William V of Angoulême, also known as William Taillefer III was the twelfth count of Angoulême

Counts and dukes of Angoulême

Angoulême in western France was part of the Carolingian Empire as the kingdom of Aquitaine. Under Charlemagne's successors, the local Count of Angoulême was independent and was not united with the French crown until 1307. By the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny the Angoumois, then ruled by the...

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William V was a fifth generation descendant of Count Arnold of Angoulême. He was born in 1084, the son of Count Fulk of Angoulême

Fulk of Angoulême

Fulk of Angoulême was the eleventh count of Angoulême. Fulk was a fourth generation descendant of Count Arnold of Angoulême. He was the son of Count Geoffrey of Angoulême and Petronille De Archiac...

 and the grandson of Geoffrey of Angoulême

Geoffrey of Angoulême

Geoffrey was the Count of Angoulême from 1032. His brother Alduin II succeeded their father, William II, as Count in 1028, but the brothers quarrelled over their inheritance in the Bordelais...

 and Petronille de Archiac. William III's reign lasted from 1089 until 1118 or 1120.

In 1108 he married Vitapoy de Benauges. They had one son, who succeeded William V as the thirteenth count of Angoulême.

• Wulgrin II of Angoulême
  Wulgrin II of Angoulême
  Wulgrin II , called Taillefer or Rudel, was the Count of Angoulême from 1120 to his death on 16 November 1140. He was a son of Count William Taillefer III....
  
  

Sources

• Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Chapter 3, Comtes d'Angoulême
• Histoire P@ssion - Chronologie historique des Comtes d’Angoulême (in French)
• L'art de Verifier des Faits historiquws, des Chartes, des Chroniques, et Autres Anciens Monuments, Depuis la Naissance de Notre-Seigner by Moreau et Yalade, 1818, Page 184
• The coinage of the European continent, by Swan Sonnenschein, 1893, Page 276
• Annuaire Historique Pour L'annee 1854, by Société de l'histoire de France, Page 179
• Nouvelle Encyclopedie Theologique, by acques-Paul Migne, 1854, Page 903