The Memory of the Black Count
Beaulieu never forgot its debt to Fulk: for seven centuries the anniversary of his death was solemnly observed in the abbey, and so was that of his widow Hildegard, who as a bride…
Geoffrey Martel’s Reign and Early Conquests
Geoffrey Martel began his reign in circumstances very unlike those of his father half a century earlier: not only had Fulk wholly changed Anjou’s political position, but Geoffrey…
Geoffrey Martel Compared to His Father
Geoffrey was not the artificer of his own fortune: he owed his pre-eminence more to Fulk’s labors and a series of favorable accidents than to his own statesmanship, and his milita…
第三章
Chapter III traces Geoffrey Martel’s rise to independent power in the years before and immediately after Fulk Rechin’s death. It covers Geoffrey’s acquisition of Vendôme, his founding of the Holy Trinity Abbey, the resulting quarrel with his father over the abbotship, Fulk’s pea…
Geoffrey’s Acquisition of the County of Vendôme
Around 1030 or 1031, Geoffrey purchased the county of Vendôme from his half-sister Adela, the only child of Fulk Rechin’s first marriage and heiress of her maternal grandfather Co…
Founding of the Holy Trinity Abbey at Vendôme
Geoffrey’s first act as count of Vendôme was to found in the capital of his new dominions an abbey dedicated to the Holy Trinity.…
Dispute over the Abbotship
The appointment of an abbot for the newly founded Holy Trinity Abbey provoked an early quarrel between father and son.…
Tension Between Fulk and His Heir
The Reginald affair illustrates a growing tension between Fulk and his heir. Fulk, furious at being twice disappointed, expelled the Marmoutier monks from S.…
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