Angoulême

Angoulême was a French county centred on the city of Angoulême. In 1337 Philip of Évreux, also King Philip III of Navarre, held it with his wife Joan II as an appanage.

The Treaty of Brétigny ceded Angoumois to England in 1360; Charles V's troops retook it in 1373. It passed to Louis of Orléans in 1394, and became a royal duchy when his grandson Francis became king in 1515. In 1548 the countryside rose against the salt tax in the Pitauds revolt.