Counts and dukes of Anjou

The Count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by King Charles the Bald of West Francia in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son, Fulk the Red, were viscounts until Fulk assumed the title of count.
Ingelger's male line ended with Geoffrey II. Subsequent counts of Anjou were descended from Geoffrey's sister Ermengarde and Count Geoffrey II of Gâtinais. Their agnatic descendants, who included the Angevin kings of England, continued to hold the title and territory until King Philip II Augustus seized the region and annexed it to the French crown lands.
In 1360, the county was raised to a dukedom becoming known as Duke of Anjou, subsequently leading the Duchy of Anjou. The title was held by Philip V of Spain before his accession to the throne in 1700. Since then, some Spanish Legitimist claimants to the French throne also claim the title even to the present day, as does a nephew of the Orléanist pretender.

Counts of Anjou

Robertian dynasty

The Robertians, or Robertian dynasty, comprised:

Name	Portrait	Birth	Marriages	Death
Robert the Strong 861–866 also: marquis of Neustria, count of Tours		820 ? son of Robert III of Worms and Waldrade	? two sons	866 aged 45
Odo 866-898 also: king of the Franks, marquis of Neustria, count of Paris		852 La Fère son of Robert the Strong and Adelaide of Tours	Théodrate of Troyes two sons	898 aged 46

[House of Ingelger]

Agnatic descent

Cognatic descent

[House of Plantagenet]

In 1204, Anjou was lost to king Philip II of France. It was re-granted as an appanage for Louis VIII's son John, who died in 1232 at the age of thirteen, and then to Louis's youngest son, Charles, later the first Angevin king of Sicily.

[Capetian dynasty]

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In 1290, Margaret married Charles of Valois, the younger brother of king Philip IV of France. He became Count of Anjou in her right.

[House of Valois]

In 1328, Philip of Valois ascended the French throne and became King Philip VI. At this time, the counties of Anjou, Maine, and Valois returned to the royal domain. On 26 April 1332, Philip granted the county to his eldest son, John:

Name	Portrait	Birth	Marriages	Death
John 1332–1350 also: John the Good, count of Maine, of Poitiers, duke of Normandy, and Aquitaine		16 April 1319 son of Philip VI and Joan the Lame	Bonne of Bohemia 28 July 1332 Church of Notre-Dame, Melun nine children Joanna I of Auvergne 19 February 1350 Nanterre two children	8 April 1364 Savoy aged 44

Following John's ascension to the throne as John II in 1350, the title again returned to the royal domain.

Dukes of Anjou

The dukes contributed greatly to social reform in the 1300s and 1400s.

First creation: 1360–1481 – [House of Valois-Anjou]

On the death of Charles IV, Anjou returned to the royal domain.

Second creation: 1515–1531 – [House of Savoy]

Third creation: 1566–1576 – House of Valois-Angoulême">House of Valois">House of Valois-Angoulême

Fourth creation: 1576–1584 – House of Valois-Angoulême">House of Valois">House of Valois-Angoulême

Fifth creation: 1608–1626 – [House of Bourbon]

Sixth creation: 1640–1660 – [House of Orléans]

Seventh creation: 1668–1671 – [House of Bourbon]

8th creation: 1672 – [House of Bourbon]

9th creation: 1683–1700 – [House of Bourbon]

10th creation: 1710–1715 – [House of Bourbon]

11th creation: 1730–1733 – [House of Bourbon]

12th creation: 1755–1795 – [House of Bourbon]

Dukes of Anjou without legal creation

1883–present – [House of Bourbon]

After the death of Henri, Count of Chambord, only the descendants of Philip V of Spain remained of the male line of Louis XIV. The most senior of these, the Carlist claimant to the Spanish throne, became the eldest of the Capetians. Some of them used the courtesy title of Duke of Anjou, as shown below:

Name	Portrait	Birth	Marriages	Death
Jaime 1909-1931 also: duque de Madrid		27 June 1870 Vevey third son of Carlos, Duke of Madrid and Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma	never married	2 October 1931 Paris aged 60
Alfonso Carlos 1931-1936 also: duque de San Jaime		12 September 1849 London second son of Juan, Count of Montizón and Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Este	Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal 26 April 1871 Kleinheubach no issue	29 September 1936 Vienna aged 87

At the death of Alfonso Carlos in 1936, the Capetian seniority passed to the exiled King of Spain, Alfonso XIII. In 1941, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, succeeded his father Alfonso XIII as the heir male of Louis XIV and therefore as the Legitimist claimant to the French throne. He then adopted the title of Duke of Anjou.

Name	Portrait	Birth	Marriages	Death
Jaime 1941-1975 also: duque de Segovia, duque de Madrid		23 June 1908 Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg	Emmanuelle de Dampierre 4 March 1935 Church of San Ignacio de Loyola, Rome two children Charlotte Tiedemann 3 August 1949 Innsbruck no issue	20 March 1975 St. Gallen aged 66
Alfonso 1975-1989 also: duque de Cádiz, duc de Bourbon		20 April 1936 Rome eldest son of Jaime and Emmanuelle de Dampierre	María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco 8 March 1972 Royal Palace of El Pardo two sons	30 January 1989 Beaver Creek Resort aged 52
Louis Alphonse 1989-present also: duc de Touraine, duc de Bourbon		25 April 1974 Madrid second son of Alfonso and María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco	María Margarita Vargas Santaella 6 November 2004 La Romana four children	living

2004–present – House of Bourbon-Orléans">House of Orléans">House of Bourbon-Orléans

On 8 December 2004, Henry, Count of Paris, Duke of France, Orléanist Pretender to the French throne, granted the title Duke of Anjou to his nephew, Charles-Philippe d'Orléans. Since he did not recognize his cousin's courtesy title, in his view, the title was available since 1795.

Name	Portrait	Birth	Marriages	Death
Charles-Philippe 2004-present		3 March 1973 Paris eldest son of Michel, Count of Évreux, and Beatrice Pasquier de Franclieu	Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval 21 June 2008 Cathedral of Évora	living