Count of Poitiers
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Among the people who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine) are:
Carolingian Counts
- Bernard I (814-828)
- Renaud (795–843)
- Bernard II (840 - 844)
- Emenon or Emeno (828 – 839), brother of Bernard II
- Ranulph I (839–866)
- Ranulph II (866–890),[1] son of Ranulph I
- Gauzbert (857–892)
- Robert I (866–923)
- Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (890–892) (illegitimate son of Ranulph II)(first reign– 890–893)(second reign– 902–935) [1]
- Aymar (892–902) (son of Emenon)
- Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (restored) (902–935) [1]
- William I (935–963) (son of Ebalus) [1]
- William II (963–995) (son of William I) [1]
- William III (969–1030) (son of William II) [1]
- William IV (1030–1038) (1st son of William III) [1]
- Odo (Eudes) (1038–1039) (2nd son of William III) [1]
- William V (1039–1058) (3rd son of William III) [1]
- William VI (1058–1086) (4th son of William III) [1]
- William VII (1071–1126) (son of William VI) [1]
- William VIII (1099–1137) (son of William VII) [1]
- Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine [1]
- Louis VII of France (1137–1152) obtained title through marriage to Eleanor [1]
- Henry II of England (1152, 1156–1189) obtained title through marriage to Eleanor [1]
- William IX (1153–1156) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England
- Richard I (1169–1196) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England [1]
- Otto (1196–1198)
- Richard I again (1198–1199) [1]
- Richard II (1224) younger brother of Henry III of England
- Alphonse I (1220–1271) son of Louis VIII of France
- Philip I (1293–1322)
- John I (1319–1364)
- John II (1340–1416) son of John I
- John III (1398–1417) son of Charles VI of France
- Charles (1403–1461)
- Francis (r. 1695–1715)