Anthony Annable

From the Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families:

Biography of Anthony Annable: he was born in Kent County, England, in the year 1599. He is reported to have been the son of John Annable of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk County, England, whose paternal ancestor, William Annable of Dunstable, first used the Annable arms in 1396. He was likely born into a middle or lower middle class family, and as such would have received only a superficial education. In his later years in Plymouth, Scituate and Barnstable, he was never addressed as "Master" or "Mister", prefixes reserved for the upper class. He was occasionally referred to as "Goodman Annable", denoting one of a somewhat humble postion in the community. It is even thought that he could not sign his name. Any such defieciency in education was remedied in later years, as he became one of the leading lawmakers in Scituate, and his signature appears on countless deeds.

Anthony Annable came to America in 1623 with his wife, Jane or Joan Momford, and daughter Sarah, on the ship Anne, the third of the Pilgrim ships. They lived first in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, but removed to Scituate, Plymouth, MA, in 1633. The settlers there were mostly from Kent County, England, and were called the "Men of Kent." As Pilgrim developments sprang up north of Plymouth, there was more demand for the food that was being produced at Plymouth. The colonists began looking elsewhere for land to produce crops. One such site was Scituate. And in 1633, the more liberal outpost of Scituate was established by Anthony Annable and and other Kentishmen. Anthony Annable was chosen constable for the ward of Scituate at a meeting of the Plymouth General Court, Jan. 1, 1633. The village at the harbor was laid out in 1633, the principal avenue extending southerly from a point near Satuit brook and was called Kent Street. It was intersected by a street at right angles near Satuit brook and by another street further south called Meeting-house Lane. Lots were laid out on Kent Street. Only four acres, eight rods front and extending back "80 rods up into the woodes," were allowed to each person, the object being to form a compact settlement for mutual defense. The second lot north from the Meeting-house Lane was assigned to Anthony Annable. He also had land Ewell at Green harbor which was on Kent Street extending southeasterly. He probably lived on the Green harbor property when his eighteen-year-old daughter was married to Henry Ewell. On Sep. 18, 1634, the Reverend John Lothrop, and some thirty of his congregation from Egerton in Kent County, England, arrived in Boston on the ship Griffin and settled in Scituate. Scituate became a compact little settlement of twenty-seven householders. On Jan. 8, 1635, Anthony Annable headed a group which organized and built the first church at the corner of Kent Street and Meeting House Lane. The town of Scituate was incorporated on Oct. 4-5, 1636. Rev. Lothrop was not without controversy. He had, in his past stormy career, serve two years in prison in London, over religious issues. This time, in Scituate, the trouble brewed over the question of whether baptism should be by total immersion or the mere laying of hands, as was Rev. Lothrop's belief. The issue was so contentuous that it resulted in a split of the parishioners. The exodus to a new place, Barnstable, Plymouth, MA, on Cape Cod, must have been difficult for Anthony Annable and his family. They had been an important part of the evolution of Scituate from a pioneer settlement to a town of comfort. It was a community of superior individuals. Anthony remained in Barnstable the rest of his life and served the town in many capacities. It was here that Jane died, Dec. 13, 1643. Here too he married second, Ann Clark on Mar. 3, 1645. From 1643 to 1658 he represented Barnstable in the General Court at Plymouth, and continued to be involved in public affairs and to occupy a position of trust. He opposed, along with Rev. Lothrop, the harsh measures and cruel laws enacted and enforced against the Quakers and Anti-Baptists in the Massachusetts Colony. These laws were never enforced in Barnstable by its representatives on the General Court. The colonists of Barnstable followed the doctrine taught by Rev. Lothrop, who accepted all who professed faith in God and promised to keep the Ten Commandments.

