Living

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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".

Family/Spouse: GEOFFREY, II. II died between 1043 and 1046. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermengarde married France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: ROBERT, I. I (son of FRANCE, Robert II of and ARLES, Constance of) was born in 1011; died on 21 Mar 1076. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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

Notes:

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.

Family/Spouse: 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 29 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Duchess of Gascony and Aquitaine.

Hildegarde married PIERRE, Guillaume VIII in Sep 1068 in Gironde, Gironde, Aquitaine, France. Guillaume (son of WILLIAM, V and AGNES) was born in 1025; died on 25 Sep 1086 in Chizé, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Family/Spouse: 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Though his political and military achievements have a certain historical importance, he is best known as the earliest troubadour[1] — a vernacular lyric poet in the Occitan language — whose work survived.
• Relation to Me: 28 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou
• Name: William IX Aquitaine

Notes:

An anonymous 13th-century vida of William remembers him thus:

The Count of Poitiers was one of the most courtly men in the world and one of the greatest deceivers of women. He was a fine knight at arms, liberal in his womanizing, and a fine composer and singer of songs. He traveled much through the world, seducing women.

In a striking departure from the typical attitude toward women in the period, William seems to have held at least one woman in particularly high esteem, composing several poems in homage to this woman, who he refers to as midons (master):[8]

Every joy must abase itself,
and every might obey
in the presence of Midons, for the sweetness of her welcome,
for her beautiful and gentle look;
and a man who wins to the joy of her love
will live a hundred years.
The joy of her can make the sick man well again,
her wrath can make a well man die,

His frankness, wit and vivacity caused scandal and won admiration at the same time. He is among the first Romance vernacular poets of the Middle Ages, one of the founders of a tradition that would culminate in Dante, Petrarch, and François Villon. Ezra Pound mentions him in Canto VIII:

And Poictiers, you know, Guillaume Poictiers,
had brought the song up out of Spain
with the singers and viels...

In Spirit of Romance Pound also calls William IX "the most 'modern' of the troubadours":

Birth:
Poitiers, Aquitaine, France

Guillaume married MAUDE, Philippa in 1094 in France. Philippa (daughter of WILLIAM, IV and Living) was born on 22 Oct 1073 in Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comté, France; died on 28 Nov 1118 in Abbey Fontevrault, Aquitaine, France; was buried in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]