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Personal data Fulk "King of Jerusalem" of Anjou V

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Nickname is King of Jerusalem.
He was born between 1089 and 1092Anjou
Rhone-Alpes France.
He was christened in king 1131-1144.
Alternative: He was christened in king 1131-1144.
Alternative: He was christened in king 1131-1144.
Alternative: He was christened in the year 1109 in Anjou, France.
Alternative: He was christened in the year 1109 in Anjou, France.
Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church in SUBMITTED.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on November 2, 1932.
Alternative: Baptized (at 8 years of age or later) by the priesthood authority of the LDS church on August 13, 1991.
Occupations:

Count of Edessa 1110 and King of Jerusalem 1118 to death.
King of Jerusalem.
Comte, d'Anjou, de Tours, du Maine, Croisé, Roi, de Jérusalem.
unknown in Count of Anjou.
unknown in King of Jerusalem.
Kung av Jerusalem från 1131.
Conde de Anjou e Rei de Jerusalem.
in the year 1109 Count of Anjou.
in the year 1131 King of Jerusalem.

Resident in the year 1109: became count of Anjou.
(Misc Event) from 1067 till 1109.
(Misc Event) from 1109 till 1129.
(Misc Event) in the year 1127.
(Misc Event) in the year 1131.
(Misc Event) in the year 1131Jerusalem
Israel.
(Misc Event) in the year 1134.
(Misc Event) in the year 1137.
He died on November 10, 1143Acre
The Holy Land.
He is buried in Church of the Holy SepulcherJerusalem
Israel.
A child of Fulk d'anjou and Bertrada de Montfort
This information was last updated on August 31, 2019.

Household of Fulk "King of Jerusalem" of Anjou V

He is married to Ermengarde de Beaugency.

They got married on July 11, 1110France.

Child(ren):

Sibylla < 1112-1165
Geoffrey < 1113-1151

Notes about Fulk "King of Jerusalem" of Anjou V

GIVN Foulques V "le
SURN Anjou
NSFX [King Of Jerusal
AFN 8WKK-4W
DATE 9 SEP 2000
TIME 13:15:32

Source #1: Elizabeth Hallam, ed, "The Plantagenet Chronicles" (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986), pp. 19-24.

Source #2: Frederick Lewis Weis, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700" - Seventh Edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., assisted by David Faris (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1995), p. 106

Count of Anjou; King of Jerusalem

Married, 2ndly, 2 June 1129, Melisende de Rehel, died 11 Sept 1161, eldest daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, by who he was the father of Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, born 1130, d. s. p. 10 February 1162, and Amaury I, King of Jerusalem, born 1136, died 11 July 1174 (see also NEHGR 99:34)

Name Prefix: King Name Suffix: V, Of Jerusalem "The Younger"

REFERENCE: 1979

SOURCE CITATION:
Title: Ancestral File (TM)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
Repository Name: Family History Library
Address: 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

http://www.geocities.com/brbrooks99/gen18.html

135680. Fulk the Fifth He married 135681. Melisanda daughter of Baldwin.
135681. Melisanda daughter of Baldwin She was the daughter of 271362. Baldwin the second.

Notes for Fulk the Fifth:
!Fulk [Fulke] the fifth, called the Young, Count of anjou and King of Jerusalen
from 1131 to 1143.

Child of Fulk Fifth and Melisanda Baldwin is:
67840 i. [COUNT OF ANJOU] Geoffrey V "le Plantagenet, born August 24, 1113 in Anjou, France; died September 7, 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, France; married (1) Mrs-GeoffreyV, Concubine Plantagenet; married (2) Mrs-GeoffreyV, [Concubine Plantagenet; married (3) [EMPRESS OF GERM Matilda (Maud) Princess England May 22, 1127 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France.

135740. Louis VI King of France, died 1137. He was the son of 271480. I King of France Phillip.

Child of Louis VI King of France is:
67870 i. Louis VII King France, born Bet. 1119 - 1120 in Reims, Marne, France; died September 18, 1180 in Paris, Seine, France; married (1) [QUEEN OF ENGLAN Eleanore Princess of AQUITAINE in Bordeaux, Gironde, France; married (2) Mrs-LouisVII, Concubine France in Not Married; married (3) [QUEEN OF FRANCE Constance Alfonsez Princess CASTILE 1154 in CASTILE, Spain; married (4) Alix (Adele) Countess Champagne November 13, 1160.

FULK (1092-1143), king of Jerusalem, was the son of Fulk IV, count ofAnjou, and his wife Bertrada (who ultimately deserted her husband andbecame the mistress of Philip I of France). As Fulk V, he became count of Anjou in 1109. Within his country he was active in asserting andrecovering his powers over his vassals; outside it he played a part in the conflicts between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France, supporting each side in turn. But his ties with Henry became closer whenhis son Geoffrey Plantagenet married Henry's daughter Matilda. Already in 1120 Fulk had visited the Holy Land and become a close friend ofthe Templars. On his return he assigned to the order of the Templars an annual subsidy, while he also maintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year. In 1128 he was preparing to return to the east when he received an embassy from Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, who had no male heir to succeed him, offering his daughter Melisinda in marriage with the right of eventual succession to the kingdom. Fulk accepted the offer; and in 1129 he was married to Melisinda, receiving the towns ofAcre and Tyre as her dower. In 1131 he became king of Jerusalem.
His reign was not marked by any considerable events. The kingdom, which had reached its zenith under Baldwin II, was quietly prosperous under Fulk's rule. In the beginning of his reign he had to act as regent of Antioch and to provide a husband, Raymund of Poitou, for the infantheiress Constance. But the great problem with which he had to deal was the progress of the atabeg Zengi of Mosul. In 1137 he was beaten near Barin and, escaping into the fort, was surrounded and forced to capitulate. A little later, however, he greatly improved his position by strengthening his alliance with the vizier of Damascus, who also feared the progress of Zengi (1140); and in this way he was able to capture the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias. Like his predecessors in Anjou, Fulk was a great builder of castles. In southern Palestine he constructed Ibelin, Blanche Garde and Gibelin as a means of checking the Mohammedan garrison of Askalon. Belvoir was founded to survey the Jordan valley south of the Sea of Galilee, while in Trans-Jordan, Kerak was fortified by a royal vassal. Twice in Fulk's reign the eastern emperor, John Comnenus, appeared in northern Syria (1137 and 1142); but his coming did not affect the king, who was able to decline politely a visit which the emperor proposed to make to Jerusalem.
Fulk died in 1143 leaving two sons who both became kings and reigned as Baldwin III and Amalric I.
Fulk continued the tradition of good statemanship and sound churchmanship which Baldwin I and Baldwin II had begun. Unfortunately he was unable to head a combined resistance to the rising power of Zengi of Mosul

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Count of Anjou (1109-1129; King of Jerusalem (1131-43). "Fulk married the only daughter of Elias, Count of Maine, in 1109, thereby uniting Anjou and Maine. In 1120 he went on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. In 1128 a delegation from Baudouin II, king of Jerusalem, arrived in France asking Louis VII to choose one of the French nobility to marry his daughter Melisande and become heir to the throne of Jerusalem. Fulk, by then a widower, was chosen. He married Melisande in 1129 and succeeded as King of Jerusalem in 1131. To defend the Holy City from the Muslim champion Zengi, Fulk allied with the Emir of Damascus and the emperor of Constantinople during the early 1130s. Turkish raiders took him prisoner in 1137, but them freed him."

Source: Elizabeth Hallam, The Plantagenet Encyclopedia (NY: Crescent Books, 1996) 81.[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #1241, Date of Import: May 8, 1997]

!COUNT OF ANJOUCount of Anjou (1109-1129; King of Jerusalem (1131-43). "Fulk married the only daughter of Elias, Count of Maine, in 1109, thereby uniting Anjou and Maine. In 1120 he went on pilgrimage in the Holy Land. In 1128 a delegation from Baudouin II, king of Jerusalem, arrived in France asking Louis VII to choose one of the French nobility to marry his daughter Melisande and become heir to the throne of Jerusalem. Fulk, by then a widower, was chosen. He married Melisande in 1129 and succeeded as King of Jerusalem in 1131. To defend the Holy City from the Muslim champion Zengi, Fulk allied with the Emir of Damascus and the emperor of Constantinople during the early 1130s. Turkish raiders took him prisoner in 1137, but them freed him."

Source: Elizabeth Hallam, The Plantagenet Encyclopedia (NY: Crescent Books, 1996) 81.[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #1241, Date of Import: May 8, 1997]

!COUNT OF ANJOU

Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately 20. 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 Fulk's 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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own step-son accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's skull was crushed by the saddle. He was carried back to Acre, where he died and was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. 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 of Tyre, 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 (see Siege of Edessa).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_of_Jerusalem)

Byname Fulk The Younger, French Foulques Le Jeunecount of Anjou and Maine as Fulk V(1109–31) and king of Jerusalem (1131–43).
Son of Fulk IV the Surly and Bertrada of Montfort, he was married in 1109 to Arenburga of Maine. Fulk exerted his control over his vassals and was later caught up in dynastic quarrels between the French and English kings. In 1128 his son Geoffrey Plantagenet married Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, and became the progenitor of England's branch of the Angevin dynasty. Fulk first visited Palestine in 1120 and returned in 1129 to marry Melisend, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem.
Fulk became king of Jerusalem on Baldwin II's death in 1131 and spent the first year of his reign settling a dispute in Antioch (Turkey) and putting down a revolt led by his wife's lover,Hugh of Le Puiset. In 1137 he allied himself with the Byzantines against a Turkish leader, ÅIm(d ad-DYn ZangY, of Mosul (Iraq), and in 1140 helped the Muslims of Damascus ward offZangY's armies. He protected Jerusalem in the south by constructing a series of fortresses, including Krak of Moab.

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Fulk V, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem.

