The Character of the Angevin Rulers
The growth of Angevin power stemmed chiefly from the character of its rulers working in a sphere suited to their gifts.…
Angers in Fulk’s Time
When Fulk came to rule Angers around the time Æthelstan succeeded Eadward the Elder, the town was built of red flintstone and redder brick, materials later embedded in the bishop’…
The Political Position of Anjou
Fulk held Angers during a transition that would transform the West-Frankish kingdom into a kingdom of Parisian France.…
Fulk’s Marriage to Roscilla of Loches
To strengthen his position by peaceful means, Fulk emulated his father’s example of advantageous marriage.…
The Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte and Normandy
A few years before Fulk’s investiture, King Charles the Simple and Duke Hugh of Paris, unable to dislodge the pirate Hrolf the Ganger from his conquests at the mouth of the Seine,…
The Battle of Fleury and Ingelger’s Death
On Charles the Simple’s death and Rudolf of Burgundy’s accession, Norman hostility broke out in a raid sweeping past Orléans through the Gâtinais to the abbey of S.…
Guy, Bishop of Soissons
With Ingelger’s death, the succession fell to Fulk’s youngest son Fulk the Good, for the second son Guy was already in holy orders.…
The Death of Fulk the Red
A year after Hugh’s consecration, in the winter of 941 or early spring of 942, Fulk the Red died “in a good old age.…
第二章
Chapter II surveys the era of the second Count Fulk of Anjou, traditionally regarded as the golden age of the Marchland, and traces the reign through to his son Geoffrey Greygown. Beginning with Fulk’s peaceful and scholarly rule, his devotion to the church of S.…
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