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Fulk, Count of Maine (thru marriage) Member - Knights Templar. Fulk V Anjou of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, King of Jerusalem, was born 1090 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France to Fulk IV, Count of Anjou (1043-1109) and Bertrade de Montfort (c1059-1117) and died 1143 Acre of fall of horse. He married Ermengarde of Maine (-1126) 1100 ...
Count of Maine ( jure uxoris ), 1110-1129 King of Jerusalem, 1131-1144. Fulk V succeeded his father Fulk IV as count of Anjou (and of Touraine) in 1109 (his elder brother Geoffroy having died in 1106), and obtained the county of Maine in 1110 by his marriage to Éremburge, heiress of Maine. His first wife having died in 1126, he was offered the ...
Feb 18, 2019 · See also Fulk, King of Jerusalem on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer . FULK, king of Jerusalem (b. 1092), was the son of Fulk IV., count of Anjou, and his wife Bertrada (who ultimately deserted her husband and became the mistress of Philip I. of France). He became count of Anjou in 1109, and considerably added to the ...
Biography. Younger son of the formidable Count Fulk IV le Réchin (“the rasper” or “the shark”), Fulk V was only a boy when, after Easter 1096, Pope Urban II came to his father’s capital of Angers to preach the First Crusade. After a dynastic struggle between Fulk's father and elder brother that resulted in his brother's murder, Fulk ...
Fulk (1089/1092-1143), count of Anjou (1109-1129) and king of Jerusalem (1131-1143), married Melisende, safeguarding her inheritance. During their reign, the Kingdom of Jerusalem reached its largest territorial extent. Fulk originally supported Louis VI of France but allied with Henry I of England in 1118/1119. Baldwin II of Jerusalem asked Fulk to marry his daughter, Melisende, and be king ...
Fulk was born at Angers, between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France. He became count of Anjou upon his father’s death in 1109. In the next year, he married Ermengarde of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County ...
Apr 7, 2024 · Fulk Foulques V Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem d'Anjou (Anjou) aka Fulco, Foulque, Foulques (est. 1092 - certain 13 Nov 1144)
