By Louis II Ingelger was appointed viscount of Orléans, which city was under the rule of its bishops at the time.
[1] At Orléans Ingelger made a matrimonial alliance with one of the leading families of Neustria, the lords of Amboise.
He married Adelais, whose maternal uncles were Adalard, Archbishop of Tours, and Raino, Bishop of Angers.
[1][2] At some point, Ingelger was appointed Count of Anjou, at a time when the county stretched only as far west as the river Mayenne.
Later sources credit his appointment to his defense of the region from Vikings, but modern scholars have been more likely to see it as a result of his wife's influential relatives.