Anthony Annable died at Barnstable, in 1674, aged 75 years, and his remains are reported to have been interred in an unmarked grave in what was then and still is known as the Cow Pasture in that town. His second wife, Ann, administered his quite sizeable estate and was still living in 1686. In 1678, she was referred to locally as "the aged Widow Annibal", one of the first of many corruptions of the family name. A recreation of the Pilgrim Village of 1627 exists at the Plimoth Plantation on Route 3A in Plymouth, MA. The house of Anthony Annable is one of the dozen-or-so homes built to replicate the village as it was in 1627. A web site about the home can be found at www.plimoth.org/Museum/Pilgrim_Village/annable.htm. In the town of Falmouth, MA, not far from Barnstable, the names of Anthony Annable and Jonathan Hatch, father-in-law of Anthony's daughter Susanna, appear on a bronze tablet erected in 1930 to commemorate the names of the thirteen founders of "Succanessett" in 1661, the Indian name for the area.


Foulques I

The first count of Anjou from 898 to 941. He increased the territory of the viscounty of Angers and it became a county around 930. During his reign he was permanently at war with the Normans and the Bretons. He occupied the county of Nantes in 907, but abandoned it to the Bretons in 919. He died around 941 and was succeeded by his son Fulk II.


Foulques II

His son, Bouchard IV Comte de Vendome and Elizabeth Vendome had daughter Elizabeth who married Foulques III, grandson of Foulques II through Geoffrey.

Bouchard was boiled to death Dec 999. Yucko!! Why???? Their daughter Elizabeth married her cousin, who burnt her up at the stake in her wedding gown after finding her with a goatherd.. OMG.

Fulk II of Anjou (died November 11, 958), son of Fulk the Red, was count of Anjou from 941 to 958. He was often at war with the Bretons. He seems to have been a man of culture, a poet and an artist. In 958 he was succeeded by Geoffrey Greymantle.

Fulk II died at Tours. By his spouse, Gerberge of Maine, daughter of Hervé Count of Maine, he had several children:

Adelais of Anjou, married Stephen I de Gevaudan

Arsinde of Anjou, married William III Tailliefer, Count of Toulouse

Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou, married Adelaide of Vermandois

Blanche of Anjou, married William II, Count of Provence

Bouchard IV, Count of Vendome, married Elizabeth of Vendome; their daughter, Elizabeth married her cousin, Geoffrey I's son, Fulk the Black, only to be burnt at the stake by her husband in her wedding dress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_II_of_Anjou


Foulques V

He became count of Anjou upon his father's death in 1109, at the age of approximately 20. He was originally an opponent of King Henry I of England and a supporter of King Louis VI of France, but in 1127 he allied with Henry when Henry arranged for his daughter Matilda to marry Fulk's son Geoffrey of Anjou. Fulk went on crusade in 1120, and become a close friend of the Knights Templar. After his return he began to subsidize the Templars, and maintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year.

By 1127 Fulk was preparing to return to Anjou when he received an embassy from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Baldwin II had no male heirs but had already designated his daughter Melisende to succeed him. Baldwin II wanted to safeguard his daughter's inheritance by marrying her to a powerful lord. Fulk was a wealthy crusader and experienced military commander, and a widower. His experience in the field would prove invaluable in a frontier state always in the grip of war.

However, Fulk held out for better terms then mere consort of the Queen; he wanted to be king alongside Melisende. Baldwin II, reflecting on Fulk's fortune and military exploits, acquiesced. Fulk abdicated his county seat of Anjou to his son Geoffery and left for Jerusalem, where he married Melisende on June 2, 1129. Later Balwin II bolstered Melisende's position in the kingdom by making her sole guardian of her son by Fulk, Baldwin III, born in 1130.

Fulk and Melisende became joint rulers of Jerusalem in 1131 with Baldwin II's death. From the start Fulk assumed sole control of the government, excluding Melisende altogether. He favored fellow countrymen from Anjou to the native nobility. The other crusader states to the north feared that Fulk would attempt to impose the suzerainty of Jerusalem over them, as Baldwin II had done; but as Fulk was far less powerful than his deceased father-in-law, the northern states rejected his authority. Melisende's sister Alice of Antioch, exiled from the Principality by Baldwin II, took control of Antioch once more after the death of her father. She allied with Pons of Tripoli and Joscelin II of Edessa to prevent Fulk from marching north in 1132; Fulk and Pons fought a brief battle before peace was made and Alice was exiled again.