Fulk of Jerusalem
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Fulk V of Anjou (1089/1092 – November 13, 1143), also known as Fulk the Young, and after 1131 as Fulk of Jerusalem, was Count of Anjou from 1109 to 1129, and king of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death.

Contents [hide]
1 Count of Anjou
2 Crusader and King
3 Securing the borders
4 Death
5 Family
6 Sources
7 Historical Fiction

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Count of Anjou
Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and became the mistress of King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately 20. 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 Fulk's 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.

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Crusader and King
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 daughter's 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 then mere consort of the Queen; he wanted to be king alongside Melisende. Baldwin II, reflecting on Fulk's 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 Balwin II bolstered Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own step-son accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

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Securing the borders
Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberiasand thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

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Death
In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's skull was crushed by the saddle. He was carried back to Acre, where he died and was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. 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 of Tyre, 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 (see Siege of Edessa).

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Family
In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

Geoffrey of Anjou
Sibylle of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders
Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.
Elias II of Maine (died 1151)
His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Amalric I of Jerusalem
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Sources
Orderic Vitalis
Robert of Torigny
William of Tyre
Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker, the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978
Payne, Robert. The Dream and the Tomb, 1984
The Damascus Chronicle of Crusades, trans. H.A.R. Gibb, 1932.

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Historical Fiction
Judith Tarr, "Queen of Swords", A Forge Book, Published by Tom Doherty LLC., 1997

Preceded by:
Fulk IV Count of Anjou
1106–1129 Succeeded by:
Geoffrey V
Preceded by:
William Rufus Count of Maine
1110–1126
Preceded by:
Baldwin II King of Jerusalem
1131–1143
(with Melisende) Succeeded by:
Melisende and Baldwin III

It has been said that Fulk V died at a family picnic where he was thrown from a horse. No one knows if there was foul play. Melissande appointed her oldest son, Baldwin, to help her in her duties. They were to rule together. Baldwin was not happy with a shared throne, so he had himself crowned while Melissande was away.

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The following is from: The Dream and the Tomb 'A History of the Crusades' by Robert Payne

pg 149

In the autumn of 1142, King Fulk and Queen Melisende went on holiday to Acre, accompanied by the court. The king had a good deal of business to do in the palace, and soon the queen, bored by the ceremonial life at court and anxious to see more of her husband, suggested that they should visit a place called the Springs of the Oxen, where according to the ancient legend Adam found the oxen which enabled him to plow the earth. So they went off in a long cavalcade, the servants being sent ahead to prepare the way and to arrange for the festivities that would take place when they reached the springs. Everyone was in good spirits; it was a fine sunlit day and the plain of Acre had never looked lovelier.
It was not a hunting party; it was simply a ride into the country. But it became a hunting party when one of the servants riding ahead startled a hare lying in a furrow. Suddenly, all were chasing after the hare. The king, accompanied by his escort, dug his spurs into his horse, and with his lance at the ready he pursued the hare with wild excitement and at breakneck speed. Suddenly his horse stumbled and fell, and he was thrown head foremost over the horse's head. His saddle fell on him and crushed his skull. There was nothing to be done for him. He lingered on for three days without regaining consciousness.
The dying king was brought to Acre, where hugh crowds gave expression to their grief. He died on November 10, 1142, at the age of fifty-three. A few days later King Fulk was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He left two children: Baldwin, who was thirteen, and Amaury, who was seven.

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Suffix King Of Jerusalem
Birth 1092 of , Anjou, France Find all individuals with events at this location
Sex Male
Died 10 Nov 1143 Jerusalem, Palestine Find all individuals with events at this location
Buried Church Of The Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, Israel Find all individuals with events at this location
Person ID I9331 Fairbanks Family Tree
Last Modified 15 Feb 2005

Father Foulques IV "Rechin" Count Of ANJOU, IV, b. 1043, of , Anjou, France
Mother Bertrade De MONTFORT, Queen Of France, b. Abt 1059, of Montfort Amaury, Ile DE France, France
Family ID F7305 Group Sheet

Family 1 Ermengarde (Ermentrude) Du MAINE, Countess Of Anjou, b. Abt 1096, , Maine, France
Married 11 Jul 1110 , , France Find all individuals with events at this location
Children
1. Mathilde D' ANJOU, Duchess Of Normandy, b. Abt 1104, of Angers, Maine-Et-Loire, France
2. Sibilla D' ANJOU, Countess Of Flanders, b. Abt 1105, of , Anjou, France
3. Elias D' ANJOU, Count Du Maine, b. Abt 1111, of , Anjou, France
4. Geoffrey V "Le Bon" PLANTAGENET, Count Of Anjou, b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, , France
Last Modified 15 Feb 2005
Family ID F5204 Group Sheet

Family 2 Melisende D' EDESSE QUEEN OF JERUSALEM
Married 1129 , , France Find all individuals with events at this location

!DESCENT: Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots
of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 7th ed., at 106
(1992). Line 118-24.

He became King of Jerusalem 1131 on the death of his 2nd Father-in-Law.

FULK V, LE JEAUNE. COUNT OF ANJOU AND MAIN. CROWNED KING OF JERUSALEM
9-14-1131. BORN 1092 DIESD 11-13-1144 BURIED IN THE CHURCH OF THESEPUL CHRE AT
JERUSALEM. HE MARRIED 2ND, MELISINDE, DAUGHTER OF BALDWIN 11 D. 9-1160 /61.

Fulk

1092-1143, Latin king of Jerusalem (1131?43), count of Anjou (1109?29) a s Fulk V, great-grandson of Fulk Nerra. He journeyed (1120) to the Holy Land as a pilgrim and returned there in 1129, making his son, Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou as Geoffrey IV. Having taken as his new wife Melisende, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, he succeeded his father -in-law in 1131. Fulk?s reign was disturbed by dissensions among the Latin princes and by the raids of the Turks, whose prisoner he was for a time in 1137. He was succeeded as king of Jerusalem by his son by Melisende , Baldwin III.

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ROGERS1.GED, "le Jeune", d & bur place Church of Holy Sepulcher

"History ... Crusades..", Vol II, Appendix III, Chart 1, Fulk of Anjou, p151 crowned King Fulk of Jerusalem on 14 Sep 1131

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[janet skelton.FTW]

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[janet skelton.FTW]

Count of Anjou

Father: Foulques IV Of ANJOU b: 1043 in Angouleme Charente, France
Mother: Bertrade De MONTFORT b: 1059 in Of, Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France

Marriage 1 Ermengarde (Ermentrude) Du MAINE b: 1096 in , , Maine, France
Married: 11 Jul 1110 in , , , France 1 1 1
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Mathilde D' ANJOU b: Abt 1104 in Of, Angers, Maine-Et-Loire, France
Elias D' ANJOU b: Abt 1111 in Of, , Anjou, France
Sibilla D' ANJOU b: Abt 1105 in Of, , Anjou, France
Geoffrey V PLANTAGENET b: 24 Aug 1113 in , , Anjou, France
Adelaide PLANTAGENET

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Fulk became King of Jerusalem in 1131, and reigned until his death inAcre on 10 Nov 1143.
Rule passed to his eldest son, Baldwin III, who wasonly 13 years of age at his father's death.

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Ref; Became King Of Jerusalem in 1131 on the death of his 2ndFather-in-Law
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In 1131, became king of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, which his
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Resigned Anjou to his son

Also assisting Baldwin during the attack on Damascus was his new son-in-law, Fulk V of Anjou. Baldwin had no sons with Morphia, but four daughters: Melisende, Alice, Hodierna, and Ioveta. In 1129 Baldwin named Melisende his heir, and arranged for her to marry Fulk. His daughters Alice and Hodierna also married important princes, Bohemund II of Antioch and Raymond II of Tripoli respectively (his fourth daughter Ioveta became a nun in Bethany). In 1131 Baldwin fell sick and died on August 21, and was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Melisende, by law the heir to the kingdom, succeeded him with Fulk as her consort. The new queen and king were crowned on September 14.

The two Angevin dynasties in medieval Europe originated from the French countship of Anjou. In 1131, Fulk V, count of Anjou, became king of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, which his descendants ruled until 1186. Fulk's eldest son, Geoffrey Plantagenet, married (1128) Matilda, queen of England, and their son Henry II became (1154) the first Angevin, or Plantagenet, king of England. This house ruled England until Richard II was overthrown (1399) by Henry IV of Lancaster.
Louis VI, King of France, chose Fulk to be the successor to King Baldwin II by marrying his daughter Melisende. He had made a military pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1120. He was a seasoned soldier and an able admistrator. He was a short, fat, coarse, redhaired man of forty and was not considered an ideal suitor for the lovely Melisende but she was sacrificed for political necessity and were married on June 2, 1129. She had been in love with a childhood friend, Hugh of Poiset, who was murdered by a knight from Brittany. The young queen thought Fulk may have been involved with his death, which was denied by the knight who had committed the murder. Melisende had an autocratic disposition and was quick to take advantage of her husbands genuine affection for her. (from "The Crusades" by Zoe Oldenbourg, 1966 p259-305)
In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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

!Title was; King of Jerusalem.

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Notes for Foulques V Count d'Anjou:

King of Jerusalem ; "le Jeune"

"The Plantagenet Encyclopedia" by Elizabeth Hallam, Grove Weidenfeld,New York, 1990, p.81

"Fulk married the only daughter of Elias, count of Maine, in 1109,thereby ultimately uniting Anjou and Maine. In 1120 he went onpilgrimage to the Holy Land. In 1128 a delegation from Baldwin II,King of Jerusalem, arrived in France, asking Louis VII to choose oneof the French nobility to marry his daughter Melisande and become heirto the throne of Jerusalem. Fulk, by then a widower, was chosen. Hemarried Melisande in 1129 and succeeded as King of Jerusalem in 1131.To defend the holy city from the Muslim champion, Zengi, Fulk alliedwith the emir of Damascus and the Emperor of Constantinople during theearly 1130s. Turkish raiders took him prisoner in 1137, but then freedhim."

