County of Poitou

County of Poitou
comitatus Pictavensis (Latin)
County of Poitou comitatus Pictavensis (Latin)
778–1416
	France in 1154
Status	Vassal state of Francia; (778-843); Vassal state of West Francia; (843-987); Vassal state of the Kingdom of France; (987-1416); In personal union with the Duchy of Aquitaine; (950s-1154); In personal union with the Kingdom of England; (1154-1205);
Capital	Count of Poitou
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	778
• Merged with the French Crown	1416
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Francia
Kingdom of France
Today part of	France

The County of Poitou (

County of Angoulême. The seat of the county was at Poitiers

Poitou was ruled by the

Poitou was conquered by King Philip II of France in 1205 after he declared it a confiscated fief of the crown. Henry III of England failed to retake it in the Saintonge War. One of the main battlegrounds of Hundred Years' War between the French and English in the 14th and 15th centuries, Poitou was finally merged with the French crown in 1416.

References

Knight, Charles (1840). The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 17.
Beech, George T. (1995). "Poitou". Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Garland. pp. 1408–09.