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William I of Angoulême
William I of Angoulême, called Taillefer, was a 10th-century count of Angoulême in western France. Tradition gives him his nickname, 'iron-cutter', from a blow that split a Viking's armour. His descendants, the Taillefer line, held the county for more than three centuries as vassals of the dukes of Aquitaine.
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