Foulques V ""le Jeune" de d’Anjou count of Anjou, king of Jerusalem
- Born: Abt 1092 174
- Marriage: Ermengard du Maine
- Died: 13 Nov 1143, Plains of Acre, Holy Land about age 51 174
- Buried: Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem
Another name for Foulques was Fulk "the Young" Count of Anjou.
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information: 160 Fulk V, the Young, born 1092, died Jerusalem on 10 Nov 1143/4, count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, married, first Erembourg, daughter of Helias, count of Maine, and married, second, Melisende de Rathel on 2 Jun 1129.
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 118:24
• Web Reference:Fulk. , King of Jerusalem and paternal grandfather of Henry II of England, was the son of Count Fulk IV of Anjou and Bertrade de Montfort. He married Erembourg of Maine in abt. 1110. Fulk died in 1143 in Acre by accident during hunting.
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Foulques d'Anjou was the son of Foulques IV "le Réchiin" comte d'Anjou and his fifth wife Bertrade de Montfort. "The Gesta Consulum Andegavorum records that "Fulco" was the son of "Fulco Rechin" and "sororem Amalrici de Monte Forti" [Chronica de Gesta Consulum Andegavorum, Chroniques d'Anjou, p. 140]." Folulques V married Eremburge du Maine, daughter and heiress of Helie de la Flèche comté de Maine and his first wife Mathilde de Château-du-Loir. "Orderic Vitalis names "Eremburgem" as the daughter of "Helias [de Balgenceio]" and his wife "Gervasii de Castro Ligeri...filiam", adding that she married "domini sui filio Fulconi Andegavorum comiti" [Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. III, Liber VIII, XI, p. 332]. The necrology of Angers Cathedral records the death "IV Id Nov" of "Fulco prius Andegavorum comes postea rex Hierusalem" [L'Obituaire de la Cathédrale d'Angers]."
Foulques married Ermengard du Maine, daughter of Helias de la Fleche , Comte du Maine, Lord of Château-du-Loir and Maud de Château-du-Loire. (Ermengard du Maine was born about 1096 in Mans, France.)
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