Fulk is styled as having lived 'an honorable life and having ruled hi s territory wisely'. He was a 'ruddy man, faithful and gentle, affabl e and kind and a powerful prince'. He became the Count of Maine as a result of his first marriage. In about 1113, Fulk sought a peace wit h Henry I of England. In 1120, Fulk made a pilgrimage to the Holy La nd, and in 1127, went on asecond pilgrimage, at which time he married Melisinda (Melisende) thedaughter of Baldwin II. He became count of A njou (as Fulk V) in 1109. His accession in 1109, meant that an agresi ve Anjou would soon threaten Normandie. He initially refused to do ho mage to Henry I for Maine. With Louis VI of France and Baldwin VII o f Flanders, Fulk launched a series of attacks on sourthern Normandie i n support of William Clito between 1118 and 1119. He was originally a n opponent of Henry I of England and a supporter of Louis VI of France , but in 1127 he allied with Henry when Henry arranged for his daughte r Matilda to marry Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet. Fulk was responsi ble for the consolidation of power within the realm of the House of An jou.

Fulk visited the Holy Land in 1120, and become a close friend of the T emplars. After his return he began to subsidize the Templars and alsom aintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year. When Fulk returne d from the Holy Land in 1121, he requested that Matilda, wife of the d eceased William Adelin, be returned to his care, which Henry complied with. In 1128 he was preparing to return to the East when he receive d an embassy from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem who had no male heir t o succeed him. Baldwin arranged for Fulk to marry his daughter Melisen de, which would allow Fulkto succeed Baldwin as king. Fulk accepted th e offer and in 1129 he and Melisende were married, with the towns of A cre and Tyre as her dowry. In 1131 Fulk became king of Jerusalem whe n Baldwin II died. The kingdom under Fulk was prosperous, and at the b eginning of his reign he also acted as regent of the Principality of A ntioch. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II. However, the greatest concern dur ing Fulk's reign was the rise of atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated near Barin. Fulk then allied with the vizie r of Damascus, who was also threatened by Zengi, and was able to captu re the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias. Fulk also streng thened the kingdom to the south. His butler Paganus built the fortres s of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdoma ccess to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. In 113 7 & 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempti ng to impose Byzantine control over the Crusader States. John'sarriva l was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet John in Jeru salem. In the 1140 Battle of Bilbais, Fulk of Anjou invaded Egypt an d was confronted by a Fatamid army lead by al-Abbas. Fulk died in 114 3, leaving two sons who both became kings, as Baldwin III and Amalric I.

William of Tyre described Fulk as a capable soldier and politician, wh o defended both the kingdom and the church, reflecting the policies o f his predecessors Baldwin I and Baldwin II. William felt that the maj or fault of Fulk's reign was his inattention to the defense of the sta tes to the north against the invasions of Zengi, which culminated in t he fall of the County of Edessa in 1143.Fulk V of Anjou (1089/1092 - N ovember 13, 1143), also known as Fulk the Young, and after 1131 as Ful k of Jerusalem, was Count of Anjou from 1109 to 1129, and king of Jeru salem from 1131 to his death. He was born between 1089 and 1092, thes on of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertra de deserted her husband and became the mistress of King Philip I of Fr ance.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age o f approximately 20. He was originally an opponent of King Henry I of E ngland and a supporter of King Louis VI of France, but in 1127 he alli ed with Henry when Henry arranged for his daughter Matilda to marry Fu lk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and becomea close friend of the Knights Templar. After his return he began to subs idize the Templars, and maintained two knights in the Holy Land fora y ear. By 1127 Fulk was preparing to return to Anjou when he received a n embassy from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Baldwin II had no male he irs but had already designated his daughter Melisende to succeed him. Baldwin II wanted to safeguard his daughter's inheritance by marrying her to a powerful lord. Fulk was a wealthy crusader and experienced mi litary commander, and a widower. His experience in the field would pro ve invaluable in a frontier state always in the grip of war.

However, Fulk held out for better terms then mere consort of the Queen ; he wanted to be king alongside Melisende. Baldwin II, reflecting onF ulk's fortune and military exploits, acquiesced. Fulk abdicated his co unty seat of Anjou to his son Geoffery and left for Jerusalem, whereh e married Melisende on June 2, 1129. Later Balwin II bolstered Melisen de's position in the kingdom by making her sole guardian of her son b y Fulk, Baldwin III, born in 1130. Fulk and Melisende became joint ru lers of Jerusalem in 1131 with Baldwin II's death. From the start Ful k assumed sole control of the government, excluding Melisende altogeth er. He favored fellow countrymen from Anjou to the native nobility. Th e other crusader states to the north feared that Fulk would attempt t o 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, t he northern states rejected his authority. Melisende's sister Alice o f Antioch, exiled from the Principality by Baldwin II, took control o f Antioch once more after the deathof her father. She allied with Pon s of Tripoli and Joscelin II of Edessa to prevent Fulk from marching n orth in 1132; Fulk and Pons foughta brief battle before peace was mad e and Alice was exiled again.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Je rusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. The se "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of LeP uiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own step-son accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accu sed him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh s ecured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalo n. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this si tuation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict,perha ps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh wasexile d from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or hiss upporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof nev er surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's part y to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Autho r and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "wen t in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and his torian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the i nitiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". Th e result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control overt he government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appoin ted regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent heh ad Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughtero f Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However,th e greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengiof Mosul. In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied wit h Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threate ned by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake T iberiasand thus secured the northern frontier. Fulk also strengthene d the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortres s of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other fort s built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalo n.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syriaa ttempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John' s arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet thee mperor in Jerusalem. In 1143, while the king and queen were on holida y in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's skull was crushed by the saddle. He was carried back to Acre, where he died and was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulc hre. Though their marriage started in conflict, Melisende mourned for him privately as well as publicly. Fulk was survived by his son Geoffe ry of Anjou by his first wife, and Baldwin III and Amalric I by Melise nde.

According to William of Tyre, Fulk was "a ruddy man, like David... fai thful and gentle, affable and kind... an experienced warrior full of p atience and wisdom in military affairs." His chief fault was an inabil ity to remember names and faces. William of Tyre described Fulk as ac apable soldier and able politician, but observed that Fulk did not ade quately attend to the defense of the crusader states to the north. Ib n al-Qalanisi (who calls him al-Kund Anjur, an Arabic rendering of "Co unt of Anjou") says that "he was not sound in his judgment nor was hes uccessful in his administration." The Zengids continued their march o n the crusader states, culminating in the fall of the County of Edess a in 1144, which led to the Second Crusade (see Siege of Edessa).

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter o f Elias I of Maine. Their four children were: Geoffrey of Anjou; Sibyl le of Anjou (1112-1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div . 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders; Alice (or Isabell a) (1107-1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death i n the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault; Eli as II of Maine (died 1151). His second wife was Melisende, Queen of J erusalem. Their children included: Baldwin III of Jerusalem; Amalric I of Jerusalem

GIVN Foulques V "le
SURN Anjou
NSFX [King Of Jerusal
AFN 8WKK-4W
DATE 9 SEP 2000
TIME 13:15:32

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Name Suffix: Count of Anjou

#Générale##Générale#Profession : Comte d'Anjou Roi de Jérusalem en 1131.
Décès : ou 13 Novembre 1142

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=Foulques V "le Jeune" de Anjou =

Knight Templar, King of Jerusalem 1131 - 1142/3
9th Count of Anjou 1109 - 1129

b 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 d'Anjou 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

===Sources===

1. 15. "Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700", Frederick Lewis Weis, 1992, seventh edition. and/or " Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists", 6th edition, Line 50, by Dr. Frederich Lewis Weis.

2. 52. 52 "British Kings & Queens" by Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf Publications, Inc, 1998 (in Lady Anne's library)

3. 107. "The Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles", Gerald [Paget]

4. 109. "Dynastic Genealogy Files", Paul Theroff. Based primarily on Europaeische Stammtafeln

5. 110. "[Plantagenet ]Ancestry", by Turton

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Fulk (1089/1092 in Angers – November 13, 1143 in Acre), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death. He was also the paternal grandfather of Henry II of England.

Fulk was born in Angers between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately twenty. In that year, he married Erembourg of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine.

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

* 1. Geoffrey V of Anjou, father of Henry II of England.
* 2. Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders.
* 3. Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.
* 4. Elias II of Maine (died 1151)

His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

* 1. Baldwin III of Jerusalem
* 2. Amalric I of Jerusalem

===Sources===

* Orderic Vitalis
* Robert of Torigny
* William of Tyre
* Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker, the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978
* Payne, Robert. The Dream and the Tomb, 1984
* The Damascus Chronicle of Crusades, trans. H.A.R. Gibb, 1932.

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Foulques became count of Anjou upon his father's 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 Fulk's 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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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.

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Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's 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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states (in shades of green) in 1135 CE, during the reign of Fulk.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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

The death of Fulk, as depicted in MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C. Bib. Nat. Française.)

Death:

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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 (see Siege of Edessa).

