The Ransom of Tours and Touraine
With very little bloodshed the Angevins gained over a thousand prisoners, the most valuable of whom was warded at Loches.…
The Second Stage of the House of Anjou
The acquisition of Tours closes the second stage in the career of the house of Anjou. Although in one sense only preliminary, this period was the most important of all, for on it…
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Chapter IV collects three supplementary notes attached to a larger historical study concerning Fulk Nerra and the early Angevin counts. The first note, “The Siege of Melun,” weighs conflicting accounts of a late-tenth-century military engagement, focusing especially on the dispu…
The Siege of Melun
Note A examines the Siege of Melun, an affair in which Odo seized the castle of Melun—valued both as a Seine crossing and because it had once belonged to his grandfather—and was b…
The Parents of Queen Constance
Note B addresses the parentage of Queen Constance, wife of Robert of France and mother of Hugh Magnus, who is variously described as a niece or cousin of Fulk Nerra.…
The Pilgrimages of Fulk Nerra
Note C tackles the number and dating of Fulk Nerra’s pilgrimages to Jerusalem, which have been variously reported as two, three, or four by different chroniclers and modern schola…
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This chapter presents scholarly analysis of two intertwined historical problems: the chronology of Fulk Nerra’s pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the contested marriage of his son Geoffrey Martel to Agnes of Burgundy.…
The Third Journey
The question of a “Third Journey” arises from the Gesta Consulum, which claims Fulk traveled to Jerusalem in company with Robert the Devil.…
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