Francis I of France was the first King of France from the Angoulme branch of the House of Valois.
With the breakup of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century, the system of feudalism places kings at the head of a pyramid of relationships between liege lords and vassals, dependent on the regional rule of barons, and the intermediate positions of counts (or earls) and dukes
 He told Franois I he had discovered a new territory that he named New Angoulme in his honour

