The sources are contradictory concerning the date of his appointment as count and his allegiance, but they agree that he died trying to fend off a raid by the Vikings.
According to Adhemar of Chabannes, writing in the early 11th century, Turpio was appointed Count of Angoulême.
[2] However, Lupus of Ferrières, in a letter dated 840, addressed to either Abbot Marcward of Prüm [de][3] or perhaps Bishop Jonas of Orléans,[4] makes a certain Rainald (Reinoldus), not Turpio, the new Count of Angoulême, and implies that Turpio was on the side of Pepin.
"[8] The Annales Engolismenses provide a date for the battle, and Turpio's death: the fourth day of the nones of October 863.
[1] Turpio was succeeded by his brother Emeno, who is recorded as Count of Angoulême at the time of his death in 866.