189110272. Comte Fulk V of Anjou & 189110273. Comtesse Erembourg of Maine
1090, Fulk
born in Anjou, France, s/o 378220544. Fulk IV of Anjou & 378220545.
Bertrade de Montfort.
1092, Fulk’s
mother left her husband and became the lover of King Philip I of France.
~1095,
Erembourg born in Maine, France, d/o 378220546. Helias le Fleche.
8/2/1100, Henry I crowned King of England.
1103, Fulk
[the father] disinherited his eldest son Geoffrey in favor of Fulk V. In a
subsequent conflict, Geoffrey, with the help of Elias le Fleche forced Fult
[the father] to abdicate.
1104, Fulk V
[Fulk the younger] assented to a quitclaim made in favour of the abbey of
St-Aubin by Geoffrey, his older half brother and co-ruler of Anjou with Fulk,
their father.
12/7/1104,
Fulk and his father confirmed the previous concession of Geoffrey.
[––Erembourg––]
Erembourg 1st
married to Geoffrey Martel, co-count of Anjou [Fulk’s older brother.]
1/19/1105,
Fulk publicly confirmed his assent to Geoffrey’s quitclaim by placing a knife
of the altar of the church.
5/1106,
Fulk’s older brother Geoffrey died in battle from a poison arrow, leaving him
as heir. Fulk was at the court of King Philip, who had Duke William of
Acquitaine escort Fulk back to his father. (S) England Under the Angevin Kings,
P229.
8/3/1108, Louis VI crowned King of France.
1108, King
Louis invested Fulk, a minor at his court, as heir to his own father of Anjou
and designated William, duke of Potiers to conduct Fulk to his father. William,
once in his own lands, imprisoned Fulk.
1108-09,
Fulk’s mother Bertrade, step-mother of King Louis, worked from court to obtain
Fulk’s release.
4/14/1109,
Fulk, Count of Anjou on the death of his father.
4/14/1109,
Fulk and his sister Ermengarde manumitted a serf for the sake of their father’s
soul and the remission of their own sins.
By 1109,
Erembourg’s father died.
1109, Fulk
faced a situation in which Angevin barons were holding castles which once had
been comital, and aligning themselves with the counts of Blois and Poitou. Fulk
captured Doue and L’Ile Bouchard. (S) France in the Making, Dunbabin, 2000,
P334.
[––Fulk
& Erembourg––]
1109, Fulk
married Erembourg, uniting Anjou and Maine.
1109-24, A
dispute between layman and the canons of St-Vincent du Mans settled in the city
of Le Mans before Count Fulk and Bishop Hildebert.
1109-11,
There was widespread famine in France.
7/1110,
Erembourg’s father died.
1111, Fulk
of Anjou began to ‘hold Maine against the king’ [King Henry of England.] (S)
Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World, Fleming, 2007, P73.
1111, Amaury
of Montfort encouraged his nephew Fulk V to conduct a raid into
Normandy, Fulk subsequently appealed to Louis VI for military assistance. (S)
Angevin Society and the Early Crusades, Blincoe, 2008, P138.
1112, Fulk
besieged Brissac and subdued Eschivard of Preuilly.
2/23/1113,
By the Treaty of Pierre Pecoulee, Fulk did homage to King Henry I of England
for Maine, and arranged for his daughter Matilda to marry William, s/o King
Henry.
1114, Fulk
involved in a general barons war.
1116, Fulk
formed and alliance with King Louis VI. (S) Gothic King’s of Britain, Potter,
2008, P53.
1117,
Fulk V, count of Anjou, founded the priory of La Fontaine
Saint-Martin in the diocese of Le Mans. (S) Brittany and the Angevins, Everard,
2000, P66.
7/1118, Fulk
V of Anjou supported King Louis VI of France against the forces of King Henry I
of England, which included Theobald of Blois. Fulk razed the castle of La
Motte-Gautier de Clerichamp.
1118, At the
battle of Alencon, Theobald was wounded in the forehead by an arrow, and Fulk
took the town. The burghers of Alencon invited Fulk to take over their city.
1119, Fulk
and King Louis invaded Normandy hoping to take Gisors [in support of William
Clito, son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, brother of King Henry I.]
6/1119, at
Lisieux, as part of a peace agreement, Fulks’ daughter Matilda married King
Henry’s son William.
8/20/1119,
King Louis and his forces defeated at the battle of Bremule by King Henry I. A
thousand knights were engaged; 80 French knights were killed.
1120s,
Robert the Burgundian [de Craon] lived at the court of Fulk of Anjou.
6/1120, Fulk
left for the Holy Land where he met Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem. (S) Angevin
Society and the Early Crusades, Blincoe, 2008, P284.
11/25/1120,
William, son of King Henry I, died in the White Ship wreck while returning to
England from Normandy. Fulk requested, and got, the return of his daughter
Matilda.
1121, Amaury
de Montfort again tried to form an alliance against King Henry with Fulk of
Anjou. He arranged for Fulk’s daughter Sibyl to marry William Clito.
1123, Fulk
opposed the annulment of the marriage of his daughter Sybilla with William
Clito by Pope Honorius II on the grounds of consanguinity.
1123, Fulk,
aligned with Amaury de Montfort in support of William Clito attacked various
parts of King Henry’s duchy of Normandy. Fulk attacked the lord of Doue who had
revolted.
1124, Fulk
took Montreuil-Bellay after a siege of 9 weeks.
1126, King
Louis VI had to defend the Bishop of Clermont to Auvergne, opposing William,
count of Avuergne. Louis, with Charles the Good of Flanders, Fulk V of Anjou,
and Conan of Brittany, and Norman knights, besieged the castle at Montferrand.
