General Notes

1  BIRT
2  DATE ABT. 980
2  PLAC Anjou France
2  SOUR S08295
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Feb 11, 2001


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Fulk_III "Nerra"
     Title: C of Anjou
     Sex: M
     Birth: 970/971 in ,,Anjou,France
     Death: 21 JUN 1040 in Metz,,,France
     Reference Number: 1258
     Note: Weis' "Ancestral Roots. . ." (118:21).
     Note:
          "Not all founders [of monasteries] were known for their
          kindness. Fulk
          of Anjou, plunderer, murderer, robber, and swearer of
          fale 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 during
          his life he went to Jerusalem as a devout pilgrim,
          treading half-naked
          the sorrowful road of the passion while two of his
          servants flogged him
          until the blood flowed, crying, "Lord, receive thy
          perjured Fulk!" "
          --- Richard Erdoes, *AD 1000: Living on the Brink of
          Apocalypse*,
          1988 (reprint 1995) p 12.
     Note:
          Nathaniel Taylor Posted to
          soc.genealogy.medieval on 8 Dec 1996:
          Subject: Re: FULK THE BLACK
          "Fulk is spoken of elsewhere with admiration. R. W.
          Southern, The
          Making of the Middle Ages, pp. 83-86, calls him (86) a
          'man of note' and a
          'pioneer in the art of feudal government,' particularly in
          the building and
          strategic use of stone castles. Bernard Bachrach's
          biography of Fulk is
          more openly admiring in an Ayn Rand sort of way. Fulk
          may not have been
          particularly sensitive, but a fitting progenitor for the
          likes of Henry II &
          Edward I."
     Father: Geoffrey_I
     Mother: Adela of_Troyes b: ABT 950
     Marriage 1 Elizabeth\Adela of_Vendome
     Children
       1. Adela of_Anjou
     Marriage 2 Hildegarde b: 964/974
          Married: AFT 1000 in ,,Anjou,France
     Children
       1. Ermengarde of_Anjou b: 1018 in ,,Anjou,France