Editing Ingelger

{{Short description|9th century Frankish nobleman & founder of House of Anjou}}
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'''Ingelger''' (died 888), also called '''Ingelgarius''', was a [[Franks|Frankish]] nobleman, who was the founder of the [[County of Anjou]] and of the [[House of Ingelger|original House of Anjou]]. Later generations of his family believed that he was the son of Tertullus (Tertulle) and Petronilla.{{efn|The anonymous twelfth-century {{lang|la|[[Gesta Consulum Andegavorum]]}} names his father as {{lang|la|Tertullus nobilem dux}}, but both the name Tertullus and the title {{lang|la|dux}} are unusual. Another twelfth-century source, the {{lang|la|[[Chronicon Turonensis]]}} (c. 1180) records that Ingelger was {{lang|la|nepos Hugonis ducis Burgundiæ}}, a nephew of [[Hugh, Duke of Burgundy]] (died 952) &mdash; chronologically stretched. Modern scholars are divided as to the historicity of Tertullus and Petronilla.}}

Around 877, he inherited his father Tertullus' 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 {{lang|la|[[benefice|beneficium]]}}, and he was a {{lang|la|casatus}} in the [[Gâtinais]] and [[Île-de-France|Francia]]. Contemporary records refer to Ingelger as a {{lang|la|miles optimus}}, an excellent soldier.<ref name=bachrach1993>{{cite book|last=Bachrach|first=Bernard S.|authorlink=Bernard Bachrach|year=1993|title=Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987&ndash;1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count|place=Berkeley|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-07996-5|page=4&ndash;5}}</ref> 

Later, in accordance with family tradition, his mother was made a relative of [[Hugh the Abbot]],{{efn|This man is distinct from abbot [[Hugh, son of Charlemagne]], but the two are frequently confused, resulting in some 19th-century sources erroneously naming Petronilla as granddaughter of [[Charlemagne]].}} an influential counselor of both [[Louis II of France|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 [[Bishop of Orléans|its bishops]] at the time.<ref name=bachrach1993/> At Orléans Ingelger made a matrimonial alliance with one of the leading families of [[Neustria]], the lords of [[Amboise]]. 

He married [[Adelais (wife of Ingelger)|Adelais]], whose maternal uncles were [[Adalard, Archbishop of Tours|Adalard]], [[Archbishop of Tours]], and [[Raino, Bishop of Angers|Raino]], [[Bishop of Angers]]. Later Ingelger was appointed [[prefect]] (military commander) at Tours, then ruled by Adalard.<ref name=bachrach1993/><ref>{{cite book|title=Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary|first=Patrick J.|last=Geary|page=88|authorlink=Patrick J. Geary|place=Princeton|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2006}}</ref>

At some point, Ingelger was appointed [[Count of Anjou]], at a time when the county stretched only as far west as the river [[Mayenne (river)|Mayenne]]. Later sources credit his appointment to his defense of the region from [[Vikings]], but modern scholars have been more likely to see it as a result of his wife's influential relatives.<ref name=bachrach1993/><ref>{{cite book|title=The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century|first=Paul|last=Collins|page=33|authorlink=Paul Collins (Australian religious writer)|publisher=Perseus Books Group|year=2013}}</ref>

Ingelger was buried in the Church of Saint-Martin at [[Châteauneuf, Allègre, France]]. He was succeeded by his son [[Fulk the Red]].

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==External links==
*[[Louis Halphen|Halphen, Louis]] and [[René Poupardin]]. [http://www.francebalade.com/anjou/chronanjou.htm ''Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise''.] Steve Lane, trans. Paris: Picard, 1913. Part of [[Medieval Sourcebook]].
*[http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/fulk0001.htm The Legendary Ancestry of Fulko Rufus] Contains a well thought-out and referenced discussion of Ingelger's probable ancestry.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120310191909/http://www.bookdaily.com/book/624329/fulk-nerra-the-neo-roman-consul-987-1040-a-political-biography-of-the-angevin-count Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count] by [[Bernard Bacthe Name hrach|Bernard S. Bachrach]]

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[[Category:9th-century people from West Francia]]