PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou Geoffroy V

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• Differentiator: The nickname "Plantagenet" sometimes used for Geoffrey only became a name for the entire dynasty in later years, and was not used by his immediate descendants, the first appearance of "Plantagenet" as a surname being in the fifteenth century.
• Relation to Me: 27 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine
• Name: Geoffrey V "The Handsome" Plantagenet Count of Plantagenet Anjou
• Name: Geoffrey V Plantagenet
• Name: Geoffroi V le Bon PLANTAGENET
• Death: 7 1151, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; Age: 38
• Death: 7 Sep 1151, Rancé, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France

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Geoffrey V (24 August 1113 – 7 September 1151) — called the Handsome (French: le Bel) and Plantagenet — was the Count of Anjou, Touraine, and Maine by inheritance from 1129 and then Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. By his marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, Geoffrey had a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne and founded the Plantagenet dynastyto which Geoffrey gave his nickname.

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DE WARENNE, Hamelin was born in 1130 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 7 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England; was buried in Lewes District, Sussex, England.

Geoffroy married MATILDA, Empress on 22 May 1127 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Empress (daughter of HENRY, King of England I and PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda) was born on 5 Aug 1102 in Middlesex, England; died on 10 Sep 1169 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. HENRY, II was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France.
2. PLANTAGENET, Guillaume was born on 22 Jul 1136 in Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 30 Jan 1163 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.
3. PLANTAGENET, Geoffrey VI Mantell was born on 3 Jun 1134 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 27 Jul 1157 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.

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• Relation to Me: 28 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: King of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine
• Name: Fulk V

Foulques + DU MAINE, Ermengarde. Ermengarde (daughter of MAINE, Elias Helie of and DECHATEAU DULOIRE, Matilde Countess) was born on 3 Jul 1094 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France; died on 15 Jan 1126 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: Heiress of Maine through her father Helias de la Flèche and of Château-du-Loir through her mother Mathilde de Château-du-Loir, her large holding passed to the Angevin dynasty upon her marriage to Foulques V of Anjou.
• Relation to Me: 28 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Anjou, Queen of Jerusalem
• Name: Ermengarde Ermentrude Du MAINE
• Name: Ermengarde of Maine
• Birth: Abt 1096, Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France

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Died:
Age: 34

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• Differentiator: Fulk may have married as many as five times; there is some doubt regarding the exact number or how many he repudiated.
• Relation to Me: 29 GGF
• Name: le Réchin The nickname by which he is usually referred has no certain translation. Philologists have made numerous very different suggestions, including "quarreler", "rude", "sullen", "surly" and "heroic". He was noted to be " a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits" by Orderic Vitalis.
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 1068 and 1109; Count of Anjou

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In 1096 Fulk wrote an incomplete history of Anjou and its rulers titled Fragmentum historiae Andegavensis or "History of Anjou." The authorship and authenticity of this work is disputed. Only the first part of the history, describing Fulk's ancestry, is still in existance. The second part, supposedly describing Fulk's own rule, has not been recovered. If he did write it, it is one of the first medieval works of history written by a layman.

The younger brother of count Geoffroy III "le Barbu", Fulk rebelled against his brother and captured him in 1067, and then again in 1068, when he imprisoned his brother again (not releasing him until 1096), and assumed control of the Angevin possessions. He persuaded the French king Phillipe I to accept this arrangement by ceding his paternal heritage of Gâtinais to the king. His later years were troubled by rebellion from his elder son Geoffroy (IV) Martel, who predeceased him, and Fulk was succeeded by his second son Foulques V in 1109.

Fulk + MONTFORT, Bertrade of. Bertrade (daughter of DE MONTFORT, Simon I and Living) was born in 1059 in Île-de-France, France; died on 14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: Bertrade, a daughter of Simon I de Montfort, was the center of one of the major scandals of her time. Married to count Fulk IV of Anjou, she was carried off in 1092 by king Philippe I of France, who married her (illegally, as she was still married to Fulk). After years of disputes with the church, which included putting France under an interdict, Philippe finally agreed to have no relations with Bertrade, in 1104. Bertrade continued to use the title of queen, but retired to a monastery after Philippe\'s death in 1108.
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen Consort of the Franks

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Bertrade and Fulk were married,[1] and they became the parents of a son, Fulk, but in 1092 Bertrade left her husband and took up with King Philip I of France. Philip married her on 15 May 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 Philip was prevented from taking part in the First Crusade. Astonishingly, Bertrade persuaded Philip and Fulk to be friends.

Elias married DECHATEAU DULOIRE, Matilde Countess in 1092 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. Matilde (daughter of GERVAISE and EREMBURGE) was born in 1055 in Châteauneuf, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France; died in Mar 1099 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Relation to Me: 29 GGF

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• Relation to Me: 30 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Gâtinais

II + ANJOU, Ermengarde d. Ermengarde (daughter of ANJOU, Fulk III of and Living) was born in 1018 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 18 Mar 1076 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Relation to Me: 30 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Duchess of Burgundy
• Name: She was sometimes known as Ermengarde-Blanche.

Notes:

Married to count Geoffroy of Gâtinais, she was a widow by late 1045 or early 1046 when her mother Hildegarde departed for the Holy Land [Halphen (1906), 293 (act #169); Guillot (1972), 1: 102, n. 453; 2: 159 (act C 242)]. She then became the second wife of duke Robert I of Burgundy, probably not long afterward (since her daughter by that marriage was married in 1067), and died on the same day as her husband, 18 March 1076. As heiress of her brother Geoffroy II Martel, count of Anjou, Ermengarde carried the Angevin possessions to her sons Geoffroy III "le Barbu" and Foulques IV "le Rechin".

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• Differentiator: Finished building the castle at Montfort l'Amaury, the ruins of which still stand today.
• Relation to Me: 30 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Lord of Montfort

Simon + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married DU MAINE, Paula Paule Heiress in 1059 in Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France. Paula was born in 1032 in Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died in 1062 in La Flèche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Relation to Me: 30 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Lord of Château-du-Loir

+ EREMBURGE. died in 1095. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]