Seipp Family Genealogy:Information about Fulk V "le Jeune", Count of Anjou
Fulk V "le Jeune", Count of Anjou (b. 1092, d. November 10, 1143)
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Fulk V "le Jeune", Count of Anjou4891, 4892 was born 1092 in of Anjou, France4892, and died November 10, 1143 in Jerusalem, Israel4892.He married Ermengarde (Ermentrude) Du Maine on July 11, 1110 in France4892, daughter of Seigneur de la Flèche Helias, Count of Maine.
Notes for Fulk V "le Jeune", Count of Anjou:Fulk "le Jeun" (the Younger) became King of Jerusalem in 1131 on the death of Baldwin II, his father-in-law by his second marriage. Fulk is buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
The Crusaders set up the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem after killing many thousands of the Arab and Jewish inhabitants of the area.At its greatest extent under Fulk "le Jeun", the Kingdom comprised most of present day Israel and part of Syria.Muslim counterattack steadily shrank the size of the crusading kingdom.In 1187, Jerusalem was retaken by by Saladin.Eventually, the last Christian stronghold at Acre surrendered in 1291 and the Crusaders departed from the Holy Land.
Fulk married first circa 1108 to Erembourge (died in 1126), heiress of Maine, daughter of Helias, Seigneur de la Flèche, Count of Maine.
Fulk and Erembourge had the following children:
Geoffrey Plantagenet
Isabella or Mathilda who married William the Aetheling, Duke of Normandy who was the only legitimate son of King Henry Beauclerc of England.William drowned when the White Ship was wrecked on the deadly rock. A boat was launched and William was rowed to safety. The cries of his half-sister Maud, Countess of Perche, induced him to return to the wreck where they sank together. This was considered by some to be punishment for Henry's sins of lust in having so many illegitimate offspring.He had four legitemate children and at least twenty-five illegitimate children.
Fulk "le Jeun" married second on June 2, 1129 to Mélesinde, daughter of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem.On the death of Baldwin II in 1131, Fulk "le Jeun" became King of Jerusalem.
1092-1143, Latin king of Jerusalem (1131-43), count of Anjou (1109-29) as Fulk V, great-grandson of Fulk Nerra. He journeyed (1120) to the Holy Land as a pilgrim and returned there in 1129, making his son, Geoffrey Plantagenet, count of Anjou as Geoffrey IV. Having taken as his new wife Melisende, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, he succeeded his father-in-law in 1131. Fulk’s reign was disturbed by dissensions among the Latin princes and by the raids of the Turks, whose prisoner he was for a time in 1137. He was succeeded as king of Jerusalem by his son by Melisende, Baldwin III.
More About Fulk V "le Jeune", Count of Anjou:
Ancestral File Number: 8WKK-4W.4892
Burial: Church Of Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel.4892
More About Fulk V "le Jeune", Count of Anjou and Ermengarde (Ermentrude) Du Maine:
Marriage: July 11, 1110, France.4892
Children of Fulk V "le Jeune", Count of Anjou and Ermengarde (Ermentrude) Du Maine are:
- +Geoffrey V "the Fair" Plantagenet, b. August 24, 1113, Anjou, France4892, d. September 07, 1151, Chateau, , France4892.