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Birth:          ABT  844 
Death:           888 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingelger
Ingelger or Ingelgarius (died 888) was a Frankish nobleman, who was the founder of 
the County of Anjou and of the original House of Anjou. Later generations of his family 
believed he was the son of Tertullus (Tertulle) and Petronilla.[1]

Around 877 he inherited his father Tertullus's lands in accordance with the Capitulary 
of Quierzy which Charles the Bald had issued. His father's holdings from the king 
included Château-Landon in beneficium, and he was a casatus in the Gâtinais and 
Francia. Contemporary records refer to Ingelger as a miles optimus, a great military 
man.[2]

Later family tradition makes his mother a relative of Hugh the Abbot,[3] an influential 
counselor of both Louis II and Louis III of France, from whom he received preferment. 
By Louis II Ingelger was appointed viscount of Orléans, which city was under the rule 
of its bishops at the time.[2] At Orléans Ingelger made a matrimonial alliance with one 
of the leading families of Neustria, the lords of Amboise. He married Adelais, whose 
maternal uncles were Adalard, Archbishop of Tours, and Raino, Bishop of Angers. 
Later Ingelger was appointed prefect (military commander) at Tours, then ruled by 
Adalard.[2]

At some point Ingelger was appointed Count of Anjou, at a time when the county 
stretched only as far west as the Mayenne River. Later sources credit his appointment 
to his defence of the region from Vikings,[4] but modern scholars have been more 
likely to see it as a result of his wife's influential relatives.[2] He was buried in the 
church of Saint-Martin at Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe. He was succeeded by his son Fulk 
the Red.[4]

His wife was Adelais.[5] Her good connections may have helped her husband gain the 
title of Count of Anjou.[6]

Parents
DE ANJOU Tertulle (Tertullus) (ABT  821 -  870)
____ Petronille (Petronilla) (ABT  820 -  845)

Siblings
ANJOU Ingelger (ABT  844 -  888)

Marriage To DE GATINAIS Adelais (Aelinde) (ABT  845 - )
    m. ABT  869 

Notes

Parents
____ Geoffrey (ABT  820 - )
----- ----- ()

Children by DE GATINAIS Adelais (Aelinde) ABT  845 - 
____ Fulk (Foulques) I "the Red" (ABT  870 - ABT  942)

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