Foulques III "Nerra" de Anjou 
Foulques III "Nerra" was born in Anjou, France. Foulques III "Nerra"'s father was Geoffrey I of Anjou and his mother was Adele of Meaux. His paternal grandparents were Fulk II de Anjou and Gerberge du Maine; his maternal grandparents were Robert I of Troyes and Adelaide of Troyes. He had a brother and a sister, named Maurice and Gerberge. He died in Metz, while returning from Jerusalem.General Notes
Foulques Nerra was also sometimes given the epithet Jerosolimitanus because of his pilgrimages to Jerusalem [see, e.g., Halphen (1906), 212; Poupardin (1900), 207].
Foulques is mentioned in a charter of his mother in 967 [Cart. S.-Aubin 1: 7-10], and in a two charters of 1007×1026, Foulques named his father Goffredus, mother Adela, and son Goffredus [Cart. S.-Aubin 1: 10-13]. http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/fulk0003.htm
He had a violent nature and performed both cruelties and acts of penitence; he made four pilgrimages to the Holy Land. In probably his most notorious act, Fulk Nerra had his first wife (and cousin) Élisabeth de Vendôme burned to death at the stake in her wedding dress, after discovering her with a goatherd in December 999. Erdoes says of him: "Fulk of Anjou, plunderer, murderer, robber, and swearer of false oaths, a truly terrifying character of fiendish cruelty, founded not one but two large abbeys. This Fulk was filled with unbridled passion, a temper directed to extremes. Whenever he had the slightest difference with a neighbor he rushed upon his lands, ravaging, pillaging, raping, and killing; nothing could stop him, least of all the commandments of God." Wikipedia.org
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.BET 821 AND 823 in Rennes, Anjou, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 840 AND 845 in Anjou, France d.~ 0888
- b.BET 825 AND 828 in Rhineland, Prussia d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 870 AND 888 in Rennes, Ile-et-Vilain, France d.BET 938 AND 942
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 0844 d.UNKNOWN in falsely accused of adultery and murdered
- b.BET 904 AND 909 in France d.11 NOV 958 in Tours, France
- b.BET 844 AND 856 in Loches, Indre-et-Lr, Touraine, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.0880 in Loches, Indre-et-Lr, Touraine, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 0848 in Loches, Indre-et-Lr, Touraine, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 938 AND 940 in Anjou, France d.21 JUL 987 in Killed in action
- b.BET 815 AND 830 in Gatinais, Orleans, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 855 AND 860 in Orleans, Loiret, Orleans, France d.> 0886
- b.BET 845 AND 890 in Gatinais, France d.> 0942 in Gatinais, France
- b.0915 in Maine, France d.0952
- b.0860 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 890 AND 895 d.> 0942
- b.22 MAR 840/41 d.0886
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 845 AND 850 d.>Jun 0881
- b.21 JUN 987 in Anjou, France d.BET 22 MAY AND 21 JUN 1040 in Metz, while returning from Jerusalem
- b.BET 817 AND 818 in Vermandois, Normandy d.> 0850
- b.BET 840 AND 850 in Picardie, France d.BEF 6 NOV 907 in Murdered
- b.BET 812 AND 820 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.BET 857 AND 858 in Italy
- b.0884 in Picardie, France d.23 FEB 942/43 in St. Quintin
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- b.BET 840 AND 862 in Anjou, France d.0902
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 0910 d.BET 967 AND 968
- b.~ 0820 in France d.25 AUG 866 in Anjou, France
- b.AFT 15 SEP 866 in Neustria or Bourgogne, France d.15 JUN 923 in Killed in battle near Soissons, France
- b.BET 810 AND 819 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, France d.0866
- b.BET 887 AND 897 in Bretagne, Normandy d.AFT MAR 930/31 in France
- b.16 APR 778 in Casseuil-sur-Garonne, France (today's Gironde, France) d.20 JUN 840 in Ingelheim
- b.BET 866 AND 880 in Picardie, France d.< 0890
- b.0778 in Hesbaye, Liege, Belgium d.3 OCT 818 in Angers, France
- b.~ 0934 in Donzy, Troyes, France d.BET 982 AND 984 in Angers
- b.~ 0838 in Chaumois, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.BET 885 AND 893
- b.~ 0875 in Chalons-sur-Marne, Marne, Champagne, France d.< 0920 in Reulle-Vergy, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0840 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 0890 in Chalons-sur-Marne, Marne, Champagne, France d.8 APR 956
- b.BET 845 AND 850 d.19 FEB 886/87
- b.0870 in Vienne, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France d.21 APR 935 in Reulle-Vergy, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France
- b.BET 852 AND 859 in France d.BET 21 NOV 896 AND 897
- b.BET 914 AND 928 d.~ 0987
- b.~ 0822 in Metz d.0869 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.0880 in Burgundy, Ponthieu, France d.1 SEP 921 in Auxerre, France
- b.~ 0825 in Arles, Italy d.> 0860 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.BET 889 AND 893 d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 0825 in Auxerre d.0887
- b.~ 0865 in Burgundy, France d.0921 in Abbey of Romainmoutier, Burgundy
- b.BET 830 AND 840 in Alsace, Bas-Rhin, France d.UNKNOWN
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Foulques III "Nerra" and Elizabeth were married in a religious ceremony about 0989. They had a daughter named Adele.
Foulques III "Nerra" and Hildegarde of were married in a religious ceremony after 1000. They had a son and a daughter, named Geoffrey II "Martel" and Irmegard.
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Children
Geoffrey II "Martel" de Anjou
Geoffrey II "Martel" was born on October 14th, 1006. He died at the age of 54 on November 14th, 1060.
Irmegard De Anjou
Irmegard was born about 1018 in Anjou, France. She died in assassinated in Fleury-sur-Ouche, Normandy, France.
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