Family:

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. T

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FOULQUES d'Anjou, son of FOULQUES IV "le Réchiin" Comte d'Anjou & his fifth wife Bertrade de Montfort (1092-Acre 10 or 13 Nov 1144). The Gesta Consulum Andegavorum records that "Fulco" was the son of "Fulco Rechin" and "sororem Amalrici de Monte Forti", referring to her as his third wife[273]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Gaufridum iuniorem Martellum et Fulconam" as the two sons of "Fulco"[274]. William of Tyre names him and records his parentage[275]. His parentage is also given by Orderic Vitalis[276]. "Fulco Andegavensis comes" donated property to Angers with the consent of "filiis meis Gaufrido et Fulconello et filia mea Ermengarde" by charter dated 23 Jun 1096[277]. William of Tyre records that Foulques was imprisoned by the Comte de Poitou but released after the intervention of his mother, who was by then queen of France[278]. He succeeded his father in 1109 as FOULQUES V "le Jeune" Comte d'Anjou. "Fulco iunior Andegavensium comes Fulconis comitis filius" donated property to the abbey of Fontevraud with the consent of "Bertrade regina matre meo, Philipo fratre meo" by charter dated to [1109/1112/13][279]. "Fulcho iunior comes Fulchonis comitis filius, frater Martelli Iunioris" donated property to Saint-Aubin d'Angers by charter dated 4 Jan 1113[280]. Orderic Vitalis records that Foulques swore fealty to Henry I King of England, who invested him with the county of Maine, at "Petra Peculata" near Alençon in late Feb 1113, the alliance being confirmed by the betrothal of Henry's son to Foulques's daughter[281]. He later fought with King Henry I over the inheritance of his first wife. William of Malmesbury also records his dispute with King Henry over the latter's retention of the dowry of Foulques’s daughter Alice after her husband died in the Blanche Nef [White Ship][282]. The quarrel finally ended with the marriage of Foulques’s son to the king's daughter in 1128. Orderic Vitalis records that Foulques went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1120 and remained there "for some time attached to the Knights of the Temple"[283]. He left France in early 1129, resigning the county of Anjou to his older son by his first marriage, and landed at Acre in May 1129 before travelling to Jerusalem for his second marriage[284]. He was crowned FOULQUES King of Jerusalem 14 Sep 1131, by right of his second wife. He imposed himself as regent of Antioch after his sister-in-law Alix Ctss of Antioch attempted to reassert her right to the regency after the death of her father. He rescued Pons Count of Tripoli from the castle of Montferrand in 1133, where he had fled after being ambushed by Turkomans in the Nosairi Mountains. He also relieved Antioch which was being threatened by Sawar Governor of Aleppo[285]. Zengi marched on Homs and besieged the castle. King Foulques attempted to relieve the siege, but his army was massacred, and Foulques was obliged to seek refuge in the castle which he was eventually obliged to surrender as the price for his own release[286]. He agreed an alliance with Unur of Damascus in 1139 against Zengi atabeg of Aleppo, who was threatening Damascus, and forced the latter's retreat to Aleppo[287]. King Foulques died after being thrown from his horse during a hunting party[288]. The necrology of Angers Cathedral records the death "IV Id Nov" of "Fulco prius Andegavorum comes postea rex Hierusalem"[289].

'''m''' firstly (before 14 Apr 1109, 11 Jul 1110) EREMBURGE du Maine, daughter and heiress of HELIE de la Flèche Comte du Maine & his first wife Mathilde de Château-du-Loir ([1096]-14 Jan 1126). Orderic Vitalis names “Eremburgem” as the daughter of “Helias [de Balgenceio]” and his wife “Gervasii de Castro Ligeri...filiam”, adding that she married “domini sui filio Fulconi Andegavorum comiti”[290]. The Gesta Consulum Andegavorum records that "Fulcone Richin filius eius Fulco" was married to "Helia Cenomannensi comite, unicam filiam suam" who had been betrothed to "Martellus frater suus"[291]. A charter dated 25 Apr 1120 records that "comes Andergavensis Fulco Fulconis et comitissa uxor eius Aremburgis filia comitis Helie" were present at the consecration of the church of Le Mans[292]. She succeeded her father in 1110 as Ctss du Maine. "Arenburgim Andegavensem comitissam…vir meus Fulco Andegavensium comes Fulconis comitis filius" donated property to the abbey of Fontevraud by charter dated 18 Aug, dated to [1109/15][293]. The necrology of Angers Cathedral records the death "XVIII Kal Feb" of "Haremburgis Andegavorum nobilis comitissa"[294]. The Chronicæ Sancti Albini records the death in 1126 of "Arenburgis comitissa"[295]. The necrology of the Prieuré de Fontaines records the death "15 Jan" of "Aremburgis comitissa"[296].

'''m''' secondly (Jerusalem 2 Jun 1129) MELISENDE of Jerusalem, daughter of BAUDOUIN II King of Jerusalem & his wife Morphia of Melitene (-11 Sep 1161). She is named by William of Tyre who also records her parentage[297]. In 1127, her father sent Guillaume de Bures and Guy Brisebarre to France to offer her hand in marriage to Foulques V Comte d'Anjou as part of his plan for her eventual succession to the throne of Jerusalem[298]. "Milisenda filia regis…" subscribed the charter dated Mar 1128 under which "Balduinus…rex Iherusalem Latinorum secundus" granted privileges to the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem[299]. She succeeded her father in 1131 as MELISENDE Queen of Jerusalem, crowned with her husband 14 Sep 1131. She founded the convent of St Lazarus at Bethany in 1143, and installed her sister Yvette as abbess[300]. After her husband's death, she and her son Baudouin were crowned as king and queen together 25 Dec 1144, but Queen Melisende assumed the government of the kingdom herself. She took as her adviser her first cousin Manassès de Hierges, Constable of Jerusalem[301]. She was in open breach with her son, after he was crowned again as an adult 2 Apr 1151 at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, without informing his mother. A council agreed that he would rule in Galilee and the northern part of the kingdom, while Mélisende retained Jerusalem and Nablus. King Baudouin demanded Jerusalem from her but she refused. He captured Constable Manassès at his castle of Mirabel in 1152 and expelled him from Palestine, after which his mother was obliged to yield Jerusalem[302]. Queen Mélisende presided over a council of regency in 1157 while her son was absent from Jerusalem on campaign[303].

*Foulques V & his first wife had four children:
*Comte Foulques V & his second wife had two children:

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FOULQUES d'Anjou, son of FOULQUES IV "le Réchiin" Comte d'Anjou & his fifth wife Bertrade de Montfort (1092-Acre 10 or 13 Nov 1144). The Gesta Consulum Andegavorum records that "Fulco" was the son of "Fulco Rechin" and "sororem Amalrici de Monte Forti", referring to her as his third wife[258]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Gaufridum iuniorem Martellum et Fulconam" as the two sons of "Fulco"[259]. William of Tyre names him and states his parentage[260]. His parentage is given by Orderic Vitalis[261]. "Fulco Andegavensis comes" donated property to Angers with the consent of "filiis meis Gaufrido et Fulconello et filia mea Ermengarde" by charter dated 23 Jun 1096[262]. William of Tyre records that Foulques was imprisoned by the Comte de Poitou but released after the intervention of his mother, who was by then queen of France[263]. He succeeded his father in 1109 as FOULQUES V "le Jeune" Comte d'Anjou. "Fulco iunior Andegavensium comes Fulconis comitis filius" donated property to the abbey of Fontevraud with the consent of "Bertrade regina matre meo, Philipo fratre meo" by charter dated to [1109/1112/13][264]. "Fulcho iunior comes Fulchonis comitis filius, frater Martelli Iunioris" donated property to Saint-Aubin d'Angers by charter dated 4 Jan 1113[265]. He swore fealty to Henry I King of England, who invested him with the county of Maine, at "Petra Peculata" near Alençon in late Feb 1113, the alliance being confirmed by the betrothal of Henry's son to Foulques's daughter[266]. He fought with Henry I King of England over the inheritance of his first wife. There was also a dispute over King Henry's retention of the dowry of his daughter Alice after her husband's death in the Blanche Nef [White Ship][267]. The quarrel finally ended with his son's marriage to the king's daughter in 1128. Orderic Vitalis records that he went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1120 and remained there "for some time attached to the Knights of the Temple"[268]. He left France in early 1129, resigning the county of Anjou to his older son by his first marriage, and landed at Acre in May 1129 before travelling to Jerusalem for his marriage[269]. He was crowned FOULQUES King of Jerusalem 14 Sep 1131, by right of his second wife. He imposed himself as regent of Antioch after his sister-in-law Alix Ctss of Antioch attempted to reassert her right to the regency after the death of her father. He rescued Pons Count of Tripoli from the Castle of Montferrand in 1133, where he had fled after being ambushed by Turkomans in the Nosairi Mountains. He also relieved Antioch which was being threatened by Sawar Governor of Aleppo[270]. Zengi marched on Homs and besieged the castle of Montferrand. King Foulques went to relieve the siege, but his army was massacred, and he was obliged to seek refuge in the castle which he was eventually obliged to surrender as the price for his own release[271]. He agreed an alliance with Unur of Damascus in 1139 against Zengi atabeg of Aleppo, who was threatening Damascus, and forced the latter's retreat to Aleppo[272]. King Foulques died after being thrown from his horse during a hunting party[273]. The necrology of Angers Cathedral records the death "IV Id Nov" of "Fulco prius Andegavorum comes postea rex Hierusalem"[274].

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Foulque V d'Anjou, dit le Jeune, né vers 1090 à Angers, mort le 10 novembre 1143 ou 1144 à Acre, fut comte d'Anjou et de Tours de 1109 à 1129, comte du Maine de 1110 à 1129, puis roi de Jérusalem de 1131 à 1143. Il était de la famille des Ingelgeriens et fils cadet de Foulque IV Réchin, comte d'Anjou et de Tours, et de Bertrade de Montfort.

Son demi-frère aîné Geoffroy Martel, s'était révolté contre leur père et Foulque soutint son père contre son frère. Geoffroy fut assassiné au siège de Candé en 1106, et Foulque le Réchin mourut en 1109. Foulques le jeune devint alors comte d'Anjou et de Tours.

