Patrick Balfour family tree » Count Foulques I "Le Roux" Anjou Nantes Angers (Foulques I "Le Roux" Anjou, Nantes, Angers) d'Anjou (870-938)

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   Fulk d'anjou I, the Red<br>Birth names: Fulk I d'Anjou Count of AnjouFulk I Count of Anjou<br>Nick names: le RouxLe Roux"The Red"<br>Also known as: Foulques IFulk the Redcomte Foulques Le Roux d'AnjouFulk I the RedCount Foulques de Anjou Ifulk d'anjouFoulques d'Anjou IFoulques of AnjouRed FalconFoulques AnjouFoulques d39;Anjoufulk d'anjou I<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Circa 870 - Anjou, France<br>Christening: Anjou, France<br>Marriage: Spouse: Roscille de Loches , Comtesse d'Anjou - Mar 2 897 - Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France<br>Death: 938<br>Burial: 938 - Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France<br>Title of Nobility: Count of Anjou - 929<br>Parents: Ingelger d'Anjou Count of Anjou, Adelais d'Anjou (born of Amboise)<br>Wife: Roscille de Loches , Comtesse d'Anjou<br>Children: Guy d'Anjou, Fulk d'Anjou ii, Count of Anjou, Adele Vexin (born d'Anjou), Ingelger d'anjou<br>Brother: Aton I Seignuer de Preuilly<br>  Additional information: TitleOfNobility:Vicomte, d'Angers, 888, Vicomte de Tours, d'Anjou, 909, Comte,NobleFamily:House of IngelgerLifeSketch:Fulk I of Anjou (c. 870-942) Foulques le Roux (French, "Fulk the Red", i.e., "Red Falcon") held the county of Anjou first as Viscount, then Count, until his death.and Adelais of Amboise. He was the first count of Anjou ruling the county from c. 908 to 942. In 899 he became Viscount of Tours and in 905, Count of Tours. About 900-918 he was Count of Nantes. He increased his territory as a viscountcy of Angers and, around 929, he claimed the title count of Anjou. During his lordship, he was frequently at war with the Normans and the Bretons. He occupied the county of Nantes in 907, but abandoned it to the Bretons in 919. Fulk I died around 942.trois, & de la Haye, and his wife Tecandra.u.1×940. 1.es' father was Ingelger. "The name of Foulques's father is confirmed by a charter of 929, but nothing else is known about him." No facts are confirmed for his mother. There is legendary ancestry associated with both. Although the 929 charter mentioned above confirms that the father of Foulques was named Ingelger, contemporary records tell us nothing further about this Ingelger, or about other ancestors of Fulk. A history of the counts of Anjou compiled in the twelfth century, Gesta Consulum Andegavorum, purports to give an account of the ancestors of Foulques.....Another rescension of the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum claims to give more details about how Ingelger obtained his lands. It tells of an elder Ingelger who married Adèle, daughter and heiress of "consul" Geoffroy of Gâtinais, and who obtained Gâtinais as a result of this marriage. After the death of this elder Ingelger, his widow is falsely accused of adultery and murder by a certain Guntrannus, parens (i.e., relative) of her husband, and her godson, Ingelger, son of Torquatius (an obvious error for Tertullus), defends her by fighting Guntrannus in single combat, as a result of which the younger Ingelger receives her lands. This fanciful story illustrates the extent to which legend and romance has crept into the tale. count, finally as count, most scholars have rejected the legendary account of Foulques's ancestors in Gesta Consulum Andegavorum.f Angers, and of Adalard, bishop of Tours.86.ied after 929. "In the seventh year of king Raoul, Fulco (Foulques), his wife Roscilla, and his sons Widdo (Gui) and Fulco, gave a donation to Saint-Aubin d'Angers for the benefit of his soul and the souls of his father (genitor) Ingelgerius, his son Ingelgerius, his father-in-law Warnerius and the latter's wife Tescenda." t Gesta Consulum Andegavorum does correctly identify the parentage of Foulques's wife Roscille, and that bishops Regino and Adalard are known to have been brothers. «/b»rs with the title of viscount in a charter of viscount Hardrad of Tours on 29 September 898it became a county around 930. During his reign he was permanently at war with the Normans and the Bretons. it to the Bretons in 919. ance of Foulques as count of Nantes and viscount of Angers in a charter of count (later king) Robert, abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours, dated 31 March 914 and by the statement of the Chronicle of Nantes that Foulques ("Fulco Ruffus") had possessed Nantes.re 919.gers and Saint-Lézin in a charter of 929. he and his son both witnessed a charter. Baldwin notes "given his long career, he probably did not live long after 941. Place of Death unknown.ulk II.ishop of Soissons in 937 in succession to Abbo. Gui was still living in 966, as a charter of Geoffroy I (son of Foulques II) mentions Geoffroy's avunculus bishop Widdo.39;Anjou. Foulques II "le Bon", d. after 958, count of Anjou, after 941-after 958, m. Gerberge.y ancestry of Foulques, some sources provide him with an additional child: Supposed child (doubtful): Roscille, m. Alain Barbetorte, d. 952, count of Vannes, duke of Brittany....There is some confusion here "possibly related to the fact that Foulques II married the widow of Alain Barbetorte.èle, m. Gautier I, count of Valois, Vexin, and Amiens. Gautier I of Valois/Vexin/Amiens and his wife Adèle had children Gautier II, Gui (bishop of Soissons), Raoul, Geoffroy, and Foulques." Baldwin notes factors suggesting that Adele was in the family of the counts of Anjou, but "it is chronologically more probable that Adèle was a daughter of Foulques II, a relationship which would also more easily explain the appearance of the name Geoffroy among the sons of Gautier I and Adèle."0MAINE.htm#FoulquesIdied941'Anjou."

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   Foulques 1Er D'ANJOU<br>Birth: Between 870 and 885<br>Death: Between 923 and 942<br>Burial: her: Ingelger 1Er D'ANJOU<br>Mother: Adèle DE GÂTINAIS<br>Wife: Roscille Roscella DE LOCHES<br>Children: Adèle D'ANJOU, Guy D'ANJOU, Roscille D'ANJOU, Ingelger D'ANJOU, Foulques D'ANJOU<br>Brother: Rainald D'ANJOU

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