In Jerusalem as well, Fulk was resented by the second generation of Jerusalem Christians who had grown up there since the First Crusade. These "natives" focused on Melisende's cousin, the popular Hugh II of Le Puiset, count of Jaffa, who was devotedly loyal to the Queen. Fulk saw Hugh as a rival, and it did not help matters when Hugh's own step-son accused him of disloyalty. In 1134, in order to expose Hugh, Fulk accused him of infidelity with Melisende. Hugh rebelled in protest. Hugh secured himself to Jaffa, and allied himself with the Muslims of Ascalon. He was able to defeat the army set against him by Fulk, but this situation could not hold. The Patriarch interceded in the conflict, perhaps at the behest of Melisende. Fulk agreed to peace and Hugh was exiled from the kingdom for three years, a lenient sentence.

However, an assassination attempt was made against Hugh. Fulk, or his supporters, were commonly believed responsible, though direct proof never surfaced. The scandal was all that was needed for the queen's party to take over the government in what amounted to a palace coup. Author and historian Bernard Hamilton wrote that the Fulk's supporters "went in terror of their lives" in the palace. Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk "he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without (Melisende's) consent". The result was that Melisende held direct and unquestioned control over the government from 1136 onwards. Sometime before 1136 Fulk reconciled with his wife, and a second son, Amalric was born.

Jerusalem's northern border was of great concern. Fulk had been appointed regent of the Principality of Antioch by Baldwin II. As regent he had Raymund of Poitou marry the infant Constance of Antioch, daughter of Bohemund II and Alice of Antioch, and niece to Melisende. However, the greatest concern during Fulk's reign was the rise of Atabeg Zengi of Mosul.

In 1137 Fulk was defeated in battle near Barin but allied with Mu'in ad-Din Unur, the vizier of Damascus. Damascus was also threatened by Zengi. Fulk captured the fort of Banias, to the north of Lake Tiberias and thus secured the northern frontier.

Fulk also strengthened the kingdom's southern border. His butler Paganus built the fortress of Kerak to the south of the Dead Sea, and to help give the kingdom access to the Red Sea, Fulk had Blanche Garde, Ibelin, and other forts built in the south-west to overpower the Egyptian fortress at Ascalon.

In 1137 and 1142, Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus arrived in Syria attempting to impose Byzantine control over the crusader states. John's arrival was ignored by Fulk, who declined an invitation to meet the emperor in Jerusalem

In 1143, while the king and queen were on holiday in Acre, Fulk was killed in a hunting accident. His horse stumbled, fell, and Fulk's skull was crushed by the saddle. He was carried back to Acre, where he died and was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Though their marriage started in conflict, Melisende mourned for him privately as well as publicly. Fulk was survived by his son Geoffrey of Anjou by his first wife, and Baldwin III and Amalric I by Melisende.

According to William of Tyre, Fulk was "a ruddy man, like David... faithful and gentle, affable and kind... an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs." His chief fault was an inability to remember names and faces.

William of Tyre described Fulk as a capable soldier and able politician, but observed that Fulk did not adequately attend to the defense of the crusader states to the north. Ibn al-Qalanisi (who calls him al-Kund Anjur, an Arabic rendering of "Count of Anjou") says that "he was not sound in his judgment nor was he successful in his administration." The Zengids continued their march on the crusader states, culminating in the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144, which led to the Second Crusade.


Fulk III

Fulk III (972–1040), called Nerra (that is, le Noir, "the Black") after his death, was count of Anjou from 987 to 1040. He was the son of Geoffrey Greymantle and Adelaide of Vermandois.

He was the founder of the Angevin dynasty. 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."

He fought against the claims of the counts of Rennes, defeating and killing Conan I of Rennes at the Battle of Conquereuil in 992. He then extended his power over the County of Maine and the Touraine. All of his enterprises came up against the no less violent ambition of the Odo II of Blois, against whom he made an alliance with the Capetians. In 1025, after capturing and burning the city of Saumur, Fulk reportedly cried, "Saint Florentius, let yourself be burned. I will build you a better home in Angers." But when the transportation of the saint's relics to Angers proved difficult, Fulk declared that Florentius was a rustic lout unfit for the city, and sent the relics back to Saumur.