Sommaire

1 Comte d'Anjou et du Maine

2 Roi de Jérusalem

3 Mariage et enfants

4 Sources

Comte d'Anjou et du Maine

La majeure partie de ses activités en tant que comte d'Anjou est de mater et réduire ses vassaux les plus turbulents, notamment ceux d'Amboise. Il prend et fait détruire plusieurs châteaux parmi les plus menaçants pour son pouvoir. Juste après son avènement, il épouse Erembourg, fille et héritière d'Hélie de Beaugency, comte du Maine. Ce mariage rattache définitivement le Maine à l'Anjou, mais le contraint à mener une politique louvoyante entre Henri Ier Beauclerc, roi d'Angleterre et duc de Normandie, et Louis VI le Gros, roi de France. Au fil de ces renversement d'alliances, il marie sa fille au fils d'Henri Ier en 1113.

Il part combattre en Terre Sainte en 1120 et, à son retour, se rallie au roi de France et le soutient dans sa lutte contre l'empereur Henri V et le roi Henri Ier. A l'occasion, il marie sa fille Sibylle à Guillaume Cliton, prétendant au trône d'Angleterre. Au renversement d'alliances suivant, en 1124, ce mariage sera annulé et son fils Geoffroy V épousera en 1128 Mathilde, fille d'Henri Beauclerc et veuve de l'empereur Henri V. Ce mariage est à l'origine de la dynastie des Plantagenêts.

Roi de Jérusalem

mariage entre Foulque d'Anjou et Mélisende de Jérusalem

Mort de Foulque suite à une chute de cheval. Guillaume de Tyr, XIIIe siècle

Au cours de son premier pèlerinage en 1120, il avait acquis en Terre sainte une grande réputation, et, devenu veuf en 1126, il est pressenti pour épouser Mélisende de Jérusalem, fille du roi de Jérusalem Baudouin II. Il retourne donc en Terre sainte en 1129, abandonnant à son fils Geoffroy le Bel toutes ses possessions en France.

À la mort de Baudouin II en 1131, il est élu roi de Jérusalem. Foulque doit lutter contre la rébellion d'Hugues II du Puiset, comte de Jaffa, contre sa belle-sœur Alix de Jérusalem, princesse d'Antioche qui n'hésita pas à appeler à son aide l'atabeg Zengi et soutenue par Pons de Tripoli. Il vint à bout de tous ces troubles et parvint à maintenir un équilibre entre les Francs et les Musulmans.

Il meurt à Acre le 10 novembre 1143 d'une chute de cheval, laissant deux fils mineurs, les futurs Baudouin III et Amaury Ier.

Mariage et enfants

Il avait épousé en premières noces en 1110 Erembourg († 1126), comtesse du Maine, fille d'Hélie de Beaugency, comte du Maine, et de Mathilde de Château-Du-Loir, et avait eu :

Geoffroy V le Bel ou Plantagenêt († 1151), comte d'Anjou, de Tours, du Maine et duc de Normandie

Hélie II († 1151), comte du Maine

Mathilde (1108 † 1155), mariée à Guillaume Adelin († 1120), fils et héritier du roi Henri Ier d'Angleterre; elle fut abbesse de Fontevraud (1149-1155).

Sibylle († 1119), mariée en 1121 à Guillaume Cliton. Le mariage fut annulé en 1124, et elle se remaria en 1139 avec Thierry d'Alsace, comte de Flandre.

Veuf, il se remaria avec Mélisende de Jérusalem (1101 † 1161), fille de Baudouin II, roi de Jérusalem, et de Morfia de Malatya. Ils eurent :

Baudouin III (1131 † 1163), roi de Jérusalem

Amaury Ier (1136† 1174), roi de Jérusalem

Précédé par Foulque V d'Anjou Suivi par

Foulque IV le Réchin comte d'Anjou et de Tours

Geoffroy V le Bel ou Plantagenêt

Hélie de Beaugency comte du Maine

avec Erembourg

Baudouin II roi de Jérusalem

avec Mélisende

Baudouin III

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Count of Anjou and King of Jerusalem. Fulk V is a lineal descendant of Pepin, the King of Lombardy and Italy. This Pepin was the son of Charlemagne (721-814), "Emperor of the West" and was the gr. grandson of Charles Martel (688-741). Some genealogists claim that the lineal ancestry is easily traceable from here to Julius Caesar, 1st of Caesar's who lived c300 B.C.

In the line between Caesar and Clovis stands the name of King Colius II of Britain whose name has been preserved in "Mother Goose Tales" as "Old King Cole".

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Fulk of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem

Reign 1131-1143

Coronation 1131

Born 1089/92

Died 13 November 1143

Place of death Acre

Buried Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem

Consort

Melisende (1105-1164)

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

Geoffrey (1113–1151)

Sibylla (1112–1165)

Alice (1107–1154

Elias (11??-1151)

Father Fulk IV of Anjou (1043–1109)

Mother Bertrade de Montfort (c.1070-1117)

Fulk V (1089/1092 – November 13, 1143), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death.

Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's 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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

The death of Fulk, as depicted in MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C. Bib. Nat. Française.)

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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 (see Siege of Edessa).

Geoffrey V of Anjou

Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders

Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.

Elias II of Maine (died 1151)

His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Baldwin III of Jerusalem

Amalric I of Jerusalem

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Fulk (1089/1092 in Angers – November 13, 1143 in Acre), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death. He was also the paternal grandfather of Henry II of England.

Count of Anjou

Fulk was born in Angers between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately twenty. In that year, he married Erembourg of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine.

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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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.

Crusader and King

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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's position in the kingdom by making her sole guardian of her son by Fulk, Baldwin III, born in 1130.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states (in shades of green) in 1135 CE, during the reign of Fulk.

Fulk and Melisende became joint rulers of Jerusalem in 1131 with Baldwin II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

Securing the borders

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

The death of Fulk, as depicted in MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C. Bib. Nat. Française.)

Death

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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 (see Siege of Edessa).

Family

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

Geoffrey V of Anjou, father of Henry II of England.

Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders.

Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.

Elias II of Maine (died 1151)

His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Baldwin III of Jerusalem

Amalric I of Jerusalem

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_V_of_Anjou

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AKA: Fulk The Younger (or Le Jeune)

Birth: 1092 in of, , Anjou, France

Death: 10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, , Jerusalem

Burial: Church of Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, Jerusalem

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Count Fouiques - must have died during the Crusades.

Count of Anjou and King of Jerusalem. Fulk V is a lineal descendant of Pepin, the King of Lombardy and Italy. This Pepin was the son of Charlemagne (721-814), "Emperor of the West" and was the gr. grandson of Charles Martel (688-741). Some genealogists claim that the lineal ancestry is easily traceable from here to Julius Caesar, 1st of Caesar's who lived c300 B.C.

In the line between Caesar and Clovis stands the name of King Colius II of Britain whose name has been preserved in "Mother Goose Tales" as "Old King Cole".

Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's skull was crushed by the saddle. He was carried back to Acre, where he died and was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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The name Plantagenet, according to Rapin, came from when Fulk the Great being stung from remorse for some wicked action, in order to atone for it, went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was scourged before the Holy Sepulchre with broom twigs. Earlier authorities say it was because Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (Planta-genistae) in his helm.

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Also called Fulco Rex Ierosolimitanis.4 Foulques V "le Jeune", roi de Jérusalem also went by the name of Fulk "the Younger" of Anjou. He was born in 1092.3 He was the son of Foulques IV "le Rechin", comte d' Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort, comtessa d' Anjou.5,6,4 He installed as joint ruler of Anjou with his father following the death of his half-brother, Geoffrey, in 1106.5 9th Count of Anjou in France, between 1106 and 1129.5 He succeeded his father as sole count of Anjou on 14 April 1109.5 He aquired the countship of Maine by marriage to Ermengarde in 1110.5 He married Ermengarde de La Fleche, comtessa du Maine, daughter of Elié I, comte du Maine and Matilde de Château-du-Loire, in 1110; His 1st.5,7,6 Count of Maine, jure uxoris in France, between 11 July 1110 and 1129.5 He resigned Anjou and Maine to his eldest son, Geoffrey, in 1129.5 It had been left to King Louis VI to select a suitable husband from among the French nobility for Melisende, who was to be Baldwin II of Jerusalem's heir. The king chose Fulk V, Count of Anjou. Count of Tyre and Ptolmaïde in Outremer, between 1129 and 1143.5 He married Mélisende, reine de Jérusalem, daughter of Baudouin II "du Bourg", roi de Jérusalem and Malfia the Armenian, on 2 June 1129; His 2nd.8,9 King of Jerusalem in Outremer, between 21 August 1131 and November 1143.10,11 He was crowned King of Jerusalem on 14 September 1131.5 He died on 10 November 1143 in Jerusalem, Outremer, at age 51 years. Fulk was at the height of his power and popularity, well-respected and obeyed. On this November day, the king was out hunting when his horse stumbled and threw him. He struck his head, and three days later, King Fulk died. He was survived by his wife, Melisende, and two sons: Baldwin, aged thirteen, and Amalric, aged seven. Both would eventually be king, but right now their mother was regent. She had Baldwin crowned king and she ruled with him.3 Foulques V "le Jeune", roi de Jérusalem was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem.

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Fulk (1089/1092 in Angers – November 13, 1143 in Acre), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death. He was also the paternal grandfather of Henry II of England.

Contents [hide]

1 Count of Anjou

2 Crusader and King

3 Securing the borders

4 Death

5 Family

6 Sources

7 Historical Fiction

[edit] Count of Anjou

Fulk was born in Angers between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately twenty. In that year, he married Erembourg of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine.

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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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.

[edit] Crusader and King

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states (in shades of green) in 1135 CE, during the reign of Fulk.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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

[edit] Securing the borders

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

The death of Fulk, as depicted in MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C. Bib. Nat. Française.)

[edit] Death

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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 (see Siege of Edessa).

[edit] Family

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

Geoffrey V of Anjou

Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders

Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.

