Wheeler/Ethridge/Zeller/Dunkin Family Tree » Ermengarde of Anjou (± 1066-1146)

Persoonlijke gegevens Ermengarde of Anjou 

• Zij is geboren rond 1066 in Duchy of Anjou.
• Zij is overleden op 1 juni 1146 in Jerusalem, israel.
• Alternatief: Zij is overleden in het jaar 1147.
• Een kind van Fulk IV of Anjou en Hildegarde of Beaugency

Gezin van Ermengarde of Anjou

Zij had een relatie met Alan IV of Brittany.

Kind(eren):

1. Conan III of Brittany  1095-1148 
2. Hawise of Brittany  ± 1100-> 1156 

Notities over Ermengarde of Anjou

Ermengarde of Anjou (ca. 1068 – 1 June 1146) was a member of the comital House of Anjou and by her two marriages was successively Duchess of Aquitaine and Brittany. Also, she was a patron of Fontevraud Abbey.

Early years

Born in Angers, she was the eldest child of Count Fulk IV of Anjou but the only one born by his first wife, Hildegarde of Beaugency. Having lost her mother in 1070, at only two years of age, she received a good education and grew to be pious and concerned about religious reform, especially the struggle against the secular appropriation of church property. She was also noted for her beauty in her youth.

Duchess of Aquitaine

In 1089, her marriage was arranged to the young Duke and poet, William IX of Aquitaine. However, this union proved a dismal failure. Her husband was a voracious philanderer, whose affairs infuriated his wife. She suffered from severe mood swings, vacillating between vivacity and sullenness, and would nag her husband. She also had a habit of retiring in bad temper to a cloister after an argument, cutting off all contact with the outside world, before suddenly making a reappearance in the court as if her absence had never occurred. Such behavior, coupled with her failure to conceive a child, led William to send her back to her father and have the marriage dissolved in 1091.

Her behavior during her marriage to the Duke has been described by both Marion Meade and Alison Weir as schizophrenic, with Weir adding a suggestion of manic depression.

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