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Fulk Of Anjou V THE YOUNGER Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 1089 | | Death Date | 1143 Acre, The Holy Land (died from riding accident while hunting near Acre | | Father | Fulk IV count of Anjou THE SURLY | Born: 1043 | Died: 1109 | | Mother | Bartrada of Montfort | Born: 1059 | Died: 1117 | | Fulk Of Anjou
Notes: | Foulques became count of Anjou upon his fathers death in 1109, at the age of approximately twenty. He was originally an opponent of King Henry I of England and a supporter of King Louis VI of France, but in 1127 he allied with Henry when Henry arranged for his daughter Matilda to marry Fulks son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and become a close friend of the Knights Templar. After his return he began to subsidize the Templars, and maintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year. By 1127 Fulk was preparing to return to Anjou when he received an embassy from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Baldwin II had no male heirs but had already designated his daughter Melisende to succeed him. Baldwin II wanted to safeguard his daughters inheritance by marrying her to a powerful lord. Fulk was a wealthy crusader and experienced military commander, and a widower. His experience in the field would prove invaluable in a frontier state always in the grip of war. However, Fulk held out for better terms than mere consort of the Queen; he wanted to be king alongside Melisende. Baldwin II, reflecting on Fulks fortune and military exploits, acquiesced. Fulk abdicated his county seat of Anjou to his son Geoffery and left for Jerusalem, where he married Melisende on June 2, 1129. Later Baldwin II bolstered Melisendes position in the kingdom by making her sole guardian of her son by Fulk, Baldwin III, born in 1130. Fulk and Melisende became joint rulers of Jerusalem in 1131 with Baldwin IIs death. From the start Fulk assumed sole control of the government, excluding Melisende altogether. He favored fellow countrymen from Anjou to the native nobility. The other crusader states to the north feared that Fulk would attempt to impose the suzerainty of Jerusalem over them, as Baldwin II had done; but as Fulk was far less powerful than his deceased father-in-law, the northern states rejected his authority. Melisendes sister Alice of Antioch, exiled from the Principality by Baldwin II, took control of Antioch once more after the death of her father. She allied with Pons of Tripoli and Joscelin II of Edessa to prevent Fulk from marching north in 1132; Fulk and Pons fought a brief battle before peace was made and Alice was exiled again.
| | Notes: | In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulks skull was crushed by the saddle, "and his brains gushed forth from both ears and nostrils", as William of Tyre describes. He was carried back to Acre, where he lay unconscious for three days before he died. He was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Though their marriage started in conflict, Melisende mourned for him privately as well as publicly. Fulk was survived by his son Geoffrey of Anjou by his first wife, and Baldwin III and Amalric I by Melisende. According to William, Fulk was "a ruddy man, like David... faithful and gentle, affable and kind... an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs." His chief fault was an inability to remember names and faces. William of Tyre described Fulk as a capable soldier and able politician, but observed that Fulk did not adequately attend to the defense of the crusader states to the north. Ibn al-Qalanisi (who calls him al-Kund Anjur, an Arabic rendering of "Count of Anjou") says that "he was not sound in his judgment nor was he successful in his administration." The Zengids continued their march on the crusader states, culminating in the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144, which led to the Second Crusade.
| | Notes: | Knight Templar, King of Jerusalem 1131 - 1142/3 9th Count of Anjou 1109 - 1129 b between 1089 to 1092 d 13 Nov 1142/3, Plains of Acre, Holy Land (died from riding accident) buried Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem Parents: Fulk IV of Anjou & Bertrade de Montfort Spouse 1: Ermengarde du Maine Child: Elie II Count of Maine (-1151) Child: Geoffrey V Count of Anjou m Mathilda, Princess of England Child: Matilda of Anjou m William IV Atheling Duke of Normandy Child: Sibylle dAnjou m1 William Clito m2 Thierry I Count of Flanders Child: Alice / Isabella m William Adelin who died on the White Ship, became a nun at Fontevrault Abbey Child: Elias II of Maine Spouse 2: Melisende de Rethel Queen of Jerusalem (notes) (1105-1160) dtr of Baldwin of Bourg Child: Baldwin III of Jerusalem King of Jerusalem m Theodora Comnena Child: Amalric I Anjou King of Jerusalem m Agnes de Courtenai "Knight Templar" Fulk, also seen written as Foulques V le Jeune, is the 16th great grandfather of Sir Edward Southworth, the first husband of Alice Carpenter, my 7th great grandmother. He also is known as Fulk the Younger.
| | Notes: | He became count of Anjou upon his fathers death in 1109. In the next year, he married Ermengarde of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine. According to William, Fulk was "a ruddy man, like David... faithful and gentle, affable and kind... an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs." (an obvious nomenclature of the Bible’s King David). His chief fault was an inability to remember names and faces. William of Tyre described Fulk as a capable soldier and able politician, but observed that Fulk did not adequately attend to the defense of the crusader states to the north. Ibn alQalanisi (who calls him al-Kund Anjur, an Arabic rendering of "Count of Anjou") says that "he was not sound in his judgment nor was he successful in his administration." The Zengids continued their march on the crusader states, culminating in the fall of the of Edessa in 1144, which led to the Second Crusade (see He was originally an opponent of King Siege of Edessa). County Henry I of England and a supporter of King Louis VI of France, but in 1118 or 1119 he had allied with Henry when he arranged for his daughter Matilda to marry Henrys son and heir, William Adelin. Fulk went on crusade in 1119 or 1120, and became attached to the Knights Templar (Orderic Vitalis). He returned, late in 1121, after which he began to subsidize the Templars, maintaining two knights in the Holy Land for a year.
| | Fulk Of Anjou Will: | He was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
| |  | | Birth Date | 1092 | | Death Date | 1126 | | Father | | Born: | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Ermengarde de Beaugency countess of Maine Notes: | Occupation: Countess of Maine and the Lady of Château-du-Loir, Comtesse de Maine, Comtesse, du Maine, du Mans, Dame, de la Flèche-en-Anjou, of Maine, Countess of Anjou, Countess of Maine, Lady of Chateau-du-Loir (1110-1126), Lady of Château-du-Loir | | Individual Notes: | | | More Notes: | | | Individual Notes: | | | |
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