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• Roepnaam is the Good.
• Hij is geboren rond 909 in Anjou/Pays-de-la-Loire, FRANCE.
• Hij is overleden op 11 november 958 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Touraine/Centre, FRANCE.
• Een kind van Fulk I d'Anjou en Roscilla de Loches
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 30 maart 2018.

Gezin van Fulk II "the Good" d'Anjou Count d'Anjou

(1) Hij had een relatie met Gerberge Gatanais.

Kind(eren):

1. Adélaïde d'Anjou  ± 990-± 1026 
2. Foulques III d'Anjou  ± 972-1040

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Gerberge Gatinais.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Notities over Fulk II "the Good" d'Anjou Count d'Anjou

BIOGRAPHY
Foulques was the son of Foulques I, count of Anjou, and Roselle de Loche. In 937 he md. Gerberge de Tours. Four of their children would have progeny, including his heir Geoffrey I. He was often at war with the Bretons. He seems to have been a man of culture, a poet and an artist. By reputation a saintly man, he dressed as a cleric. Of Louis IV, king of France, who had mocked his piety, Foulques commented, 'an illiterate king is a crowned ass'. Foulques died in 960.

The following was given in a post-em by Curt Hofemann, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)hoo.com:

ID: I00387 Foulques II "Le Bon" Comte d' Anjou 
(son) Foulques Seigneur de Briole b: abt. 941 in Anjou/Pays-de-la-Loire, France 

In addition to Weis AR7, other sources for this individual are: 
ES III:116 
ES XIV:116 
Leo van de Pas� Genealogics: http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00020237&tree=LEO 
Miroslav Marek (Genealogy.eu) = ES sourced 
Moriarty Plantagenet p. 4 
Paget p. 139 
Paul Theroff database 
Roglo database 
Tapsell p. 203] 
Tompsett (Hull database) 
Turton p. 6, 180 etc, 
Watney #9 

I have been following with interest your Beauvau > Briole line. I cannot confirm nor debunk the line up to Foulque II "le Bon", 3rd Comte de Anjou & Gerberge de G�tinais, but at that point there is a problem. I'm afraid no son of this couple named Foulques Seigneur de Briole is given in any of these sources. I found the connection on several websites but they are all unsourced. Sebastian Tuszynski 25 Jul 2000 msg to SGM, Subject: "A few French questions", asked about this filiation (& numerous others). Unfortunately the only response did not address this particular question. Note when researching this on the net, apparently Briol� is Briollay at many websites & on WorldConnect.

This filiation, without any reliable source to confirm it, appears to be an invention. I would love to hear from anyone reading this post-em who is willing provide any sourced info pro or con.

Jim, as an active member, perhaps another query to SGM will get a response this time. 

A little (not much) more on Foulque/Fulk: 

Fulk II, Comte d'Anjou [Ref: Turton p. 6] 
Count of Anjou [Ref: Weis AR7 118:20, Weis MC5 53:21] 
941-958: Count of Anjou [Ref: Tapsell p. 203] 
940-962 (or 942-960): 3rd Count of Anjou, [Ref: McBride: Vol I File 9: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James] 

..and under his successor, Fulk II the Good, the destruction caused by the preceding wars was repaired. [Ref: Ency Britannica]

According to legend, he was learned and saintly, dressed as a cleric and said of Louis IV, King of France, who had mocked his piety, 'an illiterate king is a crowned ass'. [Ref: Leo van de Pas� Genealogics citing: Paget] Note: "a man of wit, but perhaps lacking in tact - Louis IV was not the fool his father, Charles III "the Simple", has been profiled to have been"
Curt

Alas, I no longer have access to a terrific source which may/may not have more to say about Foulques II: "Fragmentum historieae Andegavensis" (Fragments of a History of the Counts of Anjou) From Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise by Count Fulk le Rechin 1096 (Louis Kalpen and Rene Poupardin), 1913, Paris. Should you find access to the UCLA library which probably has it, you will find this source that may have more to say about Foulques II. If memory serves me right Fulk "le Rechin" wrote many things modern scholars dispute, but he was at least contemporary, though obviously, he may have embellished a thing or two about his ancestry. 
[DLLP Note: Book is digitized and I have a downloaded copy of it.]
Regards, 
Curt

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