Fulk also commissioned many buildings. From 987 to 1040, while he was count of Anjou and fighting against the Bretons and Blois, protecting his territory from Vendôme to Angers and from Angers to Montrichard, he had more than a hundred castles, donjons, and abbeys constructed. These numerous pious foundations, however, followed his many acts of violence against the church.

Fulk died in 1040 in Metz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_III_of_Anjou


Geoffrey II of Anjou

He was bellicose and fought against the Duke of Aquitaine, the Count of Blois, and the Duke of Normandy. During his twenty-year reign he especially had to face the ambitions of the Bishop of Mans, Gervais de Château-du-Loir, but he was able to maintain his authority over the County of Maine. Even before the death of his father in 1040, he had extended his power up to Saintonge, where he founded the Abbey aux Dames.

"Geoffrey, count of the Angevins, nicknamed Martel, a treacherous man in every respect, frequently inflicted assaults and intolerable pressure on his neighbors." So records the first mention of this man in "The Gesta Normannorum Ducum". "The chronology of Duke William's campaigns against Count Geoffrey of Anjou (1040-60) is still a much debated subject." So says the footnote in Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts' edition of the Gesta (page 123). "The vague chronological indications of the medieval sources do not permit a precise dating of what most probably are highlights in a more or less continuous warfare during the years 1047-52 at the southern borders of Normandy." (ibid) The Gesta only records the "highlights" of count Geoffrey's military career.

"In alliance with King Henry I of France, Count Geoffrey laid siege to Tours in the winter of 1042-3. After the battle of Nouy on 21 August 1044 Count Theobald I of Blois-Chartres (1039-89) was taken prisoner by [Count Geoffrey], to whom he surrendered Tours with Chinon and Langeais, excluding, however, the monastery of Marmoutier." (ibid)

Henry and Geoffrey became estranged after this, and were not reconciled again until c. 1052, when their names appear together in a charter of August of that year. This is in conjunction with the rebellion of William of Talou against the duke of Normandy, and Count Geoffrey's taking possession of the city of Mans (shortly after 26 March 1051).

Allied once again with King Henry, Count Geoffrey assaulted Normandy and seized the towns of Domfront and Alençon, evidently with the help of treachery within. Duke William laid siege to Domfront, which resisted his efforts to retake it throughout the winter of 1052. And it was at this point that Talou withdrew from the siege and started his rebellion. Duke William's subsequently rapid retaking of first Alençon and then Domfront drove Count Geoffrey back across the Norman border into Maine.

While Count Geoffrey was off-balance, Duke William laid siege to Talou's castle at Arques. King Henry failed to relieve Arques, and Talou's rebellion had failed and he was exiled by late 1053. In late January, early February of 1054, Count Geoffrey and King Henry together invaded Normandy and marched down the Seine toward Rouen. The King had divided his army and sent the other wing through eastern Normandy under the command of his brother Eudes, supported by Count Reginald of Clermont, Count Ralph of Montdidier, and Count Guy I of Ponthieu. This army was defeated in a battle near Mortemer. Upon learning of this reverse, King Henry insisted upon beating a hasty retreat out of Normandy, and perforce Count Geoffrey accompanied him.

For the next several years, the war was centered in the County of Maine, with Duke William on the offensive. But King Henry in 1057, "burning to avenge the insult inflicted on him by the duke, summoned Geoffrey, count of Anjou, to prepare a large army for another expedition into Normandy." (GND) This combined effort placed Duke William temporarily on the defensive. He retreated before the invaders as they moved deeper into Normandy. After pentrating to the Bessin, the Franco-Angevin army began to ford the River Dives near the estuary which is tidal. After the king and Count Geoffrey had crossed over, the remainder of their army got stuck on the opposite bank by the incoming tide. Duke William launched a sudden attack and defeated them. King Henry and Count Geoffrey withdrew again from Normandy and never returned. Count Geoffrey continued to offer resistence in Maine against the Norman expansion until his death on 14 November 1060.

An unusual entry in the cartulary of Ronceray describes a dispute over a vineyard seized by Geoffrey Martel and granted to his "wives, or rather concubines, Agnes, Grécie, Adele, and Adelaide. The first wife, Agnes of Burgundy, was the widow of William V of Aquitaine; she and Geoffrey married in 1032, but had divorced by 1050. He then married Grécie of Langeais, but dismissed her to marry Adele, the daughter of Count Odo II of Blois. Later he divorced Adele, and took Grécie back as his wife. His last wife was a German woman named Adelaide.

