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Among the people who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (French: Comte de Poitiers, Latin: Comes Pictaviensis; or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine) are:
Bodilon
Warinus (638–677), son of Bodilon
Hatton (735-778)
Coin of Richard the Lionheart as Count of Poitiers; it bears the inscriptions RICARDVS REX / PICTAVIENSIS.
Carolingian Counts
Bernard I [fr] (814-828)
Renaud (795–843)
Bernard II (840 - 844)
Emenon or Emeno (828 – 839), brother of Bernard II
Ranulph I (839–866)
Ranulph II (866–890),[1] son of Ranulph I
Gauzbert (857–892)
Robert I (866–923)
Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (890–892) (illegitimate son of Ranulph II)(first reign– 890–893)(second reign– 902–935) [1]
Aymar (892–902) (son of Emenon)
Ebalus (or Ebles Manzer) (restored) (902–935) [1]
William I (935–963) (son of Ebalus) [1]
William II (963–995) (son of William I) [1]
William III (969–1030) (son of William II) [1]
William IV (1030–1038) (1st son of William III) [1]
Odo (Eudes) (1038–1039) (2nd son of William III) [1]
William V (1039–1058) (3rd son of William III) [1]
William VI (1058–1086) (4th son of William III) [1]
William VII (1071–1126) (son of William VI) [1]
William VIII (1099–1137) (son of William VII) [1]
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine [1]
Louis VII of France (1137–1152) obtained title through marriage to Eleanor [1]
Henry II of England (1152, 1156–1189) obtained title through marriage to Eleanor [1]
William IX (1153–1156) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England
Richard I (1169–1196) son of Eleanor and Henry II of England [1]
Otto (1196–1198)
Richard I again (1198–1199) [1]
Richard II (1224) younger brother of Henry III of England
Alphonse I (1220–1271) son of Louis VIII of France
Philip I (1293–1322)
John I (1319–1364)
John II (1340–1416) son of John I
John III (1398–1417) son of Charles VI of France
Charles (1403–1461)
Francis (r. 1695–1715)
^ abcdefghijklmnopqMonarchs, Rulers, Dynasties And Kingdoms Of The World, by R F Tapsell, 1983, Facts On File, Inc., New York, NY, page 211.
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