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Fulk IV. Fulk IV ( French: Foulques IV d'Anjou; 1043 – 14 April 1109), better known as Fulk le Réchin ( Latin: Fulco Rechin ), was the count of Anjou from around 1068 until his death. He was noted to be "a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits" by Orderic Vitalis, who particularly objected to his many women and his influential ...
- 1068 – 14 April 1109
- House of Anjou
Jul 28, 2022 · Fulk IV (1043–1109), called le Réchin, was the Count of Anjou from 1068 until his death. The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "sullen", and "heroic". Biography.
- 1043
- April 14, 1109 (65-66)Anjou, France
- Anjou, France
- Sainte-Trinite, Anjou, France
Apr 10, 2024 · Fulk IV (born 1043, Château Landon, Fr.—died April 14, 1109, Angers) was the count of Anjou (1068–1109). Geoffrey II Martel, son of Fulk III, pursued the policy of expansion begun by his father but left no sons as heirs. The countship went to his eldest nephew, Geoffrey III the Bearded. But the latter’s brother, Fulk, discontented over ...
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Foulques (Fulk, Fulco) IV "le Rechin" Count of Anjou, 1067×8-1109. The younger brother of count Geoffroy III "le Barbu", Foulques rebelled against his brother and captured him in 1067, and then again in 1068, when he imprisoned his brother again (not releasing him until 1096), and assumed control of the Angevin possessions.
Mar 5, 2024 · Fulk (born 1092—died November 1143, Acre, Palestine [now ʿAkko, Israel]) was the count of Anjou and Maine as Fulk V (1109–31) and king of Jerusalem (1131–43). Son of Fulk IV the Surly and Bertrada of Montfort, he was married in 1109 to Arenburga of Maine. Fulk exerted his control over his vassals and was later caught up in dynastic ...
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Fulk ( Latin: Fulco, French: Foulque or Foulques; c. 1089/1092 – 13 November 1143), also known as Fulk the Younger, was the count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129 and the king of Jerusalem with his wife Melisende from 1131 to his death. During their reign, the Kingdom of Jerusalem reached its largest territorial extent.
Coat of arms of the Dukes of Anjou. The count of Anjou was the ruler of the County of Anjou, first granted by Charles the Bald in the 9th century to Robert the Strong. Ingelger and his son, Fulk the Red, were viscounts until Fulk assumed the title of count. The Robertians and the Capetian kings were distracted by wars with the Vikings and other ...
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