Despite these marital escapades, Geoffrey died childless, after being made a monk in Saint-Nicolas d'Angers in 1060. He was succeeded by his nephew Geoffrey III of Anjou.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Martel


Anne of Russia

Daughter of Yaroslav I, was Queen of France, as the wife of King Henri I. After the death of his first wife, Mathilde, King Henri had searched the courts of Europe for a suitable bride, but could not locate a princess who was not related to him within illegal degrees of kinship. At last he sent an embassy to distant Kiev, who returned with Anne (also called Agnes or Anna). Anne and Henri were married at the cathedral of Reims, May 19, 1051. They had three sons.

Philippe I, King of France (May 23, 1052 - July 30, 1108. Anne is credited with bringing the name Philippe into the French dynasty. She imported this Greek name (Philo: Love, Hippo: Horse, the one that love horses) from her oriental Christian Orthodox cultural background.

For six years after his death in 1060, she served as regent for their son, Philip, who was 7 at the time of his father's death. She was the first queen of France to serve as regent. Her co-regent was Count Baldwin V of Flanders. Anne was known as a literate woman, rare for the time, but there was some opposition to her as Regent on the grounds that her mastery of French was less than fluent.

A year after the King's death, Anne, acting as Regent, took a passionate fancy for Count Raoul III of Valois and of the Vexin(Raoul III ,Count Valois?), a man whose political ambition encouraged him to repudiate his wife to marry Anne in 1062. Accused of adultery, Raoul's wife appealed to Pope Alexander II, who excommunicated Raoul and Anne. The young king Philippe forgave his mother, which was just as well, since he was to find himself in a very similar predicament in the 1090s. Raoul died in September 1074, at which time Anne returned to the French court. She died in 1075, was buried at Villiers Abbey, La-Ferte-Alais, Essonne, France and her obits were celebrated on September 5.


Ansgise

Ansegisel (also Ansgise) (c.602-before 679) was the son of Saint Arnulf, bishop of Metz and his wife Doda. He served King Sigbert III of Austrasia (634-656), son of King Dagobert I (629-639), as a duke (Latin dux, a military leader) and domesticus. He married sometime after 639 to Saint Begga, the daughter of Pepin of Landen. They had the following children:

Pippin II (635 or 640-December 16, 714), mayor of the palace of Austrasia

Martin, count of Laon

Clotilda of Heristal (650-699), married King Theodoric III of Neustria

He was killed sometime before 679, slain in a feud by his enemy Gundewin.


Hermengarde d' Anjou

'a formidable woman who became the real ruler of Brittany'

Ermengarde of Anjou, daughter of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Hildegarde de Beaugency, was successively Duchess of Aquitaine, Brittany, and the patron of Fontevraud Abbey. She was born in Angers around 1067.

Having lost her mother at a young age, she received a good education and grew to be pious and concerned about religious reform, especially over the struggle against the secular appropriation of church property.

Her first wedding, in 1089, was to the young duke and poet, William IX of Aquitaine, but he had the marriage annulled three years later. He was quite a philanderer and his affairs infuriated his wife. It was said she was quite crazy during those days.

In 1093, her father married her to Duke Alan IV of Brittany, probably to secure an alliance against Normandy, now controlled by William the Conqueror’s son, Robert Curthose. Her husband left for Palestine in 1096 to take part in the First Crusade and she assumed control of the Duchy from then until 1101.

She spent little time in Rennes or the west of Brittany, preferring Nantes and the Saumur region. Influenced by Robert of Arbrissel, she approved the expansion of the abbey at Fontevraud, to which she withdrew on two occasions. An admirer of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, she favoured the creation of Cistercian abbeys.

In 1095, she returned to Brittany to support the new duke, her young son Conan III. In 1117, at the age of 50, she accompanied her son on Crusade.

She returned to Palestine ten years later, and some historians believe her life ended in Jerusalem at the convent of Saint Anne. But obituary lists at the abbey of Saint-Saveur de Redon record a date of death in 1147 in Redon where her husband was buried.