Elias II of Maine (died 1151)

His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Baldwin III of Jerusalem

Amalric I of Jerusalem

[edit] Sources

Orderic Vitalis

Robert of Torigny

William of Tyre

Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker, the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978

Payne, Robert. The Dream and the Tomb, 1984

The Damascus Chronicle of Crusades, trans. H.A.R. Gibb, 1932.

[edit] Historical Fiction

Judith Tarr, "Queen of Swords", A Forge Book, Published by Tom Doherty LLC., 1997

Preceded by

Fulk IV Count of Anjou

1106–1129 Succeeded by

Geoffrey V

Preceded by

William Rufus Count of Maine

1110–1126

Preceded by

Baldwin II King of Jerusalem

1131–1143

(with Melisende) Succeeded by

Melisende and Baldwin III

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Fulk (1089/1092 in Angers – 13 November 1143 in Acre), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death. He was also the paternal grandfather of Henry II of England.

Contents [hide]

1 Count of Anjou

2 Crusader and King

3 Securing the borders

4 Death

5 Family

6 Sources

7 Historical Fiction

[edit] Count of Anjou

Fulk was born in Angers between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately twenty. In that year, he married Erembourg of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine.

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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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.

[edit] Crusader and King

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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 2 June 1129. Later Baldwin II bolstered Melisende's position in the kingdom by making her sole guardian of her son by Fulk, Baldwin III, born in 1130.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states (in shades of green) in 1135 AD, during the reign of Fulk.Fulk and Melisende became joint rulers of Jerusalem in 1131 with Baldwin II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

[edit] Securing the borders

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

The death of Fulk, as depicted in MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C. Bib. Nat. Française.)[edit] Death

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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 (see Siege of Edessa).

[edit] Family

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

1.Geoffrey V of Anjou, father of Henry II of England.

2.Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders.

3.Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.

4.Elias II of Maine (died 1151)

His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

1.Baldwin III of Jerusalem

2.Amalric I of Jerusalem

[edit] Sources

Orderic Vitalis

Robert of Torigny

William of Tyre

Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker, the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978

Payne, Robert. The Dream and the Tomb, 1984

The Damascus Chronicle of Crusades, trans. H.A.R. Gibb, 1932.

[edit] Historical Fiction

Judith Tarr, "Queen of Swords", A Forge Book, Published by Tom Doherty LLC., 1997

Preceded by

Fulk IV Count of Anjou

1106 – 1129 Succeeded by

Geoffrey V

Preceded by

William Rufus Count of Maine

1110 – 1126

Preceded by

Baldwin II King of Jerusalem

1131 – 1143

With: Melisende of Jerusalem Succeeded by

Melisende and Baldwin III

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1092-1143. Count of Anjou (1109-29); king of Jerusalem (1131-43). Fulk married the only daughter of Elias, count of Maine, in 1109, thereby ultimately uniteing Anjou and Maine. In 1120 he went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In 1128 a delegation from Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, arrived in France, asking Louis VII to choose one of the French nobility to marry his daughter Melisande and become heir to the throne of Jerusalem. Fulk, by then a widower, was chosen. He married Melisande in 1129 and succeeded as king of Jerusalem in 1131. To defend the holy city from the Muslim champion, Zengi, Fulk allied with the emir of Damscus and the emperor of Constantinople during the early 1130s. Turkish raiders took him prisoner in 1137, but then freed him.

Source:

The Plantagenet Chronicles: 19, 37-9, 46-8, 60-1

Input by Mimi Arcala

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Fulk (in French: Foulque; 1089/1092 Angers - 13 November 1143 Acre), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou (as Fulk V) from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death. He was also the paternal grandfather of Henry II of England.

Contents [hide]

1 Count of Anjou

2 Crusader and King

3 Securing the borders

4 Death

5 Depictions

6 Family

7 Sources

8 Historical Fiction

[edit] Count of Anjou

Fulk was born in Angers between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately twenty. In that year, he married Erembourg of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine.

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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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.

[edit] Crusader and King

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 daughter's 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 Fulk's fortune and military exploits, acquiesced. Fulk abdicated his county seat of Anjou to his son Geoffrey and left for Jerusalem, where he married Melisende on 2 June 1129. Later Baldwin II bolstered Melisende's position in the kingdom by making her sole guardian of her son by Fulk, Baldwin III, born in 1130.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states (in shades of green) in 1135 AD, during the reign of Fulk.Fulk and Melisende became joint rulers of Jerusalem in 1131 with Baldwin II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

[edit] Securing the borders

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

The death of Fulk, as depicted in MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C. Bib. Nat. Française.)[edit] Death

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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.

[edit] Depictions

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 (see Siege of Edessa).

[edit] Family

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

1.Geoffrey V of Anjou, father of Henry II of England.

2.Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders.

3.Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.

4.Elias II of Maine (died 1151)

His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

1.Baldwin III of Jerusalem

2.Amalric I of Jerusalem

[edit] Sources

Orderic Vitalis

Robert of Torigny

William of Tyre

Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker, the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978

Payne, Robert. The Dream and the Tomb, 1984

The Damascus Chronicle of Crusades, trans. H.A.R. Gibb, 1932.

from wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_V_of_Anjou

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From http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps05/ps05_417.htm

Fulk V was "King of Jerusalem" as a Crusader. His wife was Ermenburge "of La Fleche" (aka Erembourg of Maine); after her death he married Melisande, eldest daughter of Baldwin II (King of Jerusalem, whom Fulk V succeeded as its third royal ruler) - this marriage occured in 1129. An eye--witness, Archbishop William of Tyre, described Fulk as "...a ruddy man, like David...faithful and gentle, affable and kind...a powerful prince...and very successful in ruling his own people...an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs."{-"The Plantagenet Chronicles," ed. by E. Hallam, p.38.}

References: [AR7],[Moncreiffe],[RFC],[Talbot1],[Paget1], [FarisPA],[Weis1],[PlantagenetA]

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Fulk of Jerusalem

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fulk V (1089/1092 – November 13, 1143), also known as Fulk the Younger, was Count of Anjou from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death.

Count of Anjou

Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's 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 Fulk's 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.

Crusader and King

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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

[edit]Securing the borders

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

Death

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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 (see Siege of Edessa).

[edit]Family

In 1110, Fulk married Ermengarde of Maine (died 1126), the daughter of Elias I of Maine. Their four children were:

Geoffrey of Anjou

Sibylla of Anjou (1112–1165, Bethlehem), married in 1123 William Clito (div. 1124), married in 1134 Thierry, Count of Flanders

Alice (or Isabella) (1107–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death in the White Ship she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault.

Elias II of Maine (died 1151)

His second wife was Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

Baldwin III of Jerusalem

Amalric I of Jerusalem

[edit]Sources

Orderic Vitalis

Robert of Torigny

William of Tyre

Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker, the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978

Payne, Robert. The Dream and the Tomb, 1984

The Damascus Chronicle of Crusades, trans. H.A.R. Gibb, 1932.

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BIOGRAPHY: b. 1092

d. November 1143, Acre, Palestine [now 'Akko, Israel]

byname FULK THE YOUNGER, French FOULQUES LE JEUNE, count of Anjou and Maine as Fulk V (1109-31) and king of Jerusalem (1131-43).

Son of Fulk IV the Surly and Bertrada of Montfort, he was married in 1109 to Arenburga of Maine. Fulk exerted his control over his vassals and was later caught up in dynastic quarrels between the French and English kings. In 1128 his son Geoffrey Plantagenet married Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, and became the progenitor of England's branch of the Angevin dynasty. Fulk first visited Palestine in 1120 and returned in 1129 to marry Melisend, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem.

Fulk became king of Jerusalem on Baldwin II's death in 1131 and spent the first year of his reign settling a dispute in Antioch (Turkey) and putting down a revolt led by his wife's lover, Hugh of Le Puiset. In 1137 he allied himself with the Byzantines against a Turkish leader, 'Imad ad-Din Zangi, of Mosul (Iraq), and in 1140 helped the Muslims of Damascus ward off Zangi's armies. He protected Jerusalem in the south by constructing a series of fortresses, including Krak of Moab.

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Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's 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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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.

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ALIA: Fulk V "le Jeune" /King of Jerusalem/

Birth: 1092 in Anjou, France

Death: 10 NOV 1143 in Plains of Acre, Palestine

_FA1: Acceded: 1109. Lord of the Angevin Lands: Anjou, Touraine, and Maine.

_FA2: Made the Angevin Lands a principality unsurpassed in France.

_FA3: The Angevin Lands had more resources than Normandy.

_FA4: Became King of Jerusalem 1131 on the death of his 2nd Father-in-Law.

_FA5: 9th Comte de Anjou. Buried at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Burial: St Sepulcre, Jeruselem, Palestine

Note:

The name Plantagenet, according to

Rapin, came from when Fulk the Great being stung from remorse for some wicked

action, in order to atone for it, went a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and was

scourged before the Holy Sepulchre with broom twigs. Earlier authorities say

it was because Geoffrey bore a branch of yellow broom (Planta-genistae) in

his helm.

became King of Jerusalem 1131 on the death of his 2nd Father-in-Law

Fulk

Pronounced As: fulk , 1092-1143, Latin king of Jerusalem (1131-43), count of Anjou (1109-29) as Fulk V, great-grandson of Fulk Nerra. He journeyed (1120) to the Holy Land as a pilgrim and returned there in 1129, making his son, Geoffrey

Plantagenet, count of Anjou as Geoffrey IV. Having taken as his new wife Melisende, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, he succeeded his father-in-law in 1131. Fulk's reign was disturbed by dissensions among the Latin princes and by the

raids of the Turks, whose prisoner he was for a time in 1137. He was succeeded as king of Jerusalem by his son by Melisende, Baldwin III.

