Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: a ruddy man, like David... faithful and gentle, affable and kind... an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs
• _MILT: Crusader and Knight Templar

Notes:

Buried:
Church of the Holy Sepulchre/(Jerusalem)

Died:
Killed in a hunting accident

Fulk married Queen of Jerusalem Melisende of Jerusalem on 2 Jun 1129. Melisende was born in 1105; died on 11 Sep 1161; was buried in Israel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fulk married Ermengarde du Maine on 11 Jul 1110 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. Ermengarde (daughter of Count de Beaugency Helias Elias du Maine, I and Contessa Maine Matilde de Chateau du Loire) was born in 1092 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 15 Jan 1126 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
After her death, Fulk left his lands to their son Geoffrey, and set out for the Holy Land, where he married Melisende of Jerusalem and became King of Jerusalem

1. Count of Anjou, Touraine, Maine and Duke of Normandy Geoffrey Plantagenet, V was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 7 Sep 1151 in Eurre, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: le Réchin
• Occupation: Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou."

Fulk married Queen Consort of the Franks Bertrade de Montfort in 1089. Bertrade was born in 1070; died on 14 Feb 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: The lecherous Fulk then fell passionately in love with the sister of Amaury de Montfort, whom no good man ever praised save for her beauty
• Religion: Bertrade, still young and beautiful, took the veil at Fontevraud Abbey, always charming to men, pleasing to God, and like an angel

Notes:

Married:
Bertrade left her husband and took up with King Philip I

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: the Hammer

Notes:

Birth:
Chateau Landon

Geoffrey married Duchess of Burgundy Ermengarde 'Blanche' de Anjou in 1035 in France. Ermengarde (daughter of Count of Anjou Fulk de Anjou, III and Countess Anjou Hildegard de Sundgau) was born on 18 Oct 1018 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 21 Mar 1076 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ferreol

Notes:

Died:
Chateau Landon

Geoffrey married Countess Gastinois Beatrice de MaconAnjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. Beatrice (daughter of Count Alberic Macon and Ermentrude de Roucy) was born in 983 in Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 5 Mar 1005 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Notable Quote: Fulk of Anjou, plunderer, murderer, robber, and swearer of false oaths, a truly terrifying character of fiendish cruelty, founded not one but two large abbeys. This Fulk was filled with unbridled passion, a temper directed to extremes. Whenever he had the
• Name: Nerra (the Black)
• Religion: He made four pilgrimages to the Holy Land and built the great abbey at Beaulieu-lès-Loches
• _MILT: 27 Jul 992; At the Battle of Conquereuil, Fulk and the Angevins defeated the Bretons under Conan I, Duke of Brittany/Conqueruil

Notes:

Buried:
(in Chapel of his Monastery)

Fulk married Countess Anjou Hildegard de Sundgau in 1000 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. Hildegard was born in 987 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 1 Apr 1046 in Israel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
(Jerusalem)