Fulk V d'Anjou, Comte d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem[1, 2]
Abt 1092 - 1144 (~ 52 years)
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Name Fulk V d'Anjou Arms of the Kingdom of Jerusalem Suffix Comte d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem Born Abt 1092 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France 
Gender Male Title 1109 Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France Count of Anjou Title 1110 Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Count of Maine (jure uxoris) Military 1128 [3] Fulk took the cross. 
Crusaders
First (1095–1099); Second (1147–1149); Third or the Kings' Crusade (1189–1192); Forth (1202–1204); Fifth (1213–1221); Sixth (1228); Barons' (1239); Seventh (1248-1254); Eighth (1270); and Ninth (1271-1272).Title 14 Sep 1131 Jerusalem [4] King of Jerusalem Died 13 Nov 1144 Acre, Israel Buried Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem 
Church of the Holy Sepulchre Notes - "Fulk V, Count of Anjou from 1109, was by his first wife, Aremburga, heiress of Maine, the father of Count Geoffrey the Fair. Fulk 'led an honorable life, ruling his territory wisely.' He was 'an upright and virtuous man of orthodox faith [who] achieved a glorious and excellent reputation that was second to none.' According to William of Tyre, Fulk was 'a ruddy man, faithful and gentle, affable and kind, a powerful prince, and very successful ruling his people; an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs.'"
[5] - FULK, king of Jerusalem (b. 1092), was the son of Fulk IV., count of Anjou, and his wife Bertrada (who ultimately deserted her husband and became the mistress of Philip I. of France). He became count of Anjou in 1109, and considerably added to the prestige of his house. In particular he showed himself a doughty opponent to Henry I. of England, against whom he continually supported Louis VI. of France, until in 1127 Henry won him over by betrothing his daughter Matilda to Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet. Already in 1120 Fulk had visited the Holy Land, and become a close friend of the Templars. On his return he assigned to the. order of the Templars an annual subsidy, while he also maintained two knights in the Holy Land for a year. In 1128 he was preparing to return to the East, when he received an embassy from Baldwin II., king of Jerusalem, who had no male heir to succeed him, offering his daughter Melislnda in marriage, with the right of eventual succession to the kingdom. Fulk readily accepted the offer; and in 1129 he came and was married to Melisinda, receiving the towns of Acre and Tyre as her dower. In , at the age of thirty-nine, he became king of Jerusalem. His reign is not marked by any considerable events: the kingdom which had reached its zenith under Baldwin II., and did not begin to decline till the capture of Edessa in the reign of Baldwin III., was quietly prosperous under his rule. In the beginning of his reign he had to act as regent of Antioch, and to provide a husband, Raymund of Poitou, for the infant heiress Constance. But the great problem with which he had to deal was the progress of the atabeg Zengi of Mosul. In he was beaten near Barin, and escaping into the fort was surrounded and forced to capitulate. A little later, however, he greatly improved his position by strengthening his alliance with the vizier of Damascus, who also had to fear the progress of Zengi (o); and in this way he was able to capture the fort of Banias, to the N. of Lake Tiberias. Fulk also strengthened the kingdom on the south; while his butler, Paganus,' planted the fortress of Krak to the south of the Dead Sea, and helped to give the kingdom an access towards the Red Sea, he himself constructed Blanche Garde and other forts on the S.W. to overawe the garrison of Ascalon, which was still held by the Mahommedans, and to clear the road towards Egypt. Twice in Fulk's reign the eastern emperor, John Comnenus, appeared in northern Syria (t and ); but his coming did not affect the king, who was able to decline politely a visit which the emperor proposed to make to Jerusalem. In x he died, leaving two sons, who both became kings, as Baldwin III. and Amalric I. Fulk continued the tradition of good statesmanship and sound churchmanship which.Baldwin I. and Baldwin II. had begun. William of Tyre speaks of him as a fine soldier, an able politician, and a good son of the church, and only blames him for partiality to his friends, and a forgetfulness of names and faces, which placed him at a disadvantage and made him too dependent on his immediate intimates. Little, perhaps, need be made of these censures: the real fault of Fulk was his neglect to envisage the needs of the northern principalities, and to head a combined resistance to the rising power of Zengi of Mosul.
His reign in Jerusalem is narrated by R. R6hricht (Geschichte des KSnigreichs Jerusalem, Innsbruck, ), and has been made the subject of a monograph by G. Dodu (De Fulconis Hierosolymitani regno, Paris, t894). (E. BR.) [6]
Person ID I11149 Dickinson Last Modified 15 Jan 2018
Father Fulk IV de Château-Landon, Count d'Anjou, b. 1042, d. 14 Apr 1109 (Age 67 years) Relationship Birth Mother Bertrade de Montfort, Queen Consort of the Franks, b. Abt 1070, d. Aft 1117 (Age ~ 48 years) Relationship Birth Married 1089 Family ID F3155 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Ermenburge du Maine, Ctss du Maine, b. Abt 1096, d. 14 Jan 1126 (Age ~ 30 years) Married Abt 1109 Children 1. Alice-Matilda d'Anjou, Dss of Normandy, b. Abt 1110, County of Anjou, France , d. 1154, Fontevraud, France (Age ~ 44 years) [Birth]+ 2. Geoffroy V d'Anjou, Count of Anjou and Maine, b. 24 Aug 1113, Normandy, France , d. 7 Sep 1151, Château du Loire, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 38 years) [Birth]+ 3. Sibylle d'Anjou, Ctss of Flanders, b. Between 1112 and 1116, d. 1165, Palestine (Age ~ 53 years) [Birth]4. Helie d'Anjou, Comte du Maine, d. 15 Jan 1151 [Birth] Last Modified 5 Sep 2017 Family ID F3152 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Melisende of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem, b. 1105, Sanlıurfa, Turkey , d. 11 Sep 1161, Jerusalem (Age 56 years) Married 1129 [4, 7] Children 1. Baldwin III of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem, b. 1130, d. 10 Feb 1162, Beirut, Lebanon (Age 32 years) [Birth]+ 2. Almaric I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem, b. 1136, d. 11 Jul 1174, Jerusalem (Age 38 years) [Birth]Last Modified 2 Nov 2017 Family ID F463 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- "Fulk V, Count of Anjou from 1109, was by his first wife, Aremburga, heiress of Maine, the father of Count Geoffrey the Fair. Fulk 'led an honorable life, ruling his territory wisely.' He was 'an upright and virtuous man of orthodox faith [who] achieved a glorious and excellent reputation that was second to none.' According to William of Tyre, Fulk was 'a ruddy man, faithful and gentle, affable and kind, a powerful prince, and very successful ruling his people; an experienced warrior full of patience and wisdom in military affairs.'"
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Born - Abt 1092 - Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France 
Title - Count of Anjou - 1109 - Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France 
Title - Count of Maine (jure uxoris) - 1110 - Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France 
Title - King of Jerusalem - 14 Sep 1131 - Jerusalem 
Died - 13 Nov 1144 - Acre, Israel 
Buried - - Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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