FULK (1092-1143), king of Jerusalem, was the son of Fulk IV, count of Anjou, and his wife Bertrada (who ultimately deserted her husband and became the mistress of Philip I of France). As Fulk V, he became count of Anjou in 1109. Within his country he was active in asserting and recovering his powers over his vassals; outside it he played a part in the conflicts between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France, supporting each side in turn. But his ties with Henry became closer when his son Geoffrey Plantagenet married Henry's daughter Matilda. Already in 1120 Fulk had visited the Holy Land and become a close friend of the Templars. On his return he assigned to the order of the Templars an annual subsidy, while he also maintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year. In 1128 he was preparing to return to the east when he received an embassy from Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, who had no male heir to succeed him, offering his daughter Melisinda in marriage with the right of eventual succession to the kingdom. Fulk accepted the offer; and in 1129 he was married to Melisinda, receiving the towns of Acre and Tyre as her dower. In 1131 he became king of Jerusalem.

His reign was not marked by any considerable events. The kingdom, which had reached its zenith under Baldwin II, was quietly prosperous under Fulk's rule. In the beginning of his reign he had to act as regent of Antioch and to provide a husband, Raymund of Poitou, for the infant heiress Constance. But the great problem with which he had to deal was the progress of the atabeg Zengi of Mosul. In 1137 he was beaten near Barin and, escaping into the fort, was surrounded and forced to capitulate. A little later, however, he greatly improved his position by strengthening his alliance with the vizier of Damascus, who also feared the progress of Zengi (1140); and in this way he was able to capture the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias. Like his predecessors in Anjou, Fulk was a great builder of castles. In southern Palestine he constructed Ibelin, Blanche Garde and Gibelin as a means of checking the Mohammedan garrison of Askalon. Belvoir was founded to survey the Jordan valley south of the Sea of Galilee, while in Trans-Jordan, Kerak was fortified by a royal vassal. Twice in Fulk's reign the eastern emperor, John Comnenus, appeared in northern Syria (1137 and 1142); but his coming did not affect the king, who was able to decline politely a visit which the emperor proposed to make to Jerusalem.

Fulk died in 1143 leaving two sons who both became kings and reigned as Baldwin III and Amalric I.

Fulk continued the tradition of good statemanship and sound churchmanship which Baldwin I and Baldwin II had begun. Unfortunately he was unable to head a combined resistance to the rising power of Zengi of Mosul [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 9, p. 910, FULK]

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Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's 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 Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and became 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.

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In French, he was referred to as Foulques V, le Jeune. He was a Knight of the Third Crusade and crowned King of Jerusalem by right of his father.

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Fulk V of Anjou (1089/1092 – November 13, 1143), also known as Fulk the Young, and after 1131 as Fulk of Jerusalem, was Count of Anjou from 1109 to 1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. It lasted less than two hundred years, until 1291 when the last remaining outpost, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks.

At first the kingdom was little more than a loose collection of towns and cities captured during the crusade. Its first king, Godfrey of Bouillon, seems not to have called himself "king" at all; it was a subject of dispute whether Jerusalem would be a secular kingdom or theocratic state under papal authority. The secular faction was victorious, however, and the kingdom developed along the same lines as the monarchies of Western Europe, with which it had close connections, both politically and through the familial relationships of its rulers. It was, however, a relatively minor kingdom in comparison and often lacked financial and military support from Europe. The kingdom had closer ties to the neighbouring Kingdom of Armenia and the Byzantine Empire, which had an "orientalizing" influence on the western crusaders.

At its height, the Kingdom roughly encompassed the territory of modern Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip; it extended from modern Lebanon in the north to the Sinai Desert in the south, and into modern Jordan and Syria in the east. There were also attempts to expand the kingdom into Fatimid Egypt. Its kings also held a certain amount of authority over the other crusader states, Tripoli, Antioch, and Edessa.

Fulk was born between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France.

He became count of Anjou upon his father's 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 Fulk's 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.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states (in shades of green) in 1135 CE, during the reign of Fulk.

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 daughter's 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 Fulk's 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 Melisende's 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 II's 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. Melisende's 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.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own step-son accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon. This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem.

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's 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
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Fulko av Jerusalem, også kjent som Fulko den unge eller Fulko V av Anjou (navnet skrives også som Fulco, Foulques, Fulk), født mellom 1089 og 1092 i Anjou, død 1142 i Akko i Midtøsten, ble gjennom sitt ekteskap med Melisenda, datter til Balduin II av Jerusalem, konge av Jerusalem fra 1131 og til sin død. Av byrd ble han dessuten greve av Anjou fra 1109 til 1129.

Greve av Anjou
Fulko var født en gang mellom 1089 og 1092 som sønn av greve Fulko IV av Anjou og Bertrade de Montfort. Hans mor hadde rømt fra greven og gjort seg skyldig i bigami da hun giftet seg med Filip I av Frankrike.

Ved farens død i 1109 ble Fulko hans etterfølger som greve av Anjou da han var rundt tyve år gammel. Han giftet seg 1110 med Ermengarde av Maine, og paret fikk flere barn sammen. Etter å ha vært en forbundsfelle med kong Ludvig VI av Frankrike gikk han i 1127 i allianse med kong Henrik I av England da den engelske kongen arrangerte ekteskap mellom hans datter Maud av England (Matilda) og Fulkos sønn Geoffrey av Anjou. Fulko dro på korstog i 1120 og ble en nær venn av Tempelridderordenen. Etter at han kom tilbake begynte han å støtte ordenen økonomisk og drev to riddere i Det hellige land for et år.

Korsfarer og konge
Ved 1127 var Fulko forberedt på å reise tilbake til Anjou da han mottok en ambassadør fra kong Baldwin II av Jerusalem. Baldwin II hadde ingen mannlig arving, men hadde allerede utsett sin datter Melisende til å etterfølge seg. Baldwin II ønsket å trygge sin datters arv ved å gifte henne til en mektig herre. Fulko var en rik korsfarer og en erfaren militær kommandant, foruten også enkemann. Hans erfaring i krig skulle vise seg verdifullt for et land ved en utrygg grense som alltid lå på kanten av krig.

Imidlertid satte Fulko seg høyere mål enn kun være ektefelle for en dronning; han ønsket å bli konge ved Melisendes side. Baldwin II aksepterte etter å ha reflektert over Fulkos formue og militære bedrifter. Fulko abdiserte sitt sete i Anjou til sin sønn Geoffery og dro til Jerusalem hvor han giftet seg med Melisende den 2. juni 1129. Senere trygget Baldwin II ytterligere Melisendes posisjon i kongedømmet ved å gjøre henne til eneverge for hennes sønn med Fulko, Baldwin III som ble født i 1130.

I 1131 styrte Fulko og Melisende Jerusalem i fellesskap da Baldwin II døde. Fra begynnelsen tok Fulko total kontroll over styringen og ekskluderte Melisende fullstendig. Han favoriserte landsmenn fra Anjou framfor den innfødte adelen. Andre korsfarerstater i nord fryktet at Fulko ville forsøke tvinge Jerusalems overhøyhet på dem slik Baldwin II hadde gjort, men Fulko var langt mindre mektig enn hans avdøde svigerfar, og de nordlige statene avviste hans autoritet. Melisendes søster Alice av Antiokia som var blitt sendt i landsforvisning av Baldwin II tok kontroll over Antiokia på nytt etter hennes fars død. Hun allierte seg med Pons av Tripoli og Joscelin II av Edessa for å forhindre Fulko fra å marsjere nordover i 1132. Fulko og Pons utkjempet et kortvarig slag før en fredsavtale ble inngått og Alice ble utvist igjen.

Kongedømmet Jerusalem og andre korsfarerstater (grønne farger) i 1135 i løpet av regimet til Fulko.I Jerusalem opprørte Fulko av annengenerasjons kristne i Jerusalem som hadde vokst opp der siden det første korstoget. Disse innfødte fokuserte på Melisendes fetter, den populære Hugo eller Hugues II av Le Puiset, greve av Jaffa, som var hengiven lojal til dronningen. Fulko så på Hugues som en rival og det hjalp ikke at Hugues' egen stesønn anklaget Fulko for manglende lojalitet. I 1134, med den hensikt å avsløre Hugues, anklaget Fulko ham for utroskap med Melisende. Hugues gjorde opprør i protest og sikret seg i Jaffa og allierte seg med muslimene i Ashkelon. Han greide å beseire den hæren som ble sendt mot ham av Fulko, men situasjonen kunne ikke opprettholdes. Patriarken blandet seg inn i konflikten, kanskje på bud fra Melisende, og Fulko gikk med på fred. Hugues ble forvist fra kongedømmet for tre år, en mild dom.

Det var et forsøk på å snikmyrde Hugues, og det ble antatt av de fleste at Fulko eller hans støttespillere sto bak, men noe direkte bevis kom aldri til syne. Skandalen var alt som dronningens parti trengte for å ta over regjeringen i hva som kan karakteriseres som et palasskupp. Forfatteren og historikeren Bernard Hamilton skrev at Fulkos tilhengere ?gikk i redsel for deres liv? i palasset. Den samtidige forfatteren og historikeren Vilhelm av Tyr skrev nedsettende om Fulko at ?han forsøkte aldri å ta føringen, selv ved trivielle ting, uten (Melisendes) samtykke?. Resultatet var at Melisende tok direkte og ubestridt kontroll over regjeringen fra 1136 og framover, men en gang på den samme tiden må Fulko ha blitt forent med Melisende da en andre sønn, Amalrik, ble født.

Sikring av grensene
Jerusalems nordlige grense var av stor bekymring. Fulko hadde blitt utpekt som regent av fyrstedømmet Antiokia av Baldwin II og som regent fikk han Raymond de Poitiers til å gifte seg med den purunge Constance av Antiokia, datter av Bohemund II og Alice av Antiokia, og niese av Melisende. Den største bekyrmingen i løpet av Fulkos regime var uansett framgangen til den muslimske herskeren Zangi av Mosul (som selv var årsaken til det andre korstoget).

