ANJOU, Fulk IV of
1043 - 1109 (66 years)
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Name ANJOU, Fulk IV of [1] Birth 1043 Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France 
[1] Gender Male Differentiator Fulk may have married as many as five times; there is some doubt regarding the exact number or how many he repudiated. Relation to Me 29 GGF Royalty & Nobility Between 1068 and 1109 Count of Anjou Name le Réchin The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "rude", "sullen", "surly" and "heroic". He was noted to be " a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits" by Orderic Vitalis. Death 14 Apr 1109 Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France [1] Person ID I2226 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father GEOFFREY, II d. Between 1043 and 1046 Relationship natural Mother ANJOU, Ermengarde d, b. 1018, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 18 Mar 1076, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 58 years) Relationship natural Family ID F1826 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MONTFORT, Bertrade of, b. 1059, Île-de-France, France d. 14 Feb 1117, Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 58 years) Children + 1. ANJOU, King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine Foulques V le Jeune Count of, b. 1092, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 10 Nov 1143, `Akko, Hazafon, Israel (Age 51 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F680 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Event Map 
Birth - 1043 - Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France 
Death - 14 Apr 1109 - Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France = Link to Google Earth
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Photos Fulko4Anjou
Documents 
Fulk IV, Count of Anjou - Wikipedia
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Notes - In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou." The authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed. Only the first part of the history, describing Fulk's ancestry, is still in existance. 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.
The younger brother of count Geoffroy III "le Barbu", Fulk rebelled against his brother and captured him in 1067, and then again in 1068, when he imprisoned his brother again (not releasing him until 1096), and assumed control of the Angevin possessions. He persuaded the French king Phillipe I to accept this arrangement by ceding his paternal heritage of Gâtinais to the king. His later years were troubled by rebellion from his elder son Geoffroy (IV) Martel, who predeceased him, and Fulk was succeeded by his second son Foulques V in 1109.
- In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou." The authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed. Only the first part of the history, describing Fulk's ancestry, is still in existance. 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.
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Sources - [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
Record for Foulques V "le Jeune" De Anjou, King of Jerusalem
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=2061563999&indiv=try
- [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.