Count of Poitou and Aquitaine was ruled by Dukes of the house of Auvergne.
	Ebles was established as Count of Poitou in 890 by his father Ranulf II, but was driven away in 892 by Aymar of Poitiers, who was supported by Eudes of France.
	Count of Poitou was the only title in which he ever had legitimate investiture.

Poitou (Traditional province, France) (675 words)
	Poitou is the former country of the Gaul tribe of Pictons or Pictaves.
	Poitou then followed the fate of Aquitaine, and was given by duchess Aliénor to her two successive husbands, king of France Louis VII (1137-1152) and king of England Henry II Plantegenet (1152-1189).
	Poitou was occupied by the English from 1356 to 1369, then granted to duke Jean de Berry as his apanage, and reincorporated to the royal domain in 1416.

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