Ingelger

Ingelger is a Viscount possessionné around Orleans and of Angers at the end of the 9th century.

Its name is known by a charter of 929 which mentions it like father of Foulque Ier the Russet-red, count d' Anjou. The contemporary documents do not reveal anything moreover, and information which one lays out on this Viscount comes from the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum , a history of the counts d' Anjou dating from the 12th century, that is to say three centuries later.

This text " the Chronicle of the exploits of the Counts d' Anjou" , was written of 1100 to 1140 by a monk angevin, at the request of Foulques Réchin.

It would be wire of Tertulle (or of Torquatus) and of Pétronille which would be related with Hugues the Abbot, and seems to have been a close relation of Robert the Fort. After the death of this last, killed during the ' one battles against the Viking S, Hugues the Abbot would have entrusted fields around Orleans to him. Then, the king Louis II the Stammerer would have responsible it for the defense of Tours by doing it military prefect of this city, then part of Anjou gave him.

He would have married Aelendis, girl of a count Foulque and niece, by his mother, of Regino, bishop of Angers, and Adalard, bishop of Turns. From this marriage was born:

Foulque Ier the Russet-red († 942), first count d' Anjou.

His/her son is simple witness in an act of 886 and described as Viscount in another act of 898. It is thus supposed that Ingelger died between these two dates. Its descendants are named the Ingelgeriens

Sources

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Foulques I " Reux"
" the Chronicle of the exploits of the Counts d' Anjou"

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