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Birth:          ABT  855 Poitiers, Poitou
Death:          5 Aug  890 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulf_II_of_Aquitaine
Ranulf II (also spelled Rannoux, Rannulf, Ramnulf, and Ranulph) (850 – 5 August 890) 
was Count of Poitou from 866 and Duke of Aquitaine from 887. On the death of 
Charles the Fat in 888, he styled himself King of Aquitaine and did so until 889 or his 
death, after which the title fell into abeyance.

Ranulf was a son of Ranulf I and Bilichild of Maine. He married an Ermengard (died 
935) and by her had a son, Ranulf III, who succeeded him in Poitiers. His illegitimate 
son Ebalus succeeded him in Aquitaine and, upon the death of Ranulf III, in Poitiers 
too.

Ranulf may have been selected as a king by the Aquitainian nobles, for they accepted 
King Odo of France in 892 only after Ranulf's death. Only the Annales Fuldenses 
definitively give him this title, saying "Ranulf then set himself up as king" (Deinceps 
Rannolfus se regem haberi statuit). He is recorded to have taken custody of Charles, 
the young son of Louis the Stammerer and he certainly did not recognise Odo as king. 
The Annales Vedastes record that in 889

Post nativitatem vero Domini cum paucis Francis Aquitaniam perrexit, ut eos sibi 
sociaret. Quo audito, Ramnulfus, dux maximae partis Aquitaniae, cum sibi faventibus 
venit ad eum, adducens secum Karolum puerum, filium Hludowici regis; et iuravit illi 
quae digna fuerunt, simul et de ipso puerulo. . . Aquitanos itaque rex ex parte 
receptos, festinavit propter Nortmannos redire in Franciam.
 After Christmas [888], [Odo] went to Aquitaine with a few Franks, in order to be 
accepted [as king]. Upon hearing this, Ranulf, duke of the greater part of Aquitaine, 
with his supporters came to him, bringing with him the child, Charles, the son of King 
Louis; and he swore to him who was worthy of it [i.e., Odo], as did the boy. . . So the 
king returned from Aquitaine to France [in June] because of the Norsemen.

Ranulf founded the viscountcy of Thouars at about this time, as part of a larger 
movement to create viscounts with powers over regional fortresses to man them 
against the Vikings.

Parents
____ Ranulph I (ABT  825 - Oct  866)
OF MAINE Blichild (ABT  827 - )

Siblings
____ Ranulph II (ABT  855 - 5 Aug  890)

Marriage To ____ Adelaide (ABT  862 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Louis II "the Stammerer" (1 Nov  846 - 10 Apr  879)
----- Irmgard or Ermengarde (concubine) ()

Children by ____ Adelaide ABT  862 - 
DE POITIERS Arsende (ABT  879 - )
DE POITIERS Ebles II (Ebalus Manzer) ( 890 -  934)

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