Count Ranulph II of Poitou 
Ranulph was born about 0855 in Poitou, Aquitaine, France. Ranulph's father was Duke Ranulph I of Aquitaine and his mother was Blichilde de Maine. His paternal grandparents were Count Gerard of Auvergne and Princess of France; his maternal grandparents were Count Rorick I of Maine and Blichilde. He was an only child. He died on August 5th, 0890.General Notes
Ranulf II (also spelled Rannoux, Rannulf, Ramnulf, and Ranulph; 850 – 5 August 890) was Count of Poitou from 866 and Duke of Aquitaine from 887. On the death of Charles the Fat in 888, he styled himself King of Aquitaine and did so until 889 or his death, after which the title fell into abeyance.
He may have been selected as a temporary king by the Aquitainian nobles, for they accepted Odo of France after his death. Only the Annales Fuldenses definitively give him this title. He is recorded to have taken custody of Charles, the young son of Louis the Stammerer and he certainly did not recognise Odo as king. He appeared in the Annales Vedastes in 889 with the title dux maximae partis Aquitaniae: "duke of the major part of Aquitaine." He founded the viscountcy of Thouars at about that time, part of larger movement to creat viscounts with powers over regional fortresses to man them against the Vikings.
Ranulf was a son of Ranulf I and Bilichild of Maine. He married an Ermengard (died 935) and by her had a son, Ranulf III, who succeeded him in Poitiers. His illegitimate son Ebalus succeeded him in Aquitaine and, upon the death of Ranulf III, in Poitiers too.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 0795 in Auvergne, France
- b.~ 0825 in Poitou, Aquitaine, France d.0886
- b.0714 in Austrasia, France d.24 Sep 0768 in St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France
- b.02 Apr 0742 in Ingelheim, Rheinhessan, Hesse-Darmstadt d.28 Jan 0814 in Aix-la-Chapelle, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.~ 0720 in Laon, Aisne, France d.12 Jul 0783 in Choisy, Haute-Savoie, France
- b.Aug 0778 in Chasseneuil, Lot-et-Garonne near Poitiers, Aquitaine, France d.20 Jun 0840 in Petersaue, Ingelheim, Rheinhessan, Hesse-Darmstadt
- b.~ 0710 in Swabia, Germany
- b.~ 0757 d.~ 0782
- b.0800
- b.0752 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium
- b.0773 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium d.03 Oct 0818 in Angers, Anjou, France
- b.~ 0855 in Poitou, Aquitaine, France d.05 Aug 0890
- b.0804 in Maine, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0827 in Maine, Normandy, France
- b.0808 in Maine, Normandy, France
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Individual Additional Information
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Associated external link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulf_II_of_Aquitaine
