The Pirate Occupation and Recovery of Angers
Robert the Brave fulfilled his trust gallantly until he fell in a Scandinavian ambush at Brissarthe in 866.…
Odo of Paris and the Deliverance from the Northmen
The long keels soon returned, and amid the gathering troubles of the Karolingian house cries for deliverance from the fury of the Northmen rose from the banks of the Seine and eve…
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Chapter II traces the emergence of the Angevin dynasty from the forest stronghold of Angers on the Breton border to the establishment of Fulk the Red as first hereditary count of Anjou, set against the broader transformation of the West-Frankish kingdom into a duchy of Parisian…
The Rise of the Parisian Dukes
Following Odo’s death in 898, Charles the Simple returned to the throne as a Karolingian, but the monarchy of Laon was gradually supplanted by the dukes of the French whose duchy…
Tortulf the Forester
In Robert the Brave’s day, a valiant forester named Tortulf dwelt in the gloomy forest-belt along the Breton border at the foot of hills sheltering the western side of the Mayenne…
Ingelger and the Acquisition of Amboise
Ingelger followed his father Tortulf’s footsteps and, through marriage to Ælendis, niece of the archbishop of Tours, acquired her lands at Amboise.…
Fulk the Red, First Count of Anjou
Ingelger’s ruddy son Fulk entered the service of Count Odo of Paris and remained faithful to that house.…
Anjou, Blois, and Maine Compared
Though territorially one of the smallest under-fiefs of the duchy, Fulk’s little Anjou ultimately overshadowed all other divisions.…
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