Fulk
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Fulk was the name of several counts of Anjou:
The name can also refer to:
- Fulk I of AnjouFulk I of AnjouFulk I of Anjou , called the Red, was son of viscount Ingelger of Angers and Resinde "Aelinde" D'Amboise, was 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...
(about 870 – 942) - Fulk II of AnjouFulk II of AnjouFulk II of Anjou , son of Fulk the Red, was count of Anjou from 942 to his death.He was often at war with the Bretons. He seems to have been a man of culture, a poet and an artist. He was succeeded by his son Geoffrey Greymantle....
(died 958) - Fulk III of AnjouFulk III of AnjouFulk III , called Nerra after his death, was Count of Anjou from 21 July 987 to his death. He was the son of Geoffrey Greymantle and Adelaide of Vermandois....
(972 – 1040) - Fulk IV of AnjouFulk IV of AnjouFulk IV , called le Réchin, was the Count of Anjou from 1068 until his death. The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation...
(1043 – 1109) - Fulk V of Anjou (1089/1092 - 1143), also King of Jerusalem
The name can also refer to:
- Fulk FitzWarinFulk FitzWarinFulk FitzWarin was an English nobleman turned outlaw from Whittington Castle in Shropshire. The historical Fulk, or Fulk III FitzWarin, was a Marcher Lord who rebelled against King John from 1200 to 1203 over his familial right to the estate of Whittington...
, medieval outlaw - Fulk the Venerable (882-900), Archbishop of Rheims
- Folquet de MarselhaFolquet de MarselhaFolquet de Marselha, alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse came from a Genoese merchant family who lived in Marseille...
(c. 1150 – 1231), also known as Foulques de Toulouse and Fulk of Toulouse, troubadour and bishop - Fulk de Vendôme (1056–1066), Count of Vendôme
- Fulcher of ChartresFulcher of ChartresFulcher of Chartres was a chronicler of the First Crusade. He wrote in Latin.- Life :His appointment as chaplain of Baldwin of Boulogne in 1097 suggests that he had been trained as a priest, most likely at the school in Chartres...
(born around 1059, died in or after 1127) - Fulk of AngoulêmeFulk of AngoulêmeFulk of Angoulême was the eleventh count of Angoulême. Fulk was a fourth generation descendant of Count Arnold of Angoulême. He was the son of Count Geoffrey of Angoulême and Petronille De Archiac...
(died 1087 or 1089) - Fulk of GuînesFulk of GuînesFulk of Guînes was the second son of Baldwin I, count of Guînes in the Boulonnais. He was related to the counts of Boulogne. He probably accompanied Eustace III of Boulogne and Robert II of Flanders on the First Crusade. In 1110 he obtained from his relative, King Baldwin I, the lordship of Beirut...
(died 1125) - Patriarch Fulk of JerusalemPatriarch Fulk of JerusalemFulk or Fulcher of Angoulême was the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1146 to his death in 1157.Fulk came from Angoulême. According to William of Tyre, he was "religious and God-fearing, possessed of little learning, but a faithful man and a lover of discipline." In France he had been abbot of...
(fl. 1131 - died 1157) - Fulk of PaviaFulk of PaviaFulk of Pavia was born at Piacenza, Italy in 1164 and died 1229. Fulk's parents were Scottish. He was appointed to a canonry in Piacenza. Then, after his studies in Paris, he became archpriest and bishop of Piacenza....
(1164 – 1229), bishop and saint - Fulk of NeuillyFulk of NeuillyFulk of Neuilly was a French preacher of the twelfth century, and priest of Neuilly-sur-Marne. He preached the Fourth Crusade.A priest at Neuilly from 1191, he attended the lectures of Peter the Chanter in Paris. He began to preach, and gained a reputation for piety and eloquence. An invitation...
(died 1201), preacher of the Fourth Crusade - Fulk BassetFulk BassetFulk Basset was archbishop of Dublin, and was the elder brother of John de Sandford who was also archbishop at one time.He is called Fulk de Sandford and also Fulk Basset owing to his relationship to the Bassets...
(died 1271), Bishop of London - Foulques de VillaretFoulques de VillaretFoulques de Villaret , a native of Languedoc-Roussillon, France, was the 25th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, succeeding his paternal uncle Guillaume de Villaret in 1305. His uncle had done much to foster his early career in the Order...
(died 1327), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller