The Count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou , first granted by King Charles the Bald of West Francia in the 9th century to Robert the Strong . Ingelger and his son, Fulk the Red , were viscounts until Fulk assumed the title of count.
13-638: [REDACTED] Look up Anjou in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Anjou may refer to: Geography and titles [ edit ] France [ edit ] County of Anjou , a historical county in France and predecessor of the Duchy of Anjou Count of Anjou , title of nobility Duchy of Anjou , a historical duchy and later a province of France Duke of Anjou , title of nobility Anjou, Isère ,
26-795: A commune Other countries [ edit ] Anjou, Quebec , Canada, a borough of Montreal Anjou (electoral district) Anjou Islands , a group of the New Siberian Islands Food [ edit ] Anjou (grape) , another name for the French wine grape Chenin blanc Anjou wine , a wine region in the Loire Valley D'Anjou or Anjou pear Other uses [ edit ] Anjou (ship) , wrecked in 1905 See also [ edit ] Angevin (disambiguation) , meaning "of Anjou" Anjo (disambiguation) Anju (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
39-418: A historical duchy and later a province of France Duke of Anjou , title of nobility Anjou, Isère , a commune Other countries [ edit ] Anjou, Quebec , Canada, a borough of Montreal Anjou (electoral district) Anjou Islands , a group of the New Siberian Islands Food [ edit ] Anjou (grape) , another name for the French wine grape Chenin blanc Anjou wine ,
52-465: A wine region in the Loire Valley D'Anjou or Anjou pear Other uses [ edit ] Anjou (ship) , wrecked in 1905 See also [ edit ] Angevin (disambiguation) , meaning "of Anjou" Anjo (disambiguation) Anju (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Anjou . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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78-571: The Angevin kings of England , continued to hold the title and territory until King Philip II Augustus seized the region and annexed it to the French crown lands . In 1360, the county was raised to a dukedom becoming known as Duke of Anjou , subsequently leading the Duchy of Anjou . The title was held by Philip V of Spain before his accession in 1700. Since then, some Spanish Legitimist claimants to
91-431: The French throne and became King Philip VI. At this time, the counties of Anjou, Maine, and Valois returned to the royal domain. On 26 April 1332, Philip granted the county to his eldest son, John: Following John's ascension to the throne as John II in 1350, the title again returned to the royal domain. The dukes contributed greatly to social reform in the 1300s and 1400s. On the death of Charles IV, Anjou returned to
104-1105: The French throne have borne the title even to the present day, as does a nephew of the Orléanist pretender. The Robertians , or Robertian dynasty, comprised: 1129–1151 also: count of Tours and Maine , duke of Normandy elder son of Fulk V of Anjou and Eremburga de La Flèche 17 June 1128 three sons Château-du-Loir aged 38 1151–1189 also: king of England , count of Maine , duke of Normandy , Aquitaine and Gascony , lord of Ireland Le Mans son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and Empress Matilda 18 May 1152 Poitiers eight children Chinon aged 56 1189–1199 also: king of England , count of Maine and Nantes , duke of Normandy , Aquitaine and Gascony , lord of Ireland Beaumont Palace son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine 12 May 1191 Limassol No legitimate issue Châlus aged 42 1199–1203 also: duke of Brittany son of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Constance of Penthièvre no issue Rouen aged 16 In 1204, Anjou
117-538: The exiled King of Spain, Alfonso XIII . In 1941, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, succeeded his father Alfonso XIII (Alphonse I of France according to the Legitimists) as the heir male of Louis XIV and therefore as the Legitimist claimant to the French throne. He then adopted the title of Duke of Anjou. On 8 December 2004, Henry, Count of Paris, Duke of France , Orléanist Pretender to the French throne, granted
130-602: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anjou&oldid=1163003080 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Count of Anjou Ingelger's male line ended with Geoffrey II . Subsequent counts of Anjou were descended from Geoffrey's sister Ermengarde and Count Geoffrey II of Gâtinais . Their agnatic descendants, who included
143-633: The royal domain. 1672 After the death of Henri, Count of Chambord , only the descendants of Philip V of Spain remained of the male line of Louis XIV. The most senior of these, the Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, became the eldest of the Capetians. Some of them used the courtesy title of Duke of Anjou , as shown below: At the death of Alfonso Carlos in 1936, the Capetian seniority passed to
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169-407: Was lost to king Philip II of France . It was re-granted as an appanage for Louis VIII's son John, who died in 1232 at the age of thirteen, and then to Louis's youngest son, Charles , later the first Angevin king of Sicily. In 1290, Margaret married Charles of Valois , the younger brother of king Philip IV of France . He became Count of Anjou in her right. In 1328, Philip of Valois ascended
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