Fulk’s Peaceful Relations with the Count of Poitou
The only neighbour with whom Fulk seems to have maintained consistently peaceable relations was the count of Poitou.…
William the Great’s Death and Succession of William the Fat
William the Great died on January 31st, 1029, and was succeeded by a son of the same name, whose mother appears to have been a sister of Queen Constance.…
Geoffrey Martel’s War Against Aquitaine
Geoffrey Martel opened his war against Aquitaine in the autumn of 1033. An Angevin tradition attributes the conflict to a dispute over Saintes or Saintonge, but this explanation d…
Battle of S. Jouin-de-Marne and Capture of the Duke
On September 20th, Geoffrey met Duke William in a pitched battle near the abbey of S. Jouin-de-Marne, not far from Montcontour in Poitou.…
Imprisonment of the Duke of Aquitaine
For three years the duke of Aquitaine, the second great feudatory of the realm, was confined in a dungeon by the count of Vendôme.…
Terms of Release and Death of William the Fat
Geoffrey at last released William only after the whole district of Saintonge and several important towns were ceded to him and an annual tribute promised.…
第四章 below.
The chapter opens by tracing how Geoffrey Martel, having won great military renown at Montcontour, sought to extend Angevin influence over Aquitaine by marrying the widowed Countess Agnes, mother of the young heirs to Poitou, despite the scandal of their near kinship and the bit…
Geoffrey Martel’s Marriage to Agnes and the Aquitaine Crisis
Following the capture of William the Fat, Geoffrey Martel married the widowed Countess Agnes, William’s stepmother, in order to prevent the union of Poitou and Gascony and to gain…
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