_Tertulle Seneschal of the Gastinais_
_Ingelger C of Anjou__________|_Petronille _________________________
_Fulk I "the Red" C of Anjou___|
| | _____________________________________
| |_Adelaide of Gastinais________|_____________________________________
_Fulk II "The Good" C of Anjou_|
| | _____________________________________
| | _Garnier Seigneur de Loches___|_____________________________________
| |_Roscille de Loches____________|
| | _____________________________________
| |_Toscanda ____________________|_____________________________________
_Geoffrey I C of Anjou_|
| | _____________________________________
| | _Berillo I Viscount of Vienne_|_____________________________________
| | _Ratburns I Viscount of Vienne_|
| | | | _Boso I K of Provence________________
| | | |_Ermengarde of Provence_______|_UNKNOWN ____________________________
| |_Geberga ______________________|
| | _____________________________________
| | ______________________________|_____________________________________
| |_Gerberga _____________________|
| | _____________________________________
| |______________________________|_____________________________________
|
|--Fulk III "Nerra" C of Anjou
|
| _Pepin C in Neustria_________________
| _Herbert I C of Vermandois____|_UNKNOWN ____________________________
| _Herbert II C of Vermandois____|
| | | _Adelramn C of Troyes________________
| | |_Liedgarde? of Troyes_________|_____________________________________
| _Robert C of Troyes____________|
| | | _Robert "The Strong" C of Paris______
| | | _Robert I K of France_________|_Adelaide of Tours___________________
| | |_Adela of Paris________________|
| | | _____________________________________
| | |_Adele (Aelis) _______________|_____________________________________
|_Adela of Troyes_______|
| _Thierry II C of Chalon______________
| _Manasses C of Chalon_________|_____________________________________
| _Giselbert D of Burgundy_______|
| | | _Boso I K of Provence________________
| | |_Ermengarde of Provence_______|_UNKNOWN ____________________________
|_Adelaide of Burgundy__________|
| _____________________________________
| ______________________________|_____________________________________
|_Ermengarde ___________________|
| _____________________________________
|______________________________|_____________________________________
"Not all founders [of monasteries] were known for their kindness. Fulk
of Anjou, plunderer, murderer, robber, and swearer of fale oaths, a truly
terrifying character of fiendish cruelty, founded not one but two large
abbeys. This Fulk was filled with unbridled passion, a temper directed
to extremes. Whenever he had the slightest difference with a neighbor
he rushed upon his lands, ravaging, pillaging, raping, and killing; nothing
could stop him, least of all the commandments of God. This appalling
man had countless crimes upon his conscience, but when seized with a
fit of remorse he abandoned himself to incredible penances. Thus the
very tomb of St. Martin, whose monks he had ill-treated, saw him
prostrate, with bare feet and in penitent's dress; and four times during
his life he went to Jerusalem as a devout pilgrim, treading half-naked
the sorrowful road of the passion while two of his servants flogged him
until the blood flowed, crying, "Lord, receive thy perjured Fulk!" "
--- Richard Erdoes, *AD 1000: Living on the Brink of Apocalypse*,
1988 (reprint 1995) p 12.
Nathaniel Taylor
soc.genealogy.medieval on 8 Dec 1996:
Subject: Re: FULK THE BLACK
"Fulk is spoken of elsewhere with admiration. R. W. Southern, The
Making of the Middle Ages, pp. 83-86, calls him (86) a 'man of note' and
a
'pioneer in the art of feudal government,' particularly in the building
and
strategic use of stone castles. Bernard Bachrach's biography of Fulk is
more openly admiring in an Ayn Rand sort of way. Fulk may not have been
particularly sensitive, but a fitting progenitor for the likes of Henry
II &
Edward I."
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