Guillaume d’Angoulême

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Comtés d'Angoulême.
The Chronicle of Adémar de Chabannes names "Willelmi cognomento Sectoris ferri" as son of "Alduinus" [Adémar de Chabannes III, 23, p. 143]. He succeeded his father in 916 as Comte d'Angoulême. The Chronicle of Adémar de Chabannes records that Guillaume II Duke of Aquitaine granted "vicecomitatum Mellensem et Oenacensem et Rocacardensem honoremque Cabannensem et Confolentis, Roffiacum" to Guillaume [II] Comte d´Angoulême, presumably dated to the 940s [Adémar de Chabannes III, 41, p. 165].