I 1137 ble Fulko beseiret i et slag i nærheten av Barin, men allierte seg med Mu'in ad-Din Unur, herskeren av Damaskus. Denne byen var også truet av Zengi. Fulko erobret festningen i Banias nord for Genesaretsjøen og sikret således den nordlige grensen.

Fulko styrket også kongedømmets sørlige grense. Hans undersått Paganus (også kalt Payen le Bouteiller) bygget festningen ved Karek sør for Dødehavet. Fulko hadde Blanche Garde, Ibelin og andre festninger bygget i sørvest for å utligne det egyptiske festningen i Ashkelon. Byen var en base for hvor de egyptiske fatimider sendte herjingstokter inn over kongedømmet Jerusalem. Fulko forsøkte å nøytralisere denne trusselen.

I 1137 og 1142 kom den bysantinske keiseren Johannes II Komnenos til Syria for å påtvinge bysantinsk overherredømme over korsfarerstatene. Keiseren ble ignorert av Fulko som avslo å møte ham i Jerusalem.

Død
I 1143 da kongen og dronningen var på feire i Akko ble Fulko drept i en jaktulykke. Hans hest snublet, falt og Fulkos hodeskalle ble klemt under salen, ?og hans hjerne strømmet ut fra både ørene og neseåpningene?, som Vilhelm av Tyr beskrev det.

Fulko ble ført tilbake til Akko hvor han lå bevisstløs i tre dager dør han døde. Han ble gravlagt i Den hellige gravs kirke i Jerusalem. Selv om deres ekteskap begynte med en konflikt skal Melisende ha sørget like mye over ham privat som offentlig. Fulko ble overlevd av sin sønn Geoffrey av Anjou ved sin føste hustru, og Baldwin III og Amalrik I ved Melisende.

Familie
I 1110 giftet Fulko seg med Ermengarde av Maine (død 1126), datter av Elias I av Maine. Deres fire barn var:

Geoffrey av Anjou
Sibylla av Anjou (1112-1165, Betlehem), gift i 1123 med William Clito (skilt i 1124), gift på nytt i 1134 med Thierry d'Alsace, greve av Flandern
Matilda av Anjou (også kjent som Alice eller Isabella) (1107-1154), gift med prins av England, William Adelin; etter hans død 17 år gammel i 1120 på skipsulykken Det hvite skip ble hun en nonne og senere abbedisse av Fontevrault.
Elias II av Maine (død 1151)
Hans andre hustru var Melisende, dronning av Jerusalem

Baldwin III av Jerusalem
Amalric I av Jerusalem

Litteratur
Orderic Vitalis
Robert av Torigni
Vilhelm av Tyr
Medieval Women, redigert av Derek Baker, the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978
Payne, Robert: The Dream and the Tomb, 1984
The Damascus Chronicle of Crusades, overs. H.A.R. Gibb, 1932.
Historisk fiksjon:

Judith Tarr, Queen of Swords, A Forge Book, Tom Doherty LLC., 1997
Hentet fra ?http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulko_av_Jerusalem?

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By name Fulk The Younger, French Foulques Le Jeune count of Anjou andMaine as Fulk V (1109/31) and king of Jerusalem (1131/43).
Son of Fulk IV the Surly and Bertrada of Montfort, he was married in1109 to Arenburga of Maine. Fulk exerted his control over his vassals andwas later caught up in dynastic quarrels between the French and Englishkings. In 1128 his son Geoffrey Plantagenet married Matilda, daughter ofHenry I of England, and became the progenitor of England's branch of theAngevin dynasty. Fulk first visited Palestine in 1120 and returned in1129 to marry Melisend, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem.
Fulk became king of Jerusalem on Baldwin II's death in 1131 and spentthe first year of his reign settling a dispute in Antioch (Turkey) andputting down a revolt led by his wife's lover, Hugh of Le Puiset. In 1137he allied himself with the Byzantines against a Turkish leader, ‘Imadad-Din Zangi, of Mosul (Iraq), and in 1140 helped the Muslims of Damascusward off Zangi's armies. He protected Jerusalem in the south byconstructing a series of fortresses, including Krak of Moab.

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Fulk also was King of Jerusalem 1131 on the death of his 2nd Father-in-Law.

Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of, medieval Christian state comprising what is now Israel, as well as parts of Jordan and Lebanon, with its capital at Jerusalem. Established at the time of the First Crusade in 1099, it lasted until 1291. When Jerusalem was taken from the Muslims, on July 15, 1099, it became necessary for the Christian conquerors to establish some permanent rule for the Holy City and for such other conquests as Antioch (now Antakya, Turkey) and Edessa (now Sanliurfa, Turkey). They adopted the feudal system of government, the only system they knew well. The French nobleman Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the leaders of the Crusade, was chosen to govern the kingdom as baron and defender of the Holy Sepulchre. The succession thereafter was not elective but hereditary. When Godfrey died, in 1100, he was succeeded by his brother, Baldwin I, who took the title of king and ruled until 1118. He in turn was succeeded by his cousin, Baldwin II, who was followed by his son-in-law, Fulk V the Young, count of Anjou. Under Fulk the kingdom reached the highest point in its development; most of Syria was then also in the hands of the Christians. In 1187 Muslim forces under Sultan Saladin reconquered the city of Jerusalem, but the Latin Kingdom persisted. The Crusaders regained the city in 1228 under Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, who was crowned king of Jerusalem the following year. The Muslims retook Jerusalem in 1244 in the first of a series of victories for Islam that finally, with the reconquest of 'Akko in 1291, brought the Latin Kingdom to an end. "Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Was Count of Anjou from 1109 to 1129
King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death.

Balduin ll hade bara tre men viljestarka döttrar och en dotter kunde inte leda tempelriddarna. Därför behövdes ett lämpligt gifte som kung. Melisinda föredrog framför maken en stilig herre från Jaffa, Hugues du Puiset. Hon ansåg maken vara den "korte, senige, rödhårige, medelålders man som hon av politiska skäl tvingats gifta sig med." Genom sin konflikt med maken på 1140-talet förde hon kungariket Jerusalem till randen av ett inbördeskrig.

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NAME Foulques V "le Jeune" Count Of /ANJOU/

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TITL [KING OF JERUSALEM]

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BURI PLAC Church Of Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, Israel

He was King of Jerusalem. He drowned.

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Ruled Anjou jointly with his Father in 1106; succeeding as sole Count 14 Apr 1109. Became Count of Maine by marriage 11 Jul 1110. He resigned Anjou and Maine to his eldest son and successor in 1129. He was appointed Count of Tyre and Ptolmaide in 1129 and King of Jerusalem 21 Aug 1131; being crowned 14 Sep 1131. He was accidentally killed in the plain of Acre and was succeeded in Anjou and Maine by Geoffrey. {Burke�s Peerage} [GADD.GED]

Fulk V the Younger of Anjou
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Fulk V, Count of Anjou, was born 1092, and was Count 1109-1142. Hemarried 1st Ermengarde, daughter of Helias, Count of Maine, and had byher his heir, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, Helias, who became Count of Maineor Mayenne, and two daughters, Sybilla and Matilda. He married 2ndMelesenda, daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, and became King ofJerusalem at the death of his father-in-law Sept. 4, 1131. Fulk V was sonof Bertrada de Montford, who eventually deserted her husband and becamethe mistress of Philip I of France. Fulk became Count of Anjou in 1109,and showed himself a doughty opponent to Henry I, King of England,against whom he continually supported Louis VI of France until, in 1127,Henry I won him over by betrothing his daughter Matilda to Fulk's sonGeoffrey Plantagenet. Already in 1120 Fulk V had visited the Holy Landand became a close friend of the Templars. On his return he assigned tothe Order of the Templars an annual subsidy, while he also maintained twoknights in the Holy Land for a year. In 1128 he was preparing to returnto the East when he received an embassy from Baldwin II, King ofJerusalem, who had no male heir to succeed him, offering his daughterMelisinda in marriage, with the right of eventual succession to thekingdom. Fulk accepted the offer, and in 1129 he came and marriedMelisinda, receiving the towns of Acre and Tyre as her dower. In 1131,when Baldwin died, he became King of Jerusalem. His reign is not markedby any considerable events; the kingdom which had reached its zenithunder Baldwin II, and did not begin to decline till the capture of Edessain the reign of Baldwin III, was quietly prosperous under his rule. Inthe beginning of his reign he had to act as Regent of Antioch, andprovide a husband, Raymond of Poitou, for the infant heiress Constance,daughter of Bohemund. (Her 2nd husband was Raymond of Chatillion). Twicein Fulk's reign the Eastern Emperor John Comnenus appeared in northernSyria, in 1137 and 1142, but his coming did not affect the King, who wasable to decline politely a visit which the Emperor proposed to make toJerusalem. In 1143 he died, leaving two sons by Melisande, who bothbecame Kings of Jerusalem, as Baldwin III and Almaric I. Fulk hadcontinued the tradition of good statesmanship and sound churchmanshipwhich Melisande's father and grandfather, Baldwin I and II had begun. Hisson by his first wife succeeded him as Count of Anjou.

Count Fulk V, resigned Anjou and Maine (the latter county acquired by his first marriage) to his eldest son Geoffrey and went off to the crusades. Here he married as his second wife Melesende, Queenof Jerusalem, an even greater heiress, becoming King in her right and dying at Acre in 1144.

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Geoffrey "Ferréol" du Perche
1000-± 1045

Ermangarde "Blanche" of Anjou
1018-1076

Simon L'Ainé de Montfort
± 1025-1087

Agnès d'Évreux
1030-1116

Fulk d'anjou
1043-1109

Bertrada de Montfort
1059-1117

Fulk of Anjou
1092-1143

1110

Ermengarde de Beaugency
1092-1126



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