ANJOU, Fulk III of

970 - 1040  (70 years)

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• Name	ANJOU, Fulk III of  [1]
  Birth	970
  Gender	Male
  Relation to Me	31 GGF
  Royalty & Nobility	Count of Anjou
  Name	The Black
  Death	1040
  Person ID	I7345	My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	GEOFFREY, I,   b. 938   d. 21 Jul 987 (Age 49 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	MEAUX, Adele of,   b. 934   d. 982 (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Mar	Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
  Family ID	F1828	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Living
  Children	+ 1. ANJOU, Ermengarde d,   b. 1018, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France d. 18 Mar 1076, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1827	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

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  Fulk III, Count of Anjou - Wikipedia

  
  

• Notes

  Celebrated as one of the first great builders of medieval castles. He constructed an estimated 100 of them, along with abbeys, across the Loire Valley in what is now France. He fought successive wars with neighbors in Brittany, Blois, Poitou and Aquitaine and traveled four times to Jerusalem on pilgrimage during the course of his life. Fulk was a natural horseman and a fearsome warrior, with a keen sense of military strategy that saw him get the better of most of his opponents. Fulk was also a devout Christian, and built, enlarged or endowed several abbeys and monasteries, such as the Abbey of Beaulieu-les-Loches, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Saint-Aubin, and a convent, Notre Dame de la Charité at Ronceray in Angers. Although he never learned to write, he endowed a school with revenue to provide poor students with an education. Fulk also undertook four pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

  
  

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  [S1801] Wikipedia, Record of Fulk III, Count of Anjou. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_III,_Count_of_Anjou Fulk III, Count of Anjou - Wikipedia