William VI of Angoulême

William VI of Angoulême (died 1179^[1]) was also known as William Taillefer IV. He was the Count of Angoulême from 1140 to 1179. He inherited the title and territory from his father, Wulgrin II of Angoulême.

It is from him, that the territory was passed down through three brothers, all sons of William VI: Wulgrin III of Angoulême who was the eldest, William VII of Angoulême and Aymer of Angoulême.

After the death of Aymer, the territory did not pass to Aymer's daughter, Isabella of Angoulême, Queen consort to John of England, but rather to the daughter of Wulgrim III, Mathilde of Angoulême, who had married Hugh IX of Lusignan, father of Hugh X of Lusignan.

References

1. Historians have given a variety of dates for William's death. Watson (453) gives it as 1179, backed up by charter evidence (353–62). Geoffrey of Vigeois' chronicle (325–26) also declares William to have died in 1179 and his son Wulgrin III to have ruled for only two years, dying in 1181.

Sources

• Cawley, Charles, Medieval Lands Project, Chapter 3, Comtes d'Angoulême, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,
• Histoire P@ssion - Chronologie historique des Comtes d’Angoulême (in French)
• L'art de Verifier des Faits historiques, des Chartes, des Chroniques, et Autres Anciens Monuments, Depuis la Naissance de Notre-Seigner by Moreau et Yalade, 1818, Page 187
• The coinage of the European continent, by Swan Sonnenschein, 1893, Page 276
• Annuaire Historique Pour L'annee 1854, by Société de l'histoire de France, Page 180
• Nouvelle Encyclopedie Theologique, by Jacques-Paul Migne, 1854, Page 903
• Geoffrey of Vigeois. "Chronica Gaufredi coenobitae monasterii D. Martialis Lemovicensis, ac prioris Vosiensis coenobii." In Novae bibliothecae manuscriptorum librorum tomus secundus: rerum aquitanicarum. . . . Edited by Philippe Labbe, 279–342. Paris: Sebastian Cramoisy, 1657. (His chronicle, in Latin, on Gallica)
• Watson, Rowan Charles. "The Counts of Angoulême from the 9th to the Mid 13th Century." PhD diss., University of East Anglia, 1979.