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Gausberto I de Ampurias

Gausbert (d.931) was the count of Ampurias and Roussillon from 915 until he died. He was the son of Sunifred II and brother of Bencion.

With the death of his father, the counties passed to him and Bencion, but Bencion died in 916 and all the inheritance fell to Gausbert. In 924, he participated in a campaign with the margrave of Gothia against invading Moors. In 927, he rebuilt Saint Martin of Ampurias.

He married Trudegarda, with whom he had the following issue:

Sunifred, died young

Gausfred I (d.991), his successor

Ermengarda (d.994), married Oliba Cabreta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gausbert


Andras I, King of Hungary

Andrew I (born c. 1016, died c. 1061), was King of Hungary 1047-61. He was from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty, and born as son of Vazul, former lord of Gran and regions much corresponding today Slovakia. Hungarian tribal society was not in favor of primogeniture, but of agnatic seniority as order of succession, which made other males of the Arpad dynasty, cadet lines, dangerous to the incumbent king. Andrew's branch of the dynasty had long been rivals to the elder branch, which Stephen I of Hungary and his father belonged to. For the recent half a century, the rivalry had centered much on conflict between paganism and christianism, represented (and utilized), respectively, by the younger and elder branch. The elder branch went extinct in male line in 1038, which opened new opportunities to the younger, surviving male line; because Hungarian clannish society yet believed in inheritance through male line. Stephen's female-line successors Aba Samuel and Peter Urseolo felt necessary to suppress the rival family. Andrew's mother was probably the woman who reportedly was a daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria.

A period of dynastic struggle following the death of Stephan I in 1038 was concluded after the death of Peter Urseolo, as Andrew I took the Hungarian throne for his branch of the Árpad dynasty.

Tihany abbey, burial place of Andrew.Under Sámuel Abas rule Andrew and his brothers Levente and Béla had been exiled from Hungary, fearing for their lives. First having fled to Bohemia, they continued to Poland where Béla married into that royal family. Andrew and Levente, possibly feeling overshadowed by their brother, continued on, settling in Kiev and Andrew married Anastasia, a daughter of Grand Duke Yaroslav the Great.

Their return to Hungary in 1046 sparked the Vatha pagan rising, where Andrew through pagan support managed to wrest the crown from Peter Urseolo. Andrew was crowned in 1047 and had strengthened his rule by military success, in part thanks to pagan support. Nevertheless, he continued the policies of christianization that had previously been in place. As a Hungarian king Andrew still remained allies with his former hosts in exile, the Kievan Rus'.

The relation to the Holy Roman Empire remained tense. The previous king, Peter Urseolo, had been a close ally of Emperor Henry III, and during his latter reign, Hungary had been part of the Holy Roman Empire. Henry now undertook two largely unsuccessful campaigns against Hungary, in 1051 and again in 1052. Andrew then formed an alliance in 1053 with Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria, supporting thus the opposition against the emperor.

In 1057 Andrew tried to ensure his succession, by having his five-year-old son Solomon crowned as king. This proved unsuccessful, as several years later Andrew's brother Béla I managed to unseat Andrew and gain the throne, if only for a short time.

Andrew and his family are buried in the Tihany abbey, founded by him on the shores of Lake Balaton.

His son never properly managed to establish himself as king; the younger line, that of Bela's, winning gradually, particularly because neither of his sons (Solomon and David) did not leave surviving male descent. Andrew's daughter married a duke of the Czech, however descent continuing only through her daughter, who married Wladyslaw I, Duke of Poland and became mother of Boleslaw III, Duke of Poland (1085-1138) (great-grandson of Andrew). Thus, Andrew's line continues in the Piast dynasty and not in Hungary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_I


Fulk IV

Fulk IV of Anjou (1043–1109), also known as Fulk le Réchin, was count of Anjou from 1068 to 1109. The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "sullen", and "heroic".

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.

When Geoffrey Martel died without direct heirs he left Anjou to his nephew Geoffrey III of Anjou, Fulk le Réchin's older brother. Fulk fought with his brother, whose ruled was deemed incompetent, and captured him in 1067. Under pressure from the Church he released Geoffrey. The two brothers soon fell to fighting again, and the next year Geoffrey was again imprisoned by Fulk, this time for good.

