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  Anjou (Traditional province, France)
Anjou main competitor was the county of Blois, which depended on the powerful county of Champagne but was almost totally annexated by Anjou.
The second and third houses of Anjou (1246-1480) bore from 1270 a semy of fleurs-de-lys (France ancient) with a bordure gules as the mark of cadency.
The flag of Anjou is common in the department of Maine-et-Loire, which corresponds more or less to the province of Anjou in 1789 (then much smaller than the county of Anjou in the XIIth century).
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  Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geoffrey V (August 24, 1113 – September 7, 1151), Count of Anjou and Maine, and later Duke of Normandy, called Le Bel ("The Fair") or "Geoffrey Plantagenet", was the father of King Henry II of England, and thus the forefather of the Plantagenet dynasty of English kings.
Geoffrey was the eldest son of Fulk, Count of Anjou and King-Consort of Jerusalem.
The marriage was meant to seal a peace between England/Normandy and Anjou.
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 Anjou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The latter having seized upon Nantes, of which the counts of Anjou held themselves to be suzerains, Fulk Nerra came and laid siege to it, routing Conan's army at the battle of Conquereuil (27th of June 992) and re-establishing Nantes under his own suzerainty.
On 16 December 1325, Charles died, leaving Anjou to his eldest son Philip of Valois, on whose recognition as king of France (Philip VI) on 1 April 1328, the countship of Anjou was again united to the crown.
Louis I, who became in time count of Provence and king of Naples, died in 1384, and was succeeded by his son Louis II, who devoted most of his energies to his kingdom of Naples, and left the administration of Anjou almost entirely in the hands of his wife, Yolande of Aragon.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Anjou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The title of count of Anjou was held by two distinct dynasties each known as Angevins (angevin is the adjective derived from Anjou): the first, known from the 12th century also as Plantagenets, came to rule England and much of western France, but lost Anjou itself to the French crown in 1206.
The title of count of Anjou was revived by king Louis IX in 1246 for his younger brother Charles, later king of Naples and Sicily.
Anjou is also the name of a town and a district in the Canadian province of Quebec.
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 Geoffrey 'Grisegonelle' Count Of Anjou & Adelais Of Troyes Countess Of Anjou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Geoffrey 'Grisegonelle' Count Of Anjou and Adelais Of Troyes Countess Of Anjou
Count Of Anjou From 960-987, Seneschal Of France
> Ermengard Of Anjou Duchess Of Brittany <
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 Summary of Foulques (Fulk) V "Le Jeune" , Count of Anjou/King of Jerusalem
Geoffroy I, Count of Anjou Geoffrey II, Count of Gastinois
Ermentrude, Couuntess of Macon Foulques IV, Count of Anjou
Hildegarde, Countess of Anjou Foulques (Fulk) V "Le Jeune", Count of Anjou/King of Jerusalem
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 Anjou (Traditional province, France)
Anjou main competitor was the county of Blois, which depended on the powerful county of Champagne but was almost totally annexated by Anjou.
He was count of Anjou, Maine and Provence (1246-1285), King of Sicily (1266-1282), King of Naples (1282-1285) after having been expelled from Sicily following the Sicilian Vespers, King of Albania (1272) and King of Jerusalem (1277).
The flag of Anjou is common in the department of Maine-et-Loire, which corresponds more or less to the province of Anjou in 1789 (then much smaller than the county of Anjou in the XIIth century).
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 Plant Family History Group - Counts of Anjou
The counts of Anjou rose from inauspicious beginnings as soldiers on the frontier between Brittany and Anjou where they were recruited by Charles the Bald (840-877) of France to help defend the West of his lands around Paris against incursions by Vikings.
The Chronicles of the Counts of Anjou, which was given its final form in the 1160s by John, a monk of Marmoutier Abbey, tells legendary tales of Fulk the Red's descendants, beginning with children of Ingelgar's grandson, Fulk the Good (941-960) under whom the region enjoyed a time of tranquil prosperity.
Geoffrey Martel I, count of Anjou (1040-1060), is described by the Chronicles of the Counts of Anjou as `bolder than all the rest of his family'.
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 reagenealogy - pafg38 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Foulques V, "Le Jeune", Count of Anjou was born in 1092.
Fulk IV The Rude of Anjou, Count of Anjou [Parents] was born on 14 Apr 1106.
Fulk V The Younger of Anjou, Count of Anjou died in 1143.
