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Count of Poitiers
French noble title
Among the people who have borne Carolingian Counts the title of Count of Poitiers (French: Comte de Poitiers, Latin: Comes Pictaviensis; or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine) are:
- Bodilon
- Warinus (638, 677), son of Bodilon
- Hatton (735-778)
- 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), son of Ranulph I
- William I, Duke of Aquitaine
- William II, Duke of Aquitaine
- Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (890, 892) (illegitimate son of Ranulph II) (first reign, 890, 893) (second reign, 902, 935)
- Aymar (892, 902) (son of Emenon)
- Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (restored) (902, 935)
- William III (935, 963)
- William IV (963, 995)
- William V (969, 1030)
- William VI (1030, 1038)
- Odo (Eudes) (1038, 1039)
- William VII (1039, 1058)
- William VIII (1058, 1086)
- William IX (1086, 1126)
- William X (1127, 1137)
- Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine
- Louis VII of France (1137, 1152) obtained title through marriage to Eleanor
- Henry II of England (1152, 1169) obtained title through marriage to Eleanor
- William, styled Count of Poitiers (1153, 1156) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England
- Richard I (1169, 1199)
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