Turpió d'Angulema

Turpio (or Turpion; died 4 October 863) However, Lupus of Ferrières, in a letter dated 840, addressed to either Abbot or perhaps Bishop Jonas of Orléans, makes a certain Rainald (Reinoldus), not Turpio, the new Count of Angoulême, and implies that Turpio was on the side of Pepin.

Whenever Turpio's tenure began, its main feature was a series of Viking raids, culminating in the great raid of 862–63, in which they allied with Pepin, besieged Toulouse and raided the Angoumois, killing Turpio in battle. The Chronicon Aquitanicum records, under the year 863, that "Turpio, count of Angoulême, fought with the Northmen, killing their king, named Maurum, and himself being killed." The Annales Engolismenses provide a date for the battle, and Turpio's death: the fourth day of the nones of October 863. Their account is more detailed: Count Turpio—a most strong knight and the best defender, a magnificent man, a lover of the clergy, a builder of churches and one who restored the poor—joined the Northmen in battle, and killed Mauro, only then to be killed; and the whole region was captured and burned. Turpio was succeeded by his brother Emeno, who is recorded as Count of Angoulême at the time of his death in 866.