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 Fulk IV of Anjou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fulk IV of Anjou (1043–1109), also known as Fulk le Réchin, was count of Anjou from 1068 to 1109.
He was the younger son of Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinais (sometimes known as Alberic), and Ermengarde of Anjou, a daughter of Fulk the Black, count of Anjou, and sister of Geoffrey Martel, also count of Anjou.
In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers, though the authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed.
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 Anjou
Louis I. Duke of Anjou and count of Provence (1339-84) and titular king of Sicily and Jerusalem (1382-84).
Duke of Anjou and count of Maine and Provence (1384-1417) and titular king of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem.
Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482) Queen of England from 1445, wife of Henry VI of England.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Anjou
Plantagenet English dynasty descended from the counts of Anjou in France and rulers of England from 1154 to 1485, when the TUDOR line began.
(Charles of Anjou), 1227-85, king of Naples and Sicily (1266-85), count of Anjou and Provence, youngest brother of King Louis IX of France.
Descendants of a 10th-century count of Anjou (the source of the adjective Angevin).
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 Anjou (dynasties) - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Anjou (dynasties), series of royal dynasties descended from the medieval rulers of Anjou in northwestern France.
Plantagenet, surname, originally nickname, of the English royal house of Anjou or the Angevin dynasty, founded by Geoffrey IV, count of Anjou...
Charles I (of Hungary) (1288-1342), king of Hungary (1308-42), and founder of the Anjou, or Angevin, dynasty in Hungary.
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 Anjou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Comments: Anjou, to which Maine is appended, is a county western France, in the Loire Valley, between Brittany, on the west, and the Touraine, on the east.
By the 12th century, the Counts of Anjou were among the most powerful nobles in France, and under Geoffrey Plantagenet (so named from the use of a sprig of greenery he wore as a symbol), married into English royalty, while other prominent Angevins eventually acquired the thrones of Arles and Naples.
Becoming part of the dominion of the Kings of England when Henry II ascended his maternal grandfather's throne in 1154, over the next 50 years or so Anjou was gradually lost to France, and by the early fourteenth century the King of France was also the Count of Anjou.
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 Anjou tourism : historical landmarks
During the thirteenth century and the second House of Anjou (its greatest), princes wielded power in Provence and Italy and became kings of Sicily, Naples, Hungary and Poland where they exercised considerable influence and were part of the most important dynasty in medieval Europe.
In 1360 the province was elevated to a Duchy and the third House of Anjou was created and headed by the most respected, indeed loved, Duke of Anjou and titular King of Naples, René, known as King René who was born in Angers Castle in 1409.
The aftermath of the French Revolution was marked in Anjou by uprisings in Les Mauges that began in 1793, and were known as the wars of the Vendée.
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
Count Louis I was killed fighting for the French King Philip VI at the battle Crécy, the great victory of Edward III of England, in 1346.
Anjou was revived as a Duchy for Charles, the brother of King Louis IX of France, in 1246.
Count Gaston III marries the sister of King Charles the Bad of Navarre, but this relationship comes to naught when Gaston, the son of the Count and the only legitimate heir, is starved to death by his father.
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 Who's who   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ingelger I Count of Anjou Duke or Count of Anjou
Geoffroy I Count of Anjou Duke or Count of Anjou
Fulk III Count of Anjou Duke or Count of Anjou
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 Chronicle of the Counts of Anjou
Geoffrey count of Anjou, when he had heard the royal messenger who was summoning him to come to the king's Pentecost court, made his arrangements for the castle of Landonense, which was his, before the appointed day, and came to Orléans a few days before the Ascension.
The count withdrew unharmed, but the Dane, who had received a tremendous blow which had split his shield and breastplate, and whose lance was broken, withdrew the count's iron lodged in his left side and wounded the count's horse in its back leg.
When the count had heard this he rushed off to their aid, pretending he was going to the castle of Landonense, and rode night and day, changing horses often; he ordered those of his men whom he met on the way to follow him.
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 The Angevin Dynasties
Anjou is a historical and cultural region encompassing, today the western French département of Maine-et-Loire and coextensive with the former 'ancient' political province of Anjou.
Anjou was definitively ceded to France by the Treaty of Paris (1259).
Charles I of Anjou was overthrown in Sicily by the Argonese during a local uprising known as the 'Sicilian Vespers' in 1282.
