The Close of the First Angevin Era
The Close of the First Angevin Era The century of preparation and transition was over; the great change was not to be undone again for eight hundred years.…
Note A: Sources and Authenticity of Early Angevin History
Note A: Sources and Authenticity of Early Angevin History The only detailed account of the early Angevins, down to Geoffrey Greygown, is contained in two books: the *Gesta Consulu…
第二章
CHAPTER II. examines several “unmanageable points” in the early Angevin narrative, including chronological reconstruction of Fulk the Red, problems with Ingelger’s supposed investitures, the bipartite county hypothesis, the unreliable testimony of Fulk Rechin, the spurious Cluny…
Unmanageable Points in the Story
The pedigree cannot be right. John confused Hugh the Great (whom he calls “Hugh of Burgundy”) as a son of the earlier Hugh of Burgundy, and made this earlier Hugh the father of Pe…
Chronology of Fulk the Red
M. E. Mabille established the chronology of Fulk the Red in his introduction to the Chroniques des Comtes d’Anjou and in “Les Invasions normandes dans la Loire” (*Bibl.…
Ingelger’s Investiture with Orléans and Gâtinais
Ingelger’s supposed investiture with Orléans and Gâtinais is doubly suspect. His championship of the slandered countess of Gâtinais is an untraceable literary commonplace; while s…
Ingelger’s Investiture with Anjou
Ingelger’s name does not appear in any known document of the period. The only rulers of the Angevin march are Hugh the Abbot and his successor Odo, until Fulk the Viscount.…
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