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 AllRefer.com - Fulk Nerra (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fulk Nerra[fulk nerA´] Pronunciation Key, 972–1040, count of Anjou (987–1040).
Continuously at war with his neighbors (Brittany, Blois, Touraine, Normandy), he vastly increased his lands, notably by seizing Saumur, and became a powerful lord in N France, meeting with scant resistance from the weakened kings.
Fulk Nerra built numerous castles on his borders and made several pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
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 Descent from Pharamond
Fulk V, however, became King of Jerusalem only as a result of marrying Melesende, the daughter of Baldwin, the second King of Jerusalem, who was a direct male descendant from the Merovingian kings deposed centuries earlier.
Melesende was Fulk V’s second wife; his first wife was the mother of Geoffrey Plantagenet, father of Henry II who married Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Fulk Rechin, Count of Anjou (also great great Grandson of Geoffrey Greygown, who in turn was the great grandson of Ingelgar, founder of the Angevin line)
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