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 35th Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Roger de Comminges I, Count of Carcassonne and Cousserans was born circa 935 in Carcassonne, Aude département, Languedoc-Roussillon région, France.
Judicael Berenger de Bayeux, Count of Rennes "Jubel" was born circa 910 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine département, Bretagne région, France.
Heribert de Kinzigau, Count of Kinzigau was born circa 910 or 914 in Kinzig, Hessen, Germany.
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 Medieval Castles in the Loire Valley
The most significant manufacturer of feudal castles is without question the Count of Anjou Fulk Nerra which held the County from 987 to 1040.
Fulk Nerra, Count d' Anjou, is the main builder of the feudal castle of Loches.
The Counts of Anjou entrusted this strong position of Montrichard to the Lords of Amboise.
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 Chronique des Comtes d'Anjou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Geoffrey count of Anjou, when he had heard the royal messenger who was summoning him to come to the king's Pentecost court, madehis arrangements for the castle of Landonense, which was his,before the appointed day, and came to Orléans a few daysbefore the Ascension.
The count withdrew unharmed, but the Dane, whohad received a tremendous blow which had split his shield andbreastplate, and whose lance was broken, withdrew the count'siron lodged in his left side and wounded the count's horse inits back leg.
Conan, count of Brittany, wanting to exceed the bounds of hisconsulate,[17] scorned Fulk and,trusting in the strength of his four sons, did not cease to ravagethe borders of Anjou.
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 counts of Anjou: French feudal coins
Loches was a property of the counts of Anjou dating back to the end of the 9th C. Fulk Nerra built the donjon at the start of the 11th C and successive holders built additional walls in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Fulk's point is that the counts of Anjou received the county from the Carolingians, not these ancestors of the Capetians.
ruled as count of Touraine in the middle of the 12th C. (This claim to Touraine was subsequently renounced by John Lackland in 1214.) As was not uncommon during this period, ecclesiastical centers often had minting privileges and this coin is an example of such.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Parents: Foulques I "le Roux" Count Of ANJOU and Roscille De LOCHES [Countess of AnjoF.
She was married to Foulques III "Le Noir" Count Of ANJOU in 1000 in France.
Parents: Guillaume III (I) Duke Of AQUITAINE COUNT OF POITIERS and Adele (Gerloc) Of NORMANDY [COUNTESS OF POITIERS].
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 Essential Norman Conquest - Encyclopedia
Geoffrey Martel became count of Anjou, the territory south of Normandy and Maine, in 1040 and, until he died in 1060, was a menace to William the Bastard's duchy.
Astride the lower Loire River, Anjou commanded the route from Paris to the Atlantic and the south-west and bordered Brittany to the north-west and Maine to the north.
In 1054 Henry, his brother Odo and probably Geoffrey of Anjou invaded Normandy by much the same route as Rommel took in 1940, pushing south of Neufchâtel-en-Bray and east of Rouen to lay waste the land.
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 My Family
Foulques I (Count of Anjou) died in 941.
Foulques IV (Count of Anjou) was born in 1043.
Foulques V (Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem) was born in 1092.
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 42nd Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Eberhard von Nordgau II, Count in the Nordgau and Hamalant "Wichman I" was born circa 802.
Count Roricon de Maine was born circa 790 in Maine, France.
Gebbhard von Swabia Count of Lower Lahngau was born circa 826 in Lahngau, Hessen-Nassau, Germany.
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 Fulk IV of Anjou
Fulk IV of Anjou (1043-1109), also known as Fulk le Réchin, was count of Anjou from 1068 to 1109.
He was the younger son of Geoffrey (sometimes known as Alberic), count of Gâtinais, and Ermengarde of Anjou, a daughter of Fulk Nera, count of Anjou, and sister of Geoffrey Martel, also count of Anjou.
When Geoffrey Martel died without direct heirs he left Anjou to his nephew Geoffrey IV of Anjou, Fulk le Réchin's older brother.
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 Abbey of Fontrevraud
He was given the ducal title to Aquitaine by his mother and assumed the titles of king of Engalnd, duke of Normandy, and count of Anjou [among others of the 'Angevin Empire'] in 1189 upon the death of his father, Henry II.
Geoffrey of Anjou was recognized as duke of Normandy by the French king in 1145.
Henry count of Anjou [this included the county of Maine], duke of Normandy, and with a claim to be duke of Aquitaine, launched in 1142 a military campaign in England to acquire the English crown.
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