Fulk III The Black of Anjou, Count of Anjou^[1]

Abt 970 - 1040  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Fulk III The Black of Anjou
  Suffix	Count of Anjou
  Birth	Abt 970
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	987
  Name	Fulco III d'Anjou
  _FSFTID	9CJ7-SBX
  _FSLINK	https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=9CJ7-SBX
  Death	21 Jun 1040
  Notes	Acceded: 987 «b»http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal03327«/b» «b»http://www.thepeerage.com/p11359.htm#i113581«/b» Fulco III d'Anjou, 5th Comte d'Anjou was the son of «u»Geoffrey I d'Anjou, 4th Comte d'Anjou «/u» and «u»Adelais de Vermandois «/u». He died on 22 May 1040. Fulco III d'Anjou, 5th Comte d'Anjou gained the title of «i»5th Comte d'Anjou.«sup»1«/i»«/sup» Fulco III d'Anjou, 5th Comte d'Anjou also went by the nick-name of Fulk 'the Black'. 1. Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, «i»Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition«/i» (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64. Hereinafter cited as «i»Lines of Succession«/i». «b»http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps05/ps05_425.htm «/b»Violent, charismatic and cruel, and a master of strategic castle-building; he boiled his first wife to death for being unfaithful. At the same time, he was one of the most dramatic figures of the 11th century; Fulk Nerra undertook the pilgrimage to Jerusalem an astonishing three times in an age when few made this difficult journey even once. He also visited Rome, and founded two abbeys: Beaulieu-les-Loches near Tours and St. Nicholas at Angers. Behind these extremes was a man of policy and purpose, revealed in the effectiveness of his campaigns and the strategic siting of his castles. Fascinating yet repellent, he was a leader of undoubted if crude ability. - "The Plantagenet Chronicles," edited by Elizabeth Hallam (N.Y.: Weidenfedl & Nicholson, 1986). For his pilgrimages, see "England Under the Angevin Kings," Kate Norgate (N.Y.: Haskel House, 1969), Vol. 1, pp. 192ff. Fulk III reigned as Count 987-1040. He was a ruthless warrior who burned and pillaged the monasteries in his path, Fulk nevertheless felt the need for penance, making three pilgrimages to the Holy Land and founding or restoring several abbeys, including those in or near Angers, Loches, and Saumur. He also built strongly fortified castles of stone (instead of wood) along the border of his territory. For this reason he was called le Grand Bãatisseur ("the Great Builder") was the Count of Anjou|| He was one of the most powerful of the early rulers of the Angevin dynasty.
  Person ID	I3844	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2015

  
  

  Father	Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou,   b. 11 Nov 938, Anjou, France d. 21 Jul 987 (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Adele of Meaux,   b. 950, Vermandois, Normandy, France d. 974 (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	2 Mar 979	France
  Family ID	F1104	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hildegarde,   b. Abt 964, Anjou, France d. 1 Apr 1046, Jerusalem (Age ~ 82 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1000
  Children	1. Geoffrey of Anjou Martel, Count of Anjou,   b. 14 Oct 1006   d. 14 Nov 1067 (Age 61 years)   2. Ermengard d'Anjou,   b. 1018   d. 18 Mar 1076, Fleury-Sur-Ouche (Age 58 years)
  Family ID	F1103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth de Vendôme,   b. 974   d. 1000 (Age 26 years)
  Children	1. Adelaide d'Anjou,   b. Abt 990   d. 1026 (Age ~ 36 years)
  Family ID	F551615278	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2009

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).