Death of Fulk’s Wife
Fulk’s wife died in 1126. A characteristic story of her last illness, preserved in the Acta Pontificum Cenomanensium, suggests that whatever the political origins of their marri…
Fulk Accepts the Cross
Fulk could not accept the call to crusade without the consent of his overlord King Louis of France and of his own subjects.…
Family Farewell at Fontevraud
A secluded spot was chosen for the last family meeting. At the abbey of Fontevraud, founded decades earlier by the crusader Robert of Arbrissel in wooded country south-east of Sau…
Departure on Crusade
The author declines to follow Fulk across land and sea, noting that while his Angevin qualities of restless activity and indomitable perseverance shone perhaps brightest in his la…
Note A: The Houses of Anjou and Gâtinais
Note A investigates the obscure marriage of Geoffrey Martel’s sister to a count or viscount of Gâtinais (Châteaulandon).…
Note B: The Heir of Geoffrey Martel
Note B examines three competing accounts of Geoffrey Martel’s territorial bequest. Documentary evidence—particularly charters describing Geoffrey the Bearded as count of Anjou and…
Note C: The War of Saintonge
Note C reconstructs the war between Geoffrey the Bearded and the Aquitanian duke Guy-Geoffrey (William VII) over Saintonge, using the Chronicon Sancti Maxentii as the principal…
Note D: The Descendants of Herbert Wake-Dog
Note D addresses the tangled female genealogy of the house of Maine. While the male succession—Hugh I (David), Herbert I (Wake-dog), Hugh II, Herbert II—is clear, the relationship…
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