Count of Poitiers - Definition and Overview

Among the men who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of the Aquitaine) are:

• Guerin (or Warin[us]) (638-677)
• Renaud (795-843)
• Bernard I (815-844)
• Ranulph I (835-875)
• Ranulph II (855-890)
• Gauzbert (857-892)
• Robert I (866-923)
• Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (901-935)(illigitimate son of Ranulf II of Poitiers)
• William III of Aquitaine (935-963) aka: William I of Poitou (son of Ebalus of Aquitaine)
• William IV of Aquitaine (963-995) aka: William II of Poitou (son of William III of Aquitaine)
• William V of Aquitaine (969-1030) aka: William III of Poitou (son of William IV of Aquitaine)
• William VI of Aquitaine (1030-1038) aka: William IV of Poitou (1st son of William V of Aquitaine)
• Otto of Aquitaine (1038-1039) aka: Eudes (2nd son of William V of Aquitaine)
• William VII of Aquitaine (1039-1058) aka: William V of Poitou (3rd son of William V of Aquitaine)
• William VIII of Aquitaine (1058-1086) aka: William VI of Poitou (4th son of William V of Aquitaine)
• William IX of Aquitaine (1071-1126) aka: William VII of Poitou (son of William VIII of Aquitaine)
• William X of Aquitaine (1099-1137) aka: William VIII of Poitou (son of William IX of Aquitaine)
• Raymond, Prince of Antioch (1112-1149)
• Louis VII of France (1120-1180)
• Henry II of England (1133-1189)
• William Plantagenet (1153-1156) son of Henry II of England
• Alphonse Capet (1220-1271) son of Louis VIII of France
• Philip V of France (1293-1322)
• John, Duke of Berry (1340-1416) son of John II of France
• Charles VII of France (1403-1461)
• Charles Louis Edmond (b. 1929)
• Craig Stuart I-Douglas Hamilton(b.1963)