Electrum stater of the Andes/Andecavi tribe of Gaul, found somewhere near Angers, France; 1st century B.C. 🏳️

The Gallic state of the Andes re-emerged in medieval times with its same tribal name, as the French County of Anjou. It retained it’s old capital of Iuliomagus Andecavorum, now Angers. By then however, the Angevin people were fully Romanized and retained no memory or semblance of their Gallic roots. The original counts seem to have been of native extraction, although they later intermarried with other nobles, mostly from Normandy and Maine. Eventually, count Geoffrey V Plantagenet of Anjou (whose paternal lineage was Norman) married Matilda, the daughter of king Henry I of England, and their son Henry II would inherit both the Kingdom of England and the county of Anjou, forming what would come to be known as the Angevin Empire.

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