JERUSALEM, Fulk V "The Younger" Count of Anjou King of

1092 - 1143  (51 years)

• Name	JERUSALEM, Fulk V "The Younger" Count of Anjou King of  [1, 2]
  Born	1092	Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Nov 1143	Yerushalayim, Israel   [1]
  	Age: 51
  Buried	Yerushalayim, Israel   [1]
  Person ID	I15025	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	DE TALLEBOIS DE GATINOLS, Foulques Fulke Count of Anjou,   b. 30 Apr 1043, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France ,   d. 14 Apr 1109, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France  (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	DE MONTFORT, QUEEN OF FRANCE, Lady Bertrade De Everaux,   b. May 1059, Montfort, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France ,   d. 14 Feb 1117, Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	DE LA FLECHE, Aremburga 'Ermengarde' Comtesse De Maine,   b. 3 Jul 1094, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France ,   d. 15 Jan 1126, Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France  (Age 31 years)
  Children	1. COUNT D'ANJOU, "THE FAIR" DUKE OF NORMANDY, Sir Geoffrey V "The Handsome Plantagenet",   b. 24 Aug 1113, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France ,   d. 7 Sep 1151, Château-du-Loir, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France  (Age 38 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F4076	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Count of Anjou[edit] Fulk was born at Angers, between 1089 and 1092, the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. In 1092, Bertrade deserted her husband and bigamously married King Philip I of France. He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109. In the next year, he married Erembourg of Maine, cementing Angevin control over the County of Maine. He was originally an opponent of King Henry I of England and a supporter of King Louis VI of France, but in 1118 or 1119 he had allied with Henry when Henry arranged for his son and heir William Adelin to marry Fulk's daughter Matilda. Fulk went on crusade in 1119 or 1120, and became attached to the Knights Templar. (Orderic Vitalis) He returned, late in 1121, after which he began to subsidize the Templars, maintaining two knights in the Holy Land for a year. Much later, Henry arranged for his daughter Matilda to marry Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou, which she did in 1127 or 1128. Crusader and King[edit] By 1127 Fulk was preparing to return to Anjou when he received an embassy from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Baldwin II had no male heirs but had already designated his daughter Melisende to succeed him. Baldwin II wanted to safeguard his daughter's inheritance by marrying her to a powerful lord. Fulk was a wealthy crusader and experienced military commander, and a widower. His experience in the field would prove invaluable in a frontier state always in the grip of war. However, Fulk held out for better terms than mere consort of the Queen; he wanted to be king alongside Melisende. Baldwin II, reflecting on Fulk's fortune and military exploits, acquiesced. Fulk abdicated his county seat of Anjou to his son Geoffrey and left for Jerusalem, where he married Melisende on 2 June 1129. Later Baldwin II bolstered Melisende's position in the kingdom by making her sole guardian of her son by Fulk, Baldwin III, born in 1130. Fulk and Melisende became joint rulers of Jerusalem in 1131 with Baldwin II's death. From the start Fulk assumed sole control of the government, excluding Melisende altogether. He favored fellow countrymen from Anjou to the native nobility. The other crusader states to the north feared that Fulk would attempt to impose the suzerainty of Jerusalem over them, as Baldwin II had done; but as Fulk was far less powerful than his deceased father-in-law, the northern states rejected his authority. Melisende's sister Alice of Antioch, exiled from the Principality by Baldwin II, took control of Antioch once more after the death of her father. She allied with Pons of Tripoli and Joscelin II of Edessa to prevent Fulk from marching north in 1132; Fulk and Pons fought a brief battle before peace was made and Alice was exiled again. In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own stepson accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence. However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

  
  

• Sources

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