Individual Details

Geoffrey I "Greymantle" INGELGER Count Anjou

(11 Nov 938 - 21 Jul 987)

Geoffrey started by making his power-base the citadel of Angers strategically placing his fideles in key areas surrounding the city to protect his territories. The lands of the abbeys of Saint-Aubin and Saint-Serge in Angers provided the beneficium for his most faithful adherents. Geoffrey had influence in Aquitaine by way of his sister Adelaide-Blanche's first marriage to the powerful baron Stephen, Count of Gevaudan and Forez who after his death the lands were ruled by Adelaide.

Events

Birth11 Nov 938Departement de Maine-Et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
Death21 Jul 987Marcon, Departement de la Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France
BurialTours, Departement D'Indre-Et-Loire, Centre, France

Families

Notes

Death

Died while besieging the fortress of Marcon on 21 July 987.

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).

2. Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).

3. Heritage Consulting, Millennium File (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003).

4. Heritage Consulting, Millennium File (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003).

5. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).

6. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).

7. Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).

8. Heritage Consulting, Millennium File (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003).

9. Heritage Consulting, Millennium File (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003).

10. Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).

11. Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).