D'ANJOU, Foulques Count of Anjou
- Born: Abt 1043, France
- Marriage (1): MONTFORT, Bertrade in 1089 in Anjou, France
- Died: 14 Apr 1109, France aged about 66
Research Notes:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Anjou-46
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Biography
Name and Titles
Name: Fulk IV, count of Anjou
Younger son of Geoffroy (III), Count of Gâtinais by his wife Ermengarde of Anjou.
Fulk IV (in French Foulques IV) (1043\endash 14 April 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", "rude", "sullen", "surly" and "heroic".[1]
Born: 1042-1043. Aged 17 in a document dated Pentecost [14 May] 1060. Place: Unknown, presumably in the area of Gâtinais, France where his father was count. His mother was from Anjou and Fulk IV would become the count of Anjou in 1068, so this is sometimes given as his place of birth online.
Affair (Possible Marriage) & Repudiation
Affair or Marriage with Orengarde de Chatellailon
Date: 1076
Place: Anjou, Rhone-Alpes, France
Repudiation (and annulment, if married) of Orengarde de Chatellailon, for consanguinuity.
Date: 1085
Place: Anjou, Rhone-Alpes, France
Marriages and Children
In a charter dated 23 June 1096, Foulques named his children Gaufridus, Fulconello, and Ermengardis [Cart. Angers, 127-131]. The mothers of the three children are given by Gesta Cons. Andegav. [Spicilegium 3: 262; also RHF 12: 497], De origine comitum Andegavensium [RHF 12: 534]. [1]
Married: Hildegarde of Beaugency, , daughter of Lancelin II de Beaugency, say 1070. [2]
Spouses:
Married: Ermengarde de Bourbon ? - ca. 1075
Married: Orengarde de Châtellailon ? - ca. 1080
Married: Mantie of Brienne 1080\endash 1087
Married: Bertrade de Montfort 1087\endash 1092?
Child of Fulk IV by Hildegarde of Baugency:
Ermengarde of Anjou (d. 1146)
Child of Fulk IV by Ermengarde of Bourbon)
Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou
Child of Fulk IV by Bertrade of Montfort:
Fulk of Jerusalem
Death
Died: 14 April 1109. [3]
Place: Unknown.
Buried: Anjou Sainte-Trinité in Beaulieu-lès-Loches, Beaulieu-lès-Loches, Indre-et-Loire, France. [4]
Notes and Commentary
Falsely attributed father: (in fact an uncle): Aubri/Alberic, living 1028, count of Gâtinais. Although contemporary sources confirm Geoffroy was the name of the father of Geoffroy III "le Barbu" and Foulques IV "Rechin", several sources from the next century name the father of Geoffroy III and Foulques IV as count Aubri/Alberic of Gâtinais, and the existence of a count of Gâtinais of that name is confirmed by a charter. Various authors have dealt with this contradiction either by giving a count Aubri/Geoffroy who used both names, or by accepting one of the names and rejecting the other, with different details. This is discussed in detail on the page of count Geoffroy of Gâtianis. [5]
Sources
? See also Halphen (1906), 169-171
? Ex Chronico Turonensi, RHF 12: 462-3.
? Annales de Vendôme, Halphen (1903), 69; Annales de Saint-Aubin (fragment), ibid., 44; see also Halphen (1906), 202.
? Cawley. "FOULQUES d'Anjou." Medieval Lands.
? Henry Project: Fulk IV.
Baldwin, Stewart. "Foulques (Fulk, Fulco) IV." The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England. Website. (2001-present). Accessed April 2018. Home Page, Henry Project FAQ, Index, Henry II Ancestor Table
Bradbury (1989) = Jim Bradbury, Fulk le Réchin and the origin of the Plantagenets, in Harper-Bill et al., eds., Studies in Medieval history presented to R. Allen Brown (Boydell Press, 1989), 27-41.
Cart. Angers = C. Urseau, Cartulaire Noir de la Cathédrale d'Angers. (Paris & Angers, 1908).
Guillot (1972) = Olivier Guillot, Le Comte d'Anjou et son entourage au XIe siècle. (Paris, 1972).
Halphen (1903) = Louis Halphen, ed., Recueil d'annales angevines et vendômoises. (Paris, 1903).
Halphen (1906) = Louis Halphen, Le comté d'Anjou au XIe siècle (Paris, 1906).
Morice (1750) = Dom Hyacinthe Morice, Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne, 2 vols, (Paris, 1750).
OV = Marjorie Chibnall, ed. & trans., The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1969-80).
RHF = Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France.
Spicilegium = Luc d'Achery, Spicilegium sive collectio veterum aliquot scriptorum qui in Galliæ bibliothecis delituerant. (Paris, 1723 [vol. 3]).
Will. Tyre = Emily Atwater Babcock & A. C. Krey, trans., A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea by William Archbishop of Tyre, (English translation) 2 vols. (Columbia University Press, 1943). For the Latin text see Recueil des Historiens des Croisades: Historiens Occidentaux, vol. 1 (Paris, 1844).
See also:
Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013): vol. 1 p. 20, 541.
wikipedia:Fulk_IV,_Count_of_Anjou
Cawley, Charles. "FOULQUES d'Anjou." Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families, Online at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Website .
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Notice of resolution of ambiguous parentage This profile has been edited with regard to parents in accordance with principles established by the European Aristocracy user-group. Medieval genealogy is not an exact science, and digital collaborative genealogy must therefore occasionally make choices where old-fashioned print-scholarship did not have to. The parents (or lack of parents) of the person described in this profile were decided upon in consultation with primary sources especially as collected in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy's Medieval Lands project.
Foulques married Bertrade MONTFORT, daughter of Simon DE MONTFORT Seigneur de Montfort-l'Amaury and Agnes D'EVREUX, in 1089 in Anjou, France. (Bertrade MONTFORT was born about 1070 in Montfort, Aquitaine, France and died on 14 Feb 1117 in Évreux, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France.)
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