William X, duke of Aquitaine, who was overlord of the castle, questioned Louis’
authority, but was forced to accept Louis’ authority. After capturing the
castle, Louis had the hands of those captured cut off.
1126,
Erembourg died.
[––Fulk––]
1127, Fulk
allied with King Henry I of England; and arranged for his son to marry Henry’s
daughter.
1127, Robert
of Craon witnessed a charter of Fulk in the Touraine. [Robert later became the
Templar Grand Master.]
9-10/1127,
An embassy from Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, which included Gautier de Bures
and Templar Hugh de Payns, arrived to visit Fulk in Anjou, offering Baldwin’s
daughter as his bride.
5/22/1128 in
Le Mans Cathedral, Anjou, Fulk’s son Geoffrey “the Fair”, age 15, married
Matilda. [The Plantagenet name apparently arises from the broom (genet) plant.]
5/31/1128,
Fulk of Anjou took the cross in Le Mans.
1128,
Widowed Fulk chosen as successor to King Baldwin II of Jerusalem.
6/22/1129,
Fulk married Queen Melisende, d/o King Baldwin II of
Jerusalem.
11/1129,
Fulk of Anjou and Baldwin II failed in an attack on Damascus.
1131, at the
Church of the Holy Sepucher, Baldwin, near death, called for Fulk and
Melisande, who brought their son Baldwin with them. Baldwin transferred the
kingdom prior to his death.
8/21/1131,
The death of Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, Melesande’s father. [Melesande’s
sister Hodierna was married to Raymond II of Tripoli. Her sister Alice was the
self-proclaimed regent of Antioch.]
9/14/1131,
Fulk became King of Jerusalem, Melisande crowned queen, in the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher.
1132, Fulk
marched against Alice of Antioch, Melisande’s sister, who had been exiled by
their father, but had returned and taken control of the city. (S) Crusade of
Kings, Peoples, 2007, P65.
1133, Fulk
learned that the Turks had invaded from Persia and were attacking Antioch. Fulk
left to Antioch and was met on the trip by Cecilia, Fulk’s half sister by his
mother and the King of France, who was married to the count of Tripoli. Cecilia
requested help for her husband who was under attack at Montferrand.
1133, Fulk
marched towards Montferrand, which caused the Zengi, atabeg of Aleppo, to
abandon his siege.
1134, Fulk
repulsed numerous attacks on the city of Antioch.
1134, Fulk
accused Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, of adultery with Melisende. Hugh
was sentenced to 3 years in exile. [Hugh allied himself with the Muslim’s of
Ascalon.]
12/22/1135,
Stephen crowned king of England.
1136, Fulk
and Melisande reconciled, Fulk agreeing to her co-rule of Jerusalem. They began
rebuilding the city, with a major focus being the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
(S) Crusaders, Jones, 2019, P154. Fulk of Anjou also ordered the construction
of the castle at Beer Sheva in order to blockade Ascalon. (S) The Holy Land,
Murphy-O’Connor, 2008, P214.
8/1/1137, Louis VII succeeded as king of France.
8/1137, Fulk
defeated in battle near Barin [Montferrand], and captured by the Turks [Zengi],
but later freed.
1138,
Melisande, wife of Fulk, added a large abbey complex next to the Tomb of
Lazarus. (S) Rough Guide to Israel, Jacobs, 1998, P416.
6/24/1139-3/29/1140,
Fulk V of Anjou, king of Jerusalem, visited by an Arab-Syrian warrior. During
the visits Fulk would sell to the visitor his captives. (S) An Arab-Syrian
Gentleman and Warrior, Munquidh, 2000, P110.
1140, Fulk
constructed the crusader fortress, the Citadel in Safed. (S) Rough Guide to
Israel, Jacobs, 1998, P241.
8/15/1141,
Fulk adjudicated a claim by the canons of St-Julien to revenues, and to
exercise rights over parts of the city of Le Mans’ fortifications.
11/10/1143,
Fulk mortally wounded at Acre in a hunting accident, crushed by his falling
horse, he died 3 days later.
(S) The
Capetians, Bradbury, 2007. (S) Conqueror’s Son, Lack, 2007. (S) Transactions –
Royal Hist. Soc., V5, 1996, P43. (S) Crusader States, Barber, 2012, P361. (S)
Real Hist. Behind the Templars, Newman, 2007. (S) Anglo-Norman Studies 32,
Lewis, 2009, P29.
Family notes:
William of
Tyre wrote “Fulk was a redhead … faithful, gentle, and unlike most of that
coloring, affable, kind and merciful.”
Children
of Fulk and Erembourg:
i. Geoffrey Plantagenet (94555136), born 8/24/1113
in Anjou, France.
ii. Elias Plantagenet, born ?.
1131,
Geoffrey’s brother Elias, count of Maine, rebelled against him. Geoffrey
captured Elias and imprisoned him in Tours. [He died soon after being released
from a disease contracted in prison.]
iii. Sybil of Anjou (189110411), born ~1117 in
Anjou, France.
Children
of Fulk and Melisende:
i. Baldwin III, born 1130 in Jerusalem.
1157, Nur
ad-Din besieged the Knights Hospitaller in the crusader fortress of Banias, and
routed a relief army from Jerusalem led by [future King of Jerusalem] Baldwin
III.
9/11/1161,
Baldwin’s mother died.
1162,
Baldwin III died. [About Baldwin, William of Tyre recorded Nur ad-Din as saying
‘We should sympathize with their grief and in pity spare them, because they
have lost a prince such as the rest of the world does not possess today.’]
ii. Alamaric, born 1134 in Jerusalem.
1174, Alamaric died.
No comments:
Post a Comment