Fulk’s Charter Appearances
Fulk’s documentary trail begins in September 898, when “Fulco vicecomes” witnesses a charter of Ardradus, brother of Atto, viscount of Tours.…
The Bipartite County Question
The Gesta-writers acknowledge that “another count” (the former count, Duke Hugh) continued to rule beyond the Mayenne.…
Fulk Rechin’s Testimony
Fulk Rechin (Marchegay, Comtes, p. 374) does call Ingelger the first count, but his own admission that he knew nothing of his first five ancestors beyond their names weakens the…
The Cluny Treatise on S. Martin
The latter portion of Ingelger’s account in the Gesta (Marchegay, Comtes, pp. 47–62) is lifted bodily from the *Tractatus de reversione B.…
Ingelger’s Marriage to Ælendis
Diceto (Stubbs, i. 139) reports that Ingelger married Ælendis, niece of Archbishop Adaland and of Raino, bishop of Angers, and that the two prelates gave the young couple their he…
The Palace of the Counts at Angers
NOTE B. Local tradition long held that the counts and bishops of Angers had exchanged dwellings, and that the ruined hall in the castle enclosure was Roman work originally used as…
第二章
CHAPTER II. is a scholarly chapter composed of three extended critical notes (C, D, and E) examining the historical figure Geoffrey Greygown, count of Anjou.…
NOTE C. THE MARRIAGES OF GEOFFREY GREYGOWN
NOTE C. THE MARRIAGES OF GEOFFREY GREYGOWN. Geoffrey Greygown was twice married, both wives bearing the name Adela or Adelaide; the second was countess of Chalon-sur-Saône and wid…
NOTE D. THE BRETON AND POITEVIN WARS OF GEOFFREY GREYGOWN
NOTE D. THE BRETON AND POITEVIN WARS OF GEOFFREY GREYGOWN. The account of Geoffrey in the Gesta Consulum is largely fabulous, containing mythical fights with Danes and Saxons an…
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