Mathilde of Angoulême
Mathilde of Angoulême( also Mahaut; after marriage Taillifer)( 1181–1233) was the sole daughter of Wulgrin III, Count of Angoulême.
After the death of her father, the title passed to her uncle, William VII of Angoulême.
After her marriage to Hugh IX of Lusignan, she became his consort, and the centre of the dynastic struggle between the Kings of England and France, after the death of Aymer of Angoulême.
The defeat of John of England, ensured that the title passed to the House of Lusignan, eventually falling to the House of Valois and to the crown of France.
William V, Count of Angoulême
William V of Angoulême, also known as William Taillefer III was the twelfth count of Angoulême.
William V was born in 1084, the son of Count Fulk of Angoulême and the grandson of Geoffrey of Angoulême and Petronille de Archiac.
William III's reign lasted from 1089 until 1118 or 1120.
In 1108 he married Vitapoy de Benauges.
They had one son, who succeeded William V as the thirteenth count of Angoulême.
John, Count of Angoulême
John of Orléans, Count of Angoulême and of Périgord (26 June 1399 – 30 April 1467), was a younger son of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, and Valentina Visconti, and a grandson of Charles V of France.
He was the younger brother of the noted poet, Charles, Duke of Orléans, and grandfather of Francis I of France.
John was taken hostage by the English in 1412, and not released until 1444.
In 1415 he was joined by his older brother Charles, with whom he shared an interest in literature.
He had to sell part of his estates to pay for his ransom, but still collected many books.
After that, he fought under the orders of his illegitimate half-brother, Dunois, driving the English out of Guyenne in 1451.
On 31 August 1449, he married Marguerite de Rohan, daughter of Alain IX of Rohan and Marguerite of Brittany.
They had three children:
He also had an illegitimate son, Jean de Valois, bastard of Angoulême, who was legitimised in 1458.
"Good Count John" died in 1467.
He is buried in the Cathedral of Angoulême.
William VI of Angoulême
William VI of Angoulême( died 1179) was also known as William Taillefer IV.
The eldest son of Count Wulgrin II of Angoulême and his first wife, Poncia, daughter of Roger the Poitevin and Almodis, he succeeded his father at the head of the county of Angoulême in 1140.
William married Emma of Limoges( d?).
He married a second time to Marguerite of Turenne, daughter of viscount Raymond I of Turenne.
It is from him, that the territory was passed down through 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.
William VII of Angoulême
William VII of Angoulême( died 1186) was also known as William Taillefer V, was the Count of Angoulême from 1181.
The second of three sons of William VI of Angoulême, he inherited the title of Count of Angoulême, and its territory, upon the death of his brother, Wulgrin III of Angoulême, who in turn had only one daughter, Mathilde of Angoulême.
William VII died childless and the title passed to his youngest brother Aymer of Angoulême.
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Louis I of Orléans (13 March 1372 – 23 November 1407) was Duke of Orléans from 1392 to his death.
He was also, Duke of Touraine (1386–1392), Count of Valois (1386?–1406)
Blois (1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407), Périgord (1400–1407) and Soissons (1404–07).
Louis was the second son of King Charles V of France and Joanna of Bourbon and was the younger brother of Charles VI.
In 1498, his heirs male inherited the French throne after the extinction of the Valois main line.
Turpio
Turpio( or Turpion; died 4 October 863) was a Count of Angoulême in the Frankish empire.
The sources are contradictory concerning the date of his appointment as count and his allegiance, but they agree that he died trying to fend off a raid by the Vikings.
In 838, when the Emperor Louis the Pious led an army into Aquitaine to put down the rebellion of his grandson Pepin, he replaced the counts who had rallied to Pepin—such as Turpio's brother Emeno, Count of Poitou—with appointees of his own.
According to Adhemar of Chabannes, writing in the early 11th century, Turpio was appointed Count of Angoulême.
However, Lupus of Ferrières, in a letter dated 840, addressed to either Abbot Marcward of Prüm or perhaps Bishop Jonas of Orléans, makes a certain Rainald( Reinoldus), not Turpio, the new Count of Angoulême, and implies that Turpio was on the side of Pepin.
Whenever Turpio's tenure began, its main feature was a series of Viking raids, culminating in the great raid of 862 – 63, in which they allied with Pepin, besieged Toulouse and raided the Angoumois, killing Turpio in battle.
The" Chronicon Aquitanicum" records, under the year 863, that" Turpio, count of Angoulême, fought with the Northmen, killing their king, named Maurum, and himself being killed."
The" Annales Engolismenses" provide a date for the battle, and Turpio's death: the fourth day of the nones of October 863.
Their account is more detailed: Count Turpio—a most strong knight and the best defender, a magnificent man, a lover of the clergy, a builder of churches and one who restored the poor—joined the Northmen in battle, and killed Mauro, only then to be killed; and the whole region was captured and burned.
Turpio was succeeded by his brother Emeno, who is recorded as Count of Angoulême at the time of his death in 866.
Wulgrin III of Angoulême
Wulgrin III of Angoulême, also known as Wulgrin Taillefer II, inherited the title of Count of Angoulême and its territories from his father, William VI of Angoulême, in 1179.
His untimely death was the first break in the house of Taillefer, which had ruled Angoulême since the days of the Carolingians.
As he had only one daughter, Mathilde of Angoulême, the territory went to his younger brother, William VII of Angoulême.
Wulgrin's daughter, Mathilde, would marry Hugh IX of Lusignan, who would eventually inherit the kingdom, over the claims of John of England, through Isabella of Angoulême, the daughter of Aymer of Angoulême, the third and youngest brother.
Fulk of Angoulême
Fulk of Angoulême was the eleventh count of Angoulême.
He was the son of Count Geoffrey of Angoulême and Petronille De Archiac.
He died in 1087 or 1089, depending on the sources.
He had a son, who succeeded him in title and territory:
William Taillefer I
William" Taillefer" I( died Aug 962) was also known as William II of Angoulême( being the second William in this family since Wulgrin I. His uncle, William I, being the first).
He was the Count of Angoulême from 926 to 945.
He was the son of Alduin I.
According to one source, his surname, or sobriquet, was acquired due" ... from the way in which he cut down a Norman Sea- king through his coat of mail."
This Norman sea-king is identified as Storis.
The name Taillefer was used by subsequent members of this family, especially holders of the title Count of Angoulême.
William was not married, but had at least one, and possibly two, illegitimate sons who would later claim the title of Count of Angoulême.

Question: What is the date of death of John, Count Of Angoulême's father?
Answer: 23 November 1407