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FULK NERRA (c. 970-1040)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 294 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FULK NERRA (c. 970-1040) ,
count
  of Anjou, eldest son of
Count
 
Geoffrey
  I., " Grisegonelle" (Grey Tunic) and Adela of Vermandois, was born about 970 and succeeded his father in the countship of Anjou on the 21st of July 987. He was successful in repelling the attacks of the count of
Rennes
  and laying the
foundations
  of the conquest of Touraine (see Anjou). In this connexion he built a
great
  number of strong castles, which has led in modern times to his being called "the
great
  builder." He also founded several religious houses, among them the abbeys of Beaulieu, near Loches (c Ioo7), of Saint-Nicholas at Angers (1020) and of Ronceray at Angers (1028), and, in order to expiate his crimes of violence, made three pilgrimages to the Holy Land (in 1002-1003, c. roo8 and in 1039). On his return from the third of these journeys he died at Metz in
Lorraine
  on the 21st of June 1040: By his first
marriage
 , with Elizabeth, daughter of Bouchard le Venerable, count of Vendome, he had a daughter, Adela, who married Boon of Nevers and transmitted to her children the countship of Vendome. Elizabeth having died in 1000, Fulk married Hildegarde of
Lorraine
 , by whom he had a son,
Geoffrey
  Martel (q.v.), and a daughter Ermengarde, who married Geoffrey, count of Gatinais, and was the
mother
  of Geoffrey " le Barbu " (the Bearded) and of Fulk " le Rechin
(see ANJou).
See Louis Halphen, Le Comte d'Anjou au XI, siecle (Paris, 1906). The
biography
  of Fulk Nerra by Alexandre de Salies, Histoire de Foulques Nerra (Angers, 1874) is confused and uncritical. A very summary
biography
  is given by Celestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, geographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire (3 vols., Paris-Angers, 1874-1878), vol. ii. pp. 189-192, and there is also a sketch in Kate Norgate, England under the Angevin Kings (2 vols., London, 1887), vol. i. ch. iii. (L. H.'')


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