The Compilers’ Carte-blanche
The Compilers’ Carte-blanche The compilers of the Gesta simplify older claims by attributing to the king (effectively the duke) the granting of a blanket charter to Geoffrey, rele…
Map II: Gaul c. 1027
Map II: Gaul c. 1027 The map illustrates Gaul c. 1027, with three labeled features: Fulk the Black, Odo II, and the Royal Domain.…
第三章
Chapter III covers the period 987–1044 and examines the rivalry between the houses of Anjou and Blois, centered on the figure of Fulk the Black (Fulk Nerra).…
The Legend of the Count’s Wife
A count of Anjou is said to have married a woman of mysterious origin and unearthly beauty whose aversion to churches and refusal to attend the consecration of the Host aroused su…
Fulk the Black’s Character
The author suggests the legend may reflect the terror-struck imagination of the closing tenth century, when people expected the world’s end, attempting to explain the apparently s…
The Rivalry of Anjou and Blois
For more than a century after Hugh Capet, French history largely consisted of great feudatories contending for control of the crown.…
The Battle of Conquereux
Fulk’s first victory came before he was fourteen, when the death of Count Guerech of Nantes and his son Alan allowed Conan of Rennes to seize Nantes.…
Conflict with Odo II of Blois
Victory at Conquereux gave Fulk control of the entire Loire from his capital to the sea, though its richest upper stretch belonged to the count of Blois.…
第三章
During the ten years of turmoil following the death of Odo I and the remarriage of his widow, Fulk nearly completed a chain of fortresses stretching from Angers through Touraine up to Amboise—including Montreuil, Passavant, Maulévrier, Loudun, Mirebeau, Ste-Maure, the mighty kee…
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