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5 days ago · 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.
- 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's father was Fulk of Anjou, the former Count of...
- Melisende
1 day ago · Eleanor was related to Henry even more closely than she had been to Louis: they were cousins to the third degree through their common ancestor Ermengarde of Anjou, wife of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy and Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinais, and they were also descended from King Robert II of France.
- 9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
- Aénor de Châtellerault
6 days ago · Historiae Gaufredi ducis Normannorum et comitis Andegauorum is a biography of Geoffrey Plantagenet, duke of Normandy and count of Anjou, by Jean de Marmoutier (fl. 1170). Dedicated to Guillaume de Passavant, bishop of Le Mans from 1142–1186. Geoffrey was the father of Henry II of England.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · 2. Hedwig, who inherited the lands of Rumigny after the death of her uncle, Eudes, and that married Geoffrey IV, Lord of Florennes. Around 1020, Ebles separated from his wife[8][5] and took holy orders, being therefore elected archbishop of Reims.[1] He also became count of Reims in 1023 and afterwards bound the county to the archdiocese.
5 days ago · When they shall have recovered their land in England, and the count of Anjou shall again possess Dieppe (Deupa), they will pay 10l. sterling (de esterlingis) at the said term, for the purchase of herrings likewise, from (in) their own inheritance in England. [1151–4.] (MS. lat., fo. 258, from original, with large portion of seal in white wax.
5 days ago · Louis VIII (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (French: Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As a prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216. On 2 June 1216, Louis was proclaimed "King of England" by rebellious barons in London, though never crowned.