Substantial territory was lost to Angevin control due to the difficulties resulting from Geoffrey's poor rule and the subsequent civil war. Saintonge was lost, and Fulk had to give the Gâtinais to Philip I of France to placate the king.

Much of Fulk's rule was devoted to regaining control over the Angevin baronage, and to a complex struggle with Normandy for influence in Maine and Brittany.

In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers, though the authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed. If he did write it, it is one of the first medieval works of history written by a layman.

Fulk may have married as many as five times; there is some doubt regarding two of the marriages. His first wife was Hildegarde de Beaugency. After her death, in 1070, he married Ermengarde de Borbon, and then possibly Orengarde de Châtellailon. Both these were repudiated (Ermengarde de Borbon in 1075 and Orengarde de Chatellailon in 1080), possibly on grounds of consanguinity.

Next he married Bertrade de Montfort, who apparently left him for Philip I of France. Finally, he may have married Mantie, daughter of Walter of Brienne. This marriage also ended in divorce, in 1087.

(1089, Fulk le Rechin, or the Quarreller, Count of Anjou, captivated by her beauty, determined to repudiate his third wife, Arengarde, daughter of Isambert, Lord of Chalet-dillon, whom he had only married, 21st January, 1087, in order to obtain the hand of the lovely Bertrade. At this moment, the Manceaux making a fresh effort to throw off the yoke of the Normans, Duke Robert Court-heuse entreated the Count of Anjou to assist him in their repression, which he promised to do on condition that the Duke would obtain for him the hand of Bertrade. On Robert's application to the Count of Evreux, he was answered: "Not unless you will restore me Noyon- sur-Andelle, Gassai, Cravant, Ecouchi, and the other lands of Raoul, my paternal uncle, who was facetiously called 'Tete d'Ane,' on account of his head of hair, and to my nephew, William de Breteuil, Pont Saint Pierre; for Robert de Gassai, son of Raoul, has made me his sole heir." The Duke accepted the condition, and restored to him the whole of these estates, except that of Ecouchi, which was held by Gerrard de Gournay, who was of the same family. The beautiful young Bertrade was, therefore, literally sold at that price to the profligate and detestable Count of Anjou, whom she subsequently fled from with the French King, Philip I, -- the natural consequence of such an unholy union, and the guilt of which lies on the head of her uncle. http://genealogy.patp.us/conq/evreux.shtml)

He had two sons. The eldest (a son of Ermengarde de Borbon), Geoffrey Martel II, Geoffrey IV of Anjou, ruled jointly with his father for some time, but died in 1106. The younger (a son of Bertrade de Montfort) succeeded as Fulk V.

He also had a daughter (by Hildegarde de Beaugency), Ermengarde, who married William VII the Young, count of Poitou and duke of Aquitaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_IV_of_Anjou


The oft-married Count Fulk IV of Anjou was married to the mother of his son in 1089, when the lovely Bertrade caught his eye. According to the chronicler John of Marmoutier: "The lecherous Fulk then fell passionately in love with the sister of Amaury of Montfort, whom no good man ever praised save for her beauty. For her sake, he divorced the mother of Geoffrey II Martel..."

Bertrade and Fulk were married, and they became the parents of a son, Fulk, but in 1092 Bertrade left her husband and took up with King Philippe. Philippe married her on May 15, 1092, despite the fact that they both had spouses living. He was so enamoured of Bertrade that he refused to leave her even when threatened with excommunication. Pope Urban II did excommunicate him in 1095, and Philippe was prevented from taking part in the First Crusade. Astonishingly, Bertrade persuaded Philippe and Fulk to be friends.


Blanche of Anjou

She is listed as both:

The daughter of Foulques II d' Anjou and the wife of William II of Provence whose father is William I by some counts and Bozon Count of Provence (d 908) by others.

The daughter of Geoffroy I Count of Anjou, the son of Foulques II d' Anjou , and the wife of William I of Provence, as in above, by some counts, or whose father is Boso_II Count of Avignon and Arles by other counts, circa 900, son of Rotbald.

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