State · 930 – 1360
County of Anjou
A state of 930 – 1360 — 430 years in Europe. It was replaced by Duchy of Anjou. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.
- Wikidata's English label: county of Anjou.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 430 years
- 930 – 1360
- Rulers
- 6
- the Count of Anjou
- Most ground
- 26,600 km²
- in 1056
990 · first mapped · 9,500 km²
1056 · at its largest · 26,600 km²
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
After it
- Duchy of Anjou · replaced by · 1360 – 1790
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulk V of Anjou | 1106 – 1129 | 23 years | ending not on record | |
| Arthur I of Brittany | 1199 – 1203 | 4 years | ending not on record | |
| Charles I of Anjou | 1246 – 1285 | 39 years | ending not on record | |
| Charles, Count of Valois | 1290 – 1325 | 35 years | ending not on record | |
| John II of France | 1332 – 1360 | 28 years | ending not on record | grandchild |
| Louis I of Anjou | 1356 – 1360 | 4 years | ending not on record | child |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1106 – 1360. Median reign 25.5 years. 1 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
9,500 km² in 1005, 25,100 km² in 1330; at its largest 25,100 km² in 1305. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood430 years
stood longer than 82% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held26,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 25% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median28 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 80% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 887 – 1403, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1056, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2991084 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.