Ingelger

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Ingelger I Count of Anjou and Orléans (845 - 888) was a viscount who held territory around Orléans and Angers at the end of the 9th century.[1] The son of Tertullus (or Tertulle) and Petronilla (whose grandfather was Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne),[2] he was born in Anjou and Christened at St Martin Detours. His son Fulk became the first count of Anjou. After Robert the Strong, he directed the resistance to the Norman invasions on the Loire. Ingeleger eventually died at the age of 43 in Tours.

Through his descendant Geoffrey Plantagenet, father of Henry II of England, he is an ancestor to the present-day British royal family, including Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and her son, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.

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  1. ^ "Ingelger I Count of Anjou and Orleans", American-Pictures.com, 24 October 2007. 
  2. ^ "Petronilla Princess of Holy Roman Empire", American-Pictures.com, 24 October 2007. 
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