General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> The Black /Count/
Weis' Ancestral Roots, 118:21
Not all founders(of monasteries) were known for their kindness.  Fulk of
Anjou, plunderer, murderer, robber, and swearer of vile 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.  This
appalling man had countless crimes upon his conscience, but when seized
with a fit of remorse he abandoned himself to incredible penances.  Thus
the very tomb of St. Martin, whose monks he had ill-treated, saw him
prostrate, with bare feet and in penitent's dress; and four times he we
to Jerusalem as a devout pilgrim, treading half-naked the sorrowful road
of the passion while two of his servents flogged him until the glood
flowed, crying, "Lord receive thy perjured Fulk!""