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5 days ago · Fulk V became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109. In the next year, he married Countess Erembourg (or Ermengarde) of Maine , cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine . Fulk was originally an opponent of King Henry I of England and a supporter of King Louis VI of France , but in 1118 or 1119 he allied with Henry when he ...
- Melisende
Heir Patronage. Jerusalem had been conquered by Christian...
- Fulk IV of Anjou
Fulk IV (French: Foulques IV d'Anjou; 1043 – 14 April 1109),...
- Geoffrey V
Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151), called the...
- Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Baldwin III (1130 – 10 February 1163) was King of Jerusalem...
- Erembourg (Or Ermengarde) of Maine
Ermengarde or Erembourg of Maine, also known as Erembourg de...
- Melisende
3 days ago · Blanche of Castile. Charles I (early 1226/1227 – 7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246–1285) and Forcalquier (1246–1248, 1256–1285) in the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Anjou and Maine ...
- 1246–1285
- Louis VIII of France
- Charles II
- Blanche of Castile
1 day ago · Ermengarde of Anjou c. 1018–1076: Pons of Toulouse 1019–1060: Almodis de La Marche c. 1020 –1071: Robert de Mortain c. 1031 –1095: Matilda de Montgomery d. 1085: William V 969–1030: Agnes de Bourgogne c. 995 –1068: Archimbaud Borel 1019–1083: Amabilis de Bouchard 1023–1084: Eon de Blaison 1028– Tcheletis de Trèves 1028 ...
- 9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
- Aénor de Châtellerault
2 days ago · However, in 1144 Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou, conquered Normandy. In 1150 he ceded the duchy to his son Henry, who later became king of England as Henry II in 1154. In this way Normandy became part of the so-called Angevin (from Anjou) empire, which was a series of far-flung territories ruled by Henry II and succeeding English kings.
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5 days ago · 1054. Charter of Eustace, giving for the weal of his predecessors and of himself and his wife and his daughters who there serve God devoutly as nuns, to the abbey ( ecclesie) of Fontevrault 10 pounds sterling from the tithe of his rents in England. His sons William and Roger join in and confirm this gift.
5 days ago · Beaufort family. Role In: Wars of the Roses. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd duke of Somerset (born c. 1406—died May 22, 1455, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England) was an English nobleman and Lancastrian leader whose quarrel with Richard, duke of York, helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of Lancaster and York. He was a ...
5 days ago · The Radcliffe Library was finished in 1749 from the designs of James Gibbs. Since 1860 it has formed part of the Bodleian Library. The new building of the library, on the N. side of Broad Street, was begun in 1937. The Schools Quadrangle (109½ ft. by 102 ft.) is entered by a gate-house with a tower above in the middle of the E. range.
