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Fulco IV de Anjou, llamado el Pendenciero (en francés: Foulque IV d'Anjou, dit le Réchin ou le Querelleur) (Château-Landon, 1043-Angers, 14 de abril de 1109), fue conde de Anjou y conde de de Tours, del 1068, hasta su muerte.
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Fulco V de Anjou (1089/1092-13 de noviembre de 1143), también conocido como Fulco el Joven, y desde 1131 como Fulco I de Jerusalén, fue conde de Anjou de 1109 a 1129, y rey consorte de Jerusalén desde 1131 hasta su muerte.
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Fulk was the usual name of the medieval counts of Anjou. It is the English form of the same Germanic masculine given name latinized as Fulco in contemporary accounts and written Foulques in modern French. They are all cognate with the word folk ("people, kin"). Réchin, the epithet by which he is usually known, has no certain translation. Philologis...
Early life
Fulk, born in 1043, was the younger son of Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (sometimes known as Aubri), and Ermengarde of Anjou. Ermengarde was a daughter of Fulk the Black, an earlier count of Anjou, and the sister of Geoffrey Martelwho inherited Anjou upon his father's death.
Count of Anjou
Geoffrey Martel died without direct heirs, leaving Anjou to his nephew Geoffrey III, Fulk's older brother. Some sources declare that his rule was incompetent and Fulk contested the succession, capturing Geoffrey in 1067. Under pressure from the church, he released Geoffrey but the two brothers soon fell to fighting again. The next year Geoffrey was again imprisoned by Fulk, this time for good.Fulk then ruled Anjou from 1068 until his death. Substantial territory was lost to Angevin control du...
Wives
There are conflicting accounts of Fulk's life, including some who pointedly condemned him as "a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits".The clerics of his time particularly objected to his sexual promiscuity or deviance, which included marrying as many as five times, although the exact number of lawful wives, divorces, and repudiations is disputed. Providing all the claimed formal marriages, he was said to have first wed Hildegarde of Beaugency in 1067. Ermengarde of Anjou, thei...
A Latin history of Anjou and its rulers—surviving only in part and now known as A Partial History of Anjou (Fragmentum Historiae Andegavensis)—are said to have been written by Fulk in 1096, although both the authorship and authenticity of the work are disputed. The first part of the work describing Fulk's ancestry and some of his ancestor's deeds i...
Amid his other denunciations of Fulk, the English historian Orderic Vitalis blamed him for the invention of pigaches, the pointy-toed "scorpion-tail" shoes, which became fashionable in France and England around this time and later developed into the unwieldy elongated poulaines. Supposedly Fulk began wearing narrow shoes with lengthened toes as a w...
- 1068 – 14 April 1109
- House of Anjou
Fulk IV (Francés: Foulques IV d'Anjou; 1043 - 14 de abril de 1109), más conocido como Fulk le Réchin (latín: Fulco Rechin), fue el conde de Anjou desde alrededor de 1068 hasta su muerte.
10 de abr. de 2024 · Fulk IV (born 1043, Château Landon, Fr.—died April 14, 1109, Angers) was the count of Anjou (1068–1109). Geoffrey II Martel, son of Fulk III, pursued the policy of expansion begun by his father but left no sons as heirs. The countship went to his eldest nephew, Geoffrey III the Bearded.
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La primera Casa de Anjou se originó en el Condado de Anjou, al oeste de Francia. Se considera a Fulco III, el Negro, cuarto conde de Anjou ( Andegavensium comes ), como el fundador de la dinastía. La Casa se dividió en dos ramas: una reinó en Jerusalén y la principal en Inglaterra (Plantagenet).
Fulk (latín: Fulco, francés: Foulque o Foulques; c. 1089/1092 – 13 de noviembre de 1143), también conocido como Fulk el Joven, fue conde de Anjou (como Fulk V) de 1109 a 1129 y el rey de Jerusalén con su esposa desde 1131 hasta su muerte. Durante su reinado, el Reino de Jerusalén alcanzó su mayor extensión territorial.
