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_Aubri-Geoffrey II "Ferreol" GASTINOIS _+
| (1000 - 1046) m 1035
_Foulques IV "Rechin" D'ANJOU _|
| (1043 - 1109) m 1089 |
| |_Ermengarde D'ANJOU ____________________+
| (1018 - 1076) m 1035
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|--Foulques V "Le Jeune" D'ANJOU
| (1092 - 1143)
| _Simon I DE MONTFORT ___________________+
| | (1025 - 1087)
|_Bertrade DE MONTFORT _________|
(1059 - 1117) m 1089 |
|_Agnes D'EVREUX ________________________+
(1030 - ....)
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King of Jerusalem.
It is true that 'the father will not bear the iniquity of the son
nor the son of the father.' Thus it is that after the death of Fulk
Rechin, his son Fulk V, count of Anjou, abandoned the ways of his
mother and father and led an hoourable life, ruling his territory
wisely. He negotiated with Elias count of Maine in order to marry the
latter's only daughter, the girl whom Martel had been going to wed, and
with her hand to acquire the county of Maine. It was in this way that
the counties of Maine and Anjou were recognized as united.
Fulk V was an upright and vigorous man of orthodoz faith who was
benevolent towards the men of God. Having received both counties, he
raised his friends up, put down the wicked and, in short, achieved a
glorious and excellent reputation that was second to none. To Hugh of
Chaumont, who did him homage, he granted the whole of Amboise as had
done his brother Martel II, and he returned Montrichard which had been
unjustly seized by his ancestors.
Fulk besieged Preuilly but did not take it, though he did gain
control of Eschivard, a castle under the same lord with whom he then
made peace. He bouthg Montbazon from John, the lord of that town. But
when John forced his way back into the place after accepting part of
the money, Fulk laid siege to it very courageously and made him return
it. By handing over the money still promised, Fulk also obtained
control of the castle. He blockaded Montreuil-Bellay, but once he had
captured it and installed his own guards in the citadel, he was moved
by pity to return the rest to the lord of the castle.
Henry I, king of the English, attacked Fulk many times because he
hated the man. By giving money to the barons of Anjou and Maine, he
frequently created great discord among them and did serious harm to
Fulk.
King William, who had conquered England, divided his land between
his three sons: he gave England to William Rufus, Normandy to Robert,
and the maternal inheritance to Henry. When Rufus died, Henry seized
the crown of England while his brother Robert was tarrying in
Jerusalem. Returning from Jerusalem, Robert had a son called William
Clito by his wife.
Henry I, king of England, had a son William who married the
daughter of Count Fulk V and received the county of Maine with her.
After he had done homage to Fulk, William also received Noormandy from
Louis VI, king of France. In the summer of his seventeenth year, he
was returning to England when he was drowned at sea and with him many
nobles whose bodies were never recovered.
In the year of our Lord 1110, Fulk V had a son Geoffrey by his wife
the daughter of Count Elias of Maine. The boy grew into an outstanding
soldier and espoused Matilda, daughter of Henry I, King of the English
and widow of the German emperor Henry V. By the same wife, Fulk had
another son called Elias.
While Fulk was ruling Anjou, Touraine and the county of Maine in
prosperity, King Baldwin II of Jerusalem sent envoys who were to
consult prudent men and then to persuade a suitable man to wed his
daughter and accept the kingdom of Jerusalem. On the advice of King
Louis VI of France, the bishops and many distinguished men, they chose
Fulk V of Anjou, who had, by this time, lost his wife.
Crossing the sea with a large force, Fulk consummated his marriage
with the king's daughter and became king of Jerusalem in 1129.
After King Baldwin died, Fulk V ruled the kingdom manfully. He
made the inhabitants of Damascus and Ascalon pay tribute and long
before Raymond, brother of the count of Poitou, married the daughter of
Bohemond of Antioch, Fulk sustained the principality of Antioch against
the Turks with great effort, losing nothing. By his wife, he had two
sons, Baldwin and Amaury. He himself lived to a great age and died,
still combative. The men of Jerusalem made Baldwin king after him.
hronicles of the Counts of Anjou
n 1128 a delegation from Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, arrived in
France. The king had no son to succeed him as defender of the Holy
Sepulchre, only four daughters. His messenger requested Louis VII to
select from the French nobility a man suitable to marry Baldwin's
eldest daguther Melisande, and in due course to succeed as king of
Jerusalem.
Louis's choice was Fulk, count of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, who
accordingly travelled to the East to marry in 1129.
Jerusalem was on of four Christian states that had been established
in Syria some 30 years earlier, in the aftermath of the First Crusade,
a giant armed pilgrimage which had resembled a vast raid, since few of
the great concourse of princes, knights and humbler folk who made the
journey settled in the East.
In 1096 a multitude had answered Pope Urban's call to arms in
defence of Christianity. Yet although he had preached in Angers
itself, the rulers of the Angevins had been unmoved. Why, then, was
Fulk chosen to be king of Jerusalem, and why was he prepared to quit
the native land he had laboured hard to expand and consolidate?
In 1128 the count of Anjou was about 40 and had already made a
pilgrimage to Jerusalem. An eye-witness, Archbishop William of Tyre,
described him 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.' His main fault was an appallingly bad memory for
names and faces.
The offer of a crown was too good an opportunity for a mere count
to miss, and as Archibishop William indicated, Fulk possessed all the
qualifications required for the job. In addition, as a widower, he was
free to marry again, and could resign his lands confident that they
were in reliable hands; hi youthful but able son Geoffrey Plantagentet
was knighted and betrothed to Matilda, the daughter and heiress of
Henry I of England - in time he too stood to inherit a kingdom.
All in all 1128 was a good year for the house of Anjou and its
spectacular advance had been achieved by asture marriages rather than
by w
_Francois I DE VALOIS _+
| m 1514
_Henri II DE VALOIS __|
| (1519 - 1559) m 1533 |
| |_Claude DE VALOIS _____
| (1499 - 1524) m 1514
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|--Charles IX DE VALOIS
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|_Catherine DE MEDICI _|
(1519 - 1589) m 1533 |
|_______________________
_Henry PERCY ________+
| (1392 - 1455)
_Ralph PERCY ________|
| (1425 - 1464) |
| |_Eleanor DE NEVILLE _
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|--Peter PERCY
| (1447 - 1569)
| _____________________
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|_Catherine NEVILLE __|
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Was standard bearer for Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in
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_Leuvigild VISIGOTHS _______+
| (.... - 0572)
_Hermangild of VISIGOTHS _|
| (.... - 0585) |
| |_Theodosia _________________
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|--Merovech VISIGOTHS
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| _Sigebert I of Metz FRANKS _+
| | (0535 - 0579)
|_Ingund FRANKS ___________|
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|_Brunhild VISIGOTHS ________+
(0545 - 0613)