Fulk IV Anjou

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Although the medieval and twelfth century sources agree that the father of Fulk IV and Geoffroy III le Barbu was a count of Gâtinais, they disagree on their father's name, some claiming Aubry (Albericus) and others Geoffroy (Gaufridus, Gosfredus, etc.). Contemporary sources, however, clearly prove that their father's name was Geoffroy. Fulk IV names his parents as Gauffridus and Ermengardis in a donation of 1074×6. Additionally, The Historiæ Andegavensis, supposedly written by Fulk IV, names his parents as Goffridi and Ermengardis ["Ego Fulco Comes Andegavensis, qui filius fui Goffridi de Castro Landono & Ermengardis filiae Fulconis Comitis Andegavensis, & nepos Gofridi Martelli, qui fuit filius ejusdem avi mei Fulconis & frater matris meae, cum tenuissem Consulatum Andegavinum vifinti octo annis ..."]. The Saint-Aubin genealogies, evidently composed during the reign of Fulk IV, not only give the name of the father of Fulk IV and his brother Geoffroy III le Barbu, but provide the maternal ancestry of their father as Beatirx, daughter of Albericus, son of Letaldus ["Letaldus comes Vesconsiosis (et Umbertus comes Matisconiensis fratres fuerunt ...); ex Letaldo Albericus natus est; ex Alberico Beatrix; ex Beatrice Gosfridus comes de Castello Landonensi. Ex Gaufrido Gaufridus et Fulco presens."]. Geoffroy III le Barbu, in a charter of 1060×8 gave a donation for the soul of his uncle and predecessor Geoffroy and his father Geoffroy ["Ipsi vero constitutum habent pro isto beneficio annis singulis facere anniversarium patris mei Gaufridi quod est II kalendas maii, non minus diligenter quam abbatum suorum anniversaria"].

Fulk IV (1043\endash\endash 1109), called le Rééchin, was the Count of Anjou from 1068 until his death. The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "sullen", and "heroic". Biography He was the younger son of Geoffrey, Count of Gaatinais (sometimes known as Aubri), and Ermengarde of Anjou, a daughter of Fulk the Black, count of Anjou, and sister of Geoffrey Martel, also count of Anjou. When Geoffrey Martel died without direct heirs he left Anjou to his nephew Geoffrey III of Anjou, Fulk le Rééchin's older brother. Fulk fought with his brother, whose rule was deemed incompetent, and captured him in 1067. Under pressure from the Church he released Geoffrey. The two brothers soon fell to fighting again, and the next year Geoffrey was again imprisoned by Fulk, this time for good. Substantial territory was lost to Angevin control due to the difficulties resulting from Geoffrey's poor rule and the subsequent civil war. Saintonge was lost, and Fulk had to give the Gââtinais to Philip I of France to placate the king. Much of Fulk's rule was devoted to regaining control over the Angevin baronage, and to a complex struggle with Normandy for influence in Maine and Brittany. In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou", though the authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed. Only the first part of the history, describing Fulk's ancestry, is extant. The second part, supposedly describing Fulk's own rule, has not been recovered. If he did write it, it is one of the first medieval works of history written by a layman. Fulk may have married as many as five times; there is some doubt regarding two of the marriages. His first wife was Hildegarde of Baugency. After her death, before 1070, he married Ermengarde de Borbon and then possibly Orengarde de Chatellailon. Both these were repudiated (Ermengarde de Borbon in 1075 and Orengarde de Chatellailon in 1080), possibly on grounds of consanguinity. By 1080 he may have married Manite, daughter of Walter I of Brienne. This marriage also ended in divorce, in 1087. Finally, he married Bertrade de Montfort, who was apparently "abducted" by King Philip I of France in 1092. He had two sons. The eldest (a son of Ermengarde de Borbon), Geoffrey IV of Martel, ruled jointly with him for some time, but died in 1106. The younger (a son of Bertrade de Montfort) succeeded him as Fulk V. He also had a daughter by Hildegarde of Baugency, Ermengarde, who married firstly with William IX, count of Poitou and duke of Aquitaine and secondly with Alan IV, Duke of Brittany.
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  Begivenheder i hans liv:

1. Bopæl: Anjou , Isere, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Frankrig.

2. Beskæftigelse: "Rechin" 7th Count of Anjou "The Quarrelller", Conde de Anjou, 'THE SURLY', Count of Anjou, Count between 1068 & 1109.

Fulk blev gift med Bertrade Montford*, datter af Simon I de Montford* og Agnes de Evreaux*. (Bertrade Montford* blev født i Montfort Lamauri, Ile De France, , Frankrig og døde den 14 Feb. 1117